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About The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip. (Portland, Or.) 1923-1927 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1925)
FEBRUARY, 1925 THE UNITED AMERICAN Page Eighteen ican official cannot be bribed and that it is a serious some remote mountain. But in our democracy we have thing to do to offer an official money in exchange for need of the presence in every school, near at hand, of special grants and concessions. Had he done this he those who help the teacher and parent to carry this would have been minus all the excellent publicity he highest gift from one generation to another, — the received, which may or may not prove to be a means Muses of our Mother-tongue, the Parts of Speech. It to advancement, but his would have been the satis is their presence that I would invoke for those who faction of knowing that the Austrian colony in teach the adults of alien tongue as well as those who Clifton would now be having a still deeper respect for teach our own children: Uncle Sam, attaching that sense of security, trust 0 Parts of Speech, who preserve our laws so that and confidence which constitutes the foundation upon which honorable and upright citizenship may be built. they are written as on tables of stone; who remember what is forgotton even by our bodies, by the pictures The brass-knuckle method as a means to teach that fade and by the cairns that crumble; who can ex jthe aliens the meaning of the American law is press thoughts so subtle, so profound, so exalted, that an attempt to revive also this antiquated system of no artisan, no artist or musician even can translate old Europe, an importation that should be knocked them; who can endow the human voice with a speech, out of our system wherever it appears in disguise as small and quite, yet mightier than that of the hurri an American virtue. Without it we will lose nothing cane, earthquake or fire; whose syntax can work of our firmness and the principle of self-government, changes more wonderful than the achievements of which rests on the individual’s natural reactions in synthetic chemistry; whose etymology is more dis support of the law, will retain its hold on those millions cerning of human spirit than is analytical chemistry who are citizens in the making as much as on those of earthly elements! May your declensions, inflections who are naturalized or native-born. and conjugations in our schools be as the rites of a * ♦ * sacred service in which life has its most useful, fullest, The means which Mr. Thomas admittedly used to highest utterance! accomplish his sensational capture of the alien fisher folk who are alleged to have tried to corrupt his morals, leave much to be desired. Whether it is legally a case of entrapment we are not at this time in a position to say, but certainly it is morally a case that has all the earmarks of a cruel entrapment. What naturalization examiner is there who cannot tell any number of incidents where aliens in some for the following brands awkward manner have approached them with a similar purpose? Their dignified and corrective responses have had a most wholesome effect, though they missed the publicity that Thomas gained. If Thomas’ method of handling this situation is right in the sight of all Mt. Hood Overalls America, then we are not Americanized, and what’s more, we are not anxious to be. Mt. Hood Shirts Believing, as we do, that Mr. Thomas, in a show University Overcoats down, will, himself, stand arraigned in public opinion, we submit the prima facia evidence for public con University Mackinaws sideration, and invite the people of Oregon, in the interest of a higher standard in citizenship, to take an Jenny & Joe Play suits interest in the alien people in this state and demand ¡that they be given the help they need in Americaniza Columbi-Ann tion so that repetition of such scenes as these enacted House Dresses in Astoria under the direction of Mr. Thomas shall never occur again. * * * Columbi-Ann Ladies’ Night Gowns Poor misguided people of the fishing hamlet! No one had told them that it was a felony and penitentiary offence to offer an American official A Warranty Bond with Every Garment money for a favor not strictly within the law. “Attempted bribery” is one of the horrible Ameri can expressions the fishing folk at Clifton have learned to understand since this trouble swept in on them like illllllllllllllllllllllllllllilUlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllUlllllllllllllilllllltllllllllllllHIIIIIIIII a tidal wave. Ask Your Dealer Manufactured in Portland A FERVENT PRAYER WITH A PRACTICAL MODERN APPLICATION By Dr. John H. Finley UTHEN AN ancient sat down to write, he was wont ” to invoke the presence and aid of one or another of the Muses, who dwelt by some distant spring or Oregon Marine & Fisheries Supply Co. Dealers in all articles and supplies for ships, gas engines, rope, twine, fish nets, McMahon trolling spoons. PLYMOUTH ROPE 105-107 1ST ST., PORTLAND, ORE Place Your Orders With The United American Advertisers—and Tell Them Why
