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
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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.
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