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About The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip. (Portland, Or.) 1923-1927 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1923)
AUGUST, 1923 THE UNITED AMERICAN Love for America! your life began a new unfolding, here you found an opportunity to live a richer and better life. The foreign born that have come from wrecked and war- torn Europe during the last de cade and obtained citizenship in America should have any num ber of reasons for rejoicing in their new allegiance. Maybe you took your oath of allegiance many years ago. Do you remember what you prom ised ? Have you been sincere and constant in your faith, or did you, perhaps, forget—while you continued to follow the beaten old trail of nationality in terests, in club, lodge and so ciety, where rarely a kindly thought of the new homeland found expression? Are you liv ing your allegiance today? Do you measure your acts— in your work, in your business and when you vote—in conform ity with the obligations you as sumed in citizenship? If you have little praise to offer of and for America, the chances are that you do not measure up. You may have good reasons to look askance at the fellow who proclaims himself a one hun dred per cent American because he was born here. Birth does not make a man a hundred per cent American. Only intelligent and tolerant citizenship does. If you live one hundred per cent for the principles in your citi zenship then you are a one hun dred per cent American of per haps far purer strain than the man who is loud in his self- praise but has failed to live the principles characterizing the true America. The fifty-fifty citizen who lives in his native land atmos phere within the borderland of the Stars and Stripes, who has interpreted his citizenship to be a “bill-of-rights” to growl, snarl and kick at everything Ameri can, is an undesirable alien, in spite of his certificate, and though he may live within the safety zone of the moral and legal statutes of our land, he can have no legitimate moral stand ing within our citizenry. 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, Sec-Treasurer Phone Broadway 6600 Offices and Publishing House Labbe Building, 227% Washington Street, Portland, Oregon H. J. LANGOE, Editor VOI. 1 ^ume°U8 19 August, 1923 Number 11 CONTENTS EDITORIAL SUBJECTS— ‘"Hie United American;” Lest We Forget; Towering Above His Antagonists; Greater Immigration Restriction to be Asked; Remedies Against Illegal and Undesirable Immi gration . THE MAN WHO CAN HONESTLY SAY TO THE WORLD: “I AM AN AMERICAN”.............................. •?............... LOVE FOR AMERICA. IMMIGRATION ILLS, TREATMENT AND CURE. INSIDIOUS PROPAGANDA AND A CONFUSING AMERICANISM.... 9 ANCESTORS (Poem) ............................ . ..................... By Ethel Brooks Stillwell in “Youths Companion’ THE CROWDED STREET (Poem).................................. By William Cullen Bryant Subscriptions, twelye 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 a)- 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 thé Act of Congress of March Third, 1879.
