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March, 1923
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THE WESTERN AMERICAN
'Foreigners’ Wanted!
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HE PEOPLE of foreign birth
in America, coming here
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Protestant countries in
Europe, who are now being so­
licited by would-be benefactors
of native birth and urged to
“join” a new secret society of
bright colored robes and mystic
regalia, should consult a good
American, not an advocate of
the order, before taking the step.
The paternal order of this new
organization for the Protestants
of foreign birth, is one, however,
claiming “America for Ameri­
cans of native birth,” with the
proviso that they must be white
and neither Catholic or Jew,
but willing to be “educated” to
I become very intolerant against
both and willing to carry out the
mandates of their rulers and
i| ask no questions in the light of
reason and common sense.
The contrast is too glaring to
permit of any foreign bom be­
coming ensnared who is ac­
customed to think for himself.
Only those who have been ac­
customed in the old world to let
others do their thinking and
ruling for them, are gullible
enough to depart with the ten
pieces of silver, the size of an
American dollar, that they are
being asked by the solicitor to
dig up for the “privilege and the
honor” of becoming members in
this subsidiary institution creat­
ed by the benign grace of its pa­
ternal source.
There is no genuine fibre of
Americanization in this new or­
der any more than in its source.
Humility, tolerance, love of fel­
lowmen, thinking good rather
than evil, are seemingly forgot­
ten in the creeds of these new
and modem groups of sectionali-
zation holding unto themselves,
and whose prime object is war­
ring and vieing with all other
groups for power and control.
Secret societies will never pat­
ent the true gospel of America.
They may have some of it, but
all of it is only to be found out
in the open, where, thank God,
there is no monopoly on the
h creed of good citizenship, where
is the urge is not to hate but to
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J love all who love America what-
h IS i ever their religion, race or na­
tionality may be.
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A Magazine of Good Citizenship
The Recognized Americanization Journal For Oregon and the
Pacific Northwest
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Published Monthly By
The Northman Publishing Company
(Incorporated)
Officers
H. J. Langoe, President
B. G. Skulason, Sec-Treasurer
Board of Directors
B. G. Skulason
H. J. Langoe
Phone Broadway 6600
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Labbe Building, 227 % Washington Street, Portland, Oregon
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H. J. LANGOE, Editor
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VOL 1
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March, 1923
Number 6
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CONTENTS
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EDITORIAL SUBJECTS—
Abuse of the Term Americanization Has a Reaction Unfavorable
to the Cause; Child Delinquency a Direct Result of Lost Parental
Authority ....................................................
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THE TREASONABLE GOSPEL OF A PREJUDICIAL AMERICANISM. 1
“FOREIGNERS” WANTED....................................................................... ..
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SEEDS THAT WILL NOT GROW IN OUR SOIL.....................................
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THE AMERICANIZATION DAY OF THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN
WARS .......................................................
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CHARACTER BUILDING IN EDUCATION
By Edward 0. Sisson
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THE NORTHMEN AS GEOGRAPHERS...,
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CANADA’S HELL ON EARTH......................
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FIVE GREAT ORATORS.................................
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