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About The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip. (Portland, Or.) 1923-1927 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1923)
JULY, 1923 THE WESTERN AMERICAN 3 Americanization! | I I I i I I I I I | | |! If i II 11 |l li 11 I| I | II ll |l li 11 I I; I I I l| B II 'THE MOVEMENT of Ameri- 1 canization is today beyond comparison the greatest single cause in America, holding the attention of statesman and ar tisan, thinking men and women alike, throughout this land. It holds the embodiment of the hopes, the visions and dreams of the American fathers, expressed in three words—AMERICAN NATIONAL UNITY. While restrictive immigration measures will limit greatly the menace of an unassimilable alien influx, possibly for some years to come, there is meanwhile for every right minded honest American, willing to serve his country, a place in the Ameri canization movement. This move ment is designed to bridge the chasm between the people of America and the millions of aliens living in isolated groups, speaking foreign tongues and constituting separate entities having no interest in common with the people of this land, ex cept the American dollar. What America is to be tomor- row depends more than anything else on the support, we in sub- stance and service shall render the Americanization movement, through which American fellow- ship is being extended for unsel- fish and helpful service to the foreign born among us who are truly characterized as “the strangers within our gates.” While the government. is wrestling with the problem of setting a nationally sustained machinery in motion to take up the slack and institute means and methods of educating, as- similating and bringing into ac- ceptable citizenship the people of foreign birth who are building their homes among us, the peo- pie of the respective states must see their duty clear, and co ordinate their forces with the government for state activities of Americanization, properly planned and executed by trained men and women who are willing to serve in the movement. There are great needs in our commonwealth, but there are none greater than the need of an all American participation in a state-wide movement of genuine and heartfelt Americanization. S a ------ > 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 July, 1923 | | Oregon H. J. LANGOE, Editor Vol. 1 volume0“8 19 | | I Number 10 CONTENTS EDITORIAL SUBJECTS— A Suggestion for a Practical Plan of Americanization; None But “Americanized” Foreign Born; The Glassblower From Sweden ............... 10-12 AMERICANIZATION.................................. 3 UNSOLVED PROBLEMS OF AMERICANIZATION.................... 5 CHARITABLE TOWARDS OTHERS WHILE NEGLECTING OUR OWN 8 FORCES OPPOSED TO A RESTRICTIVE IMMIGRATION POLICY:... 9 RELATIONS OF SCHOOL AND SOCIAL AGENCIES TO IMMIGRANT EDUCATION................................................... By H. Ralph Davis ..13 THE PATRIOTISM OF A FIRST GENERATION AMERICAN.............17 By E. C. Lindemann. United States trade mark, , which was applied for on October 30th, 1922, under serial number 171,380, was granted by the Patent Office at Washington, D. C., according to Act of February 20th, 1905, under registra tion of July 17th, 1923. The exclusive rights to use the publication title “The Western American” in the United States, has thereby been granted this magazine under trade mark registration entry number 170,675. 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 al 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.
