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
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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
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