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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 Three Loyalty! 'THE MAN that meets you out 1 in the open, who tells you why he is against you, can claim every consideration due an honorable adversary, but the person who poses as your friend and tells you how he likes you, and in a language too profuse to be sincere, expresses his admi ration for you, pledges and pro fesses his loyalty and fidelity, only to stab you in the back with bitter, cutting, sarcastic, sinister ridicule, when you are beyond the sound of his voice, is Vhe kind of human specimen that has lost its soul and become a piatorial realization of that cele brated inglorious personage that is credited with holding sway in the metaphysical realm of the wicked. This characterization is mild when compared with the sorrow, the grief and the untold missery that follow in the wake of the pretending friend who gains your confidence and travels with you along the most secluded pa+ihs in the recesses of your mind, only to violate your con fidence at every opportunity, in his effort to destroy your business prestige and your social standing for the purpose of blocking your path of progress and retard your labor by making you the laughing stock of the community. No matter how despicable the public in general considers the character assassin, the ; in- ventor of tales about his neighbor, his friend or his business competitor, there are few places where he enters that he is considered persona non grata and given a reception plainly indicating the same. The frailty of human nature needs no further argument where a man or women listens in silence when an absent friend or ac quaintance is being wantonly talked about. The life that reflects the virtue of loyalty reflects God. Lose this precious jewel and all your possessions can never bring into your life that something you lost when you sacrified loyalty.' Loyalty is God’s own greatest attribute in man. AMERICAN 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 Offices and Publishing House Labbe Building, 227% Washington Street, Portland, Oregon Phone Broadway 6600 Joseph A. Rowley, Business Manager H. J. LANGOE, Editor Wxxl Q *01.0 Continuous 01 Volume & L February, 1925 Number 5 CONTENTS EDITORIAL SUBJECTS— Declaration of Principles that Call for United Support; Attempted Infringement on Religious Liberty; An Immi grant’s Declaration of Intention that is Worth Emulating; Diamond Deposit on Valley Forge Farm; Digging Up a Bit of Ancient History to Prove or Disprove its Authenticity; How Confidence Helps; Civic Patriotism, Etc..................... AMERICANIZATION AS A MEANS TO REDEEM OUR SPRIT- UAL PATRIOTISM................................. ................................ LOYALTY .................. ............................................................................ 1 3 10-12 1 3 AMERICANIZATION AS A NATIONAL ISSUE.............................. 5- 7 8- 9 BECOMING AN AMERICAN........... .................. ............................... . By A. C. Strauge, Superintendent of City Schools of Astoria 13 QUESTION AN ANSWER PAGE FOR FOREIGN-BORN............ 14-15 RIGID IMMIGRATION LAWS IN THE MAKING............................ By H. J. Langoe. CREATING THE WRONG IMPRESSION OF AMERICAN JUSTICE... 16-18 By H. J. Langoe. A FERVENT PRAYER WITH A PRACTICAL MODERN 18 APPLICATION .............................................................................. By Dr. John H. Finley. 19 PITS OF HUMOR FOR THE HOME-CIRCLE AND THE FIRESIDE.. Subscriptions, twelve issues, Two Dollars yearly; single copies, twenty cents. Remit by United States Money Order, Express Money Order or Check. In Canada and othc- 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.
