JULY, 1923
THE WESTERN AMERICAN
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Americanization!
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'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.
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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
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Sec-Treasurer
H. J. Langoe
July, 1923
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H. J. LANGOE, Editor
Vol. 1 volume0“8 19
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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..................................
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UNSOLVED PROBLEMS OF AMERICANIZATION....................
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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
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THE PATRIOTISM OF A FIRST GENERATION AMERICAN.............17
By E. C. Lindemann.
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