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About The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip. (Portland, Or.) 1923-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1923)
APRIL, 1923 3 THE WESTERN AMERICAN Looking Forward I I I | | I I I | I I I f I I | I | | I I i I I I I I i I I i I I i I I i I ! i! I i I I i I I I II | I I i hl ll I l| | | I II If THE CITIZEN of a commun- ity, state and nation whose chief concern in life is the ac- cumlation of material wealth, who watches every turn of the road and every opportunity to gain an undue advantage and to wrest from his fellowmen and the community of which he is a part that which he may hold by stretching the legal statute, but could not claim according to the moral code, may force the com- munity to recognize him for the influence that is his, but he is by no manner or means a good con- structive citizen. Such citizens are usually the leaders in the community im- provement opposition, pleading the cause of the overburdened taxpayer, taking good care that their own surplus holdings in the community remain suffic- iently dilapidated to hold their assessed valution at the lowest possible figure. Portland’s waterfront pre- sents a case in points When the city of three hundred thou- sand people was as little dreamt of as the present city dweller can fashion Portland a few years hence, a city of a million people, waterfront property along the Willamette had but little value and was acquired for little or no consideration by anyone wanting space for any kind of waterfront commercial purposes. With the city’s growth and development Portland’s water- front holdings have increased in value until every foot of ground represents fabulous figures in point of value to the city and no less in dollars and cents to those whose miserable shacks and di- lapidated docks continue to adorn the very breast of the city, an eye sore to the citizen who is looking forward anxious to make amends for past mis takes and to prepare for the fu ture as well as to all those who enter the city through the har- bor. The Laurgaard waterfront plan is a step in the right direc- tion. The only real opposition is voiced by “the interests” hold- ing waterfront property on the east side of Front street. AMERICAN A Magazine of Good Citizenship The Recognized Americanization Journal For Oregon Pacific Northwest Published Monthly By The Northman Publishing Company . (Incorporated) Officers H. J. Langoe, President B. G. Skulason, Board of Directors G. B. Hegardt B. G. Skulason Phone Broadway 6600 Offices and Publishing House Labbe Building, 227% Washington Street, Portland, and the Sec-Treasurer H. J. Langoe Oregon H. J. LANGOE, Editor Vol. 1 Volume 19 April, 1923 Number 7 CONTENTS AMERICANIZATION FORUM.......................................... CHARAACTER BUILDING IN EDUCATION..................... By Edward 0. Sisson. 5 15 DANGEROUS PASTIME FOR AMERICANS......................................... 1 FINNISH MOULDERS OF NATIONAL IDEALS WORTH EMULATING........................... LOOKING FORWARD .................................. 12 3 MISLEADING CREEDS OF AMERICANISM............................................. 7 TRAINING FOR AMERICANIZATION WORK........................................... 10 Subscriptions, twelve issues, Two Dollars yearly; single copies, twenty cents. Remit by United States Money Order, Express Money Order or Check. In Canada and other foreign countries, belonging to the Postal Union, fifty cents additional should be added. Back numbers, not over three months old, twenty-five cents; more than three months, One Dollar each. Instructions for change of address should be sent two weeks in ad- vance of mailing. Always give old address, as well as the new, and aj- ways write plainly. • The Editor will be glad to consider contributions; but a stamped and addressed envelope must be inclosed, if the return of unavailable manu- scripts is desired. Entered as Second Class Mail Matter in the Post Office at Portland, Oregon under the Act of Congress of March Third, 1879. ’> i | ii | iiii > uiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii II|I|I|III|II||IIIIII||III|II|III|I|I|III||II|II|II|||I||I||IIIIII||||I|||I|||||||IIII|I|I||III|I||I|I|I|I||I||III|I|I||I h ^ | | | | | | | | |