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About The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip. (Portland, Or.) 1923-1927 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1924)
FEBRUARY, 1924 3 THE UNITED AMERICAN Own Your Home! HT HE MAN who decides that he will own his home and sets to work to accomplish that end, has made a new declaration of independence that will mean for him a greater measure of freedom than he has ever known before. The “Own Your Home” idea is not modern real estate deal ers’ propaganda, it is the idea upon which better citizenship is built. To own your home means a greater measure of happiness. The American founders set this idea in motion and America’s greatest achievement is its mil lion homes. There are agencies which have greatly assisted home building and developments will come along this line with new and greater demand. Building associations have, in the past, helped many thousands to own homes on a basis entailing little or no greater obligations than those which the rent-payer must meet every month. For some things a family can efford to go into debt. To pos sess a home is one of them, espe cially under present and prob able future conditions. The community, the state and the nation could employ their credit to no better purpose than by financing home owning. It will not be long, let us hope, until revolving building funds will be provided, as in some of the Eu ropean countries. Home owning, besides its ob vious moral and social dividends, is economic. It keeps down the repair bill. It gets rid of the loss from vacancies that a land lord must count on. It cuts out commissions and expenses. Ev ery large city wastes many thou sands monthly because nearly ninety per cent of the population are renters, and the cost is cu mulative. No better undertak ing can be stimulated than the undertaking of home building— not only the roof-tree, the edifice — but the institution within — the greatest and best influence for advancement, for good and for happiness and consequently our nation’s best school of citi zenship. AM ERICAN A Magazine of Good Citizenship The Recognized Americanization Journal For Oregon and the 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 Vol. 2 vo?umoOU8 20 February, 1924 Number 5 i CONTENTS 3 3 1 EDITORIAL SUBJECTS— Bridging the Chasm; A Responsibility That Rests Heavily on America; Invalid Arguments Pro and Con for a Restricted Immigration; An International Emigration Conference; Pro tection Through Nationality or Racial Strength; The Terrible Tale of Booze and Oil....... ..................................................................10-14 AMERICA’S PLEA FOR CONSERVATION OF THE NATION’S MATERIAL RESOURCES ........... 1 OWN YOUR HOME............................................... 3 ENDANGERING PUBLIC SAFETY IN AMERICA................................... 5-7 MORE WOMEN THAN MEN COME FROM HUNGARY........................... 7 THE USE OF CORRECT ENGLISH AS A VEHICLE TO PRO GRESS IN CITIZENSHIP.................................................................... 8-9 PAUL REVERE’S RIDE...................................................... ».......................... 9 By Longfellow. THE IMMIGRANT PILGRIM FROM THE RUSSIAN STEPPES........ 15-18 (The Interpreter). A BIT OF NEWSPAPER VERSE........................................................ f.... .19 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. >iuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii|l|||||||||||||||||||l|l|||ll|||||l||||||||ll||||||||||||l|||||||||||||||||||||||in^