The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip., April 01, 1925, Page 10, Image 10

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THE UNITED AMERICAN
EDITORIAL
ENTERING A FIELD OF GREATER INFLUENCE
FOR AMERICANIZATION
TO THE thousands of friends and readers of this
magazine among foreign-born and native-born alike,
we deem it of special interest for them to know that the
United American has gained a measure of national re­
cognition and stands today acknowledged as “the only
magazine of good citizenship which consistently re­
cognizes the significant importance of the immigrant
problem in the United States.
How the leaders in the Adult Immigrant Education
movement in the East regard the United American is
amply set forth in the following:
Statement from
Charles M. Herlihy, President
The Department of Adult Education
of the
National Education Association
of the United States
“The United American”, edited and published
under the direction of Mr. H. J. Langoe of Port­
land, Oregon, is the only magazine of good citizen­
ship which consistently ‘recognizes the significant
importance of the immigrant problem in the United
States. The Editor is always advocating adequate
programs of immigrant education as the necessary
basis for the Americanization of the foreign-born.
The officers of the Department of Adult Educa­
tion of the National Education Association be­
lieve that the magazine, “The United American,”
is rendering a type of service which might well be
copied by other magazines in different parts of the
country. The school people engaged in Americani­
zation work are very glad to learn that a special
number of this publication will be prepared for the
national meetings of the Department of Adult Edu­
cation in connection with the Indianapolis Conven­
tion of the National Education Association this
year.
(Signed) Charles M. Herlihy.
The plan to prepare a special issue for the National
Education Association meeting at Indianapolis, in co­
operation with the officials of the Department of Adult
Education of the N. E. A., has been under considera­
tion for some time. The distance between East and
West of the American continent is not a small obstacle
when those who are the leading factors in the move­
ment are scattered through a number of states and
weeks and months of deliberations are required in
order to arrive at a definite course of action best suited
to promote an issue of such paramount importance.
The decision to prepare such an issue has been taken
after careful study and consideration and it is safe to
say that it will represent the quintessence of the best
thought in America bearing upon this new national
movement of public education: the education of Amer­
ica’s millions of untrained and illiterate immigrant
people as well as the untrained native born, particularly
in the Southern States.
It is also planned to consolidate the monthly Intei-
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state Bulletin with the United American for the June
issue. The Bulletin, with seven thousand circulation in
the eastern and midwestern states, is the exchange pub-
lication for the teachers engaged in educational work
among adults, immigrants and native-born. Through
this channel the United American will reach every
teacher in the nation concerned with Adult Education,
in addition to its large western and midwestern circula-
tion among foreign-born, who have advanced to an
American standard of thought and ability of ex-
pression.
The following editorial note appeared on April 3d
in the eastern educational “Nevzs Letter” published in
New York:
“A copy of the UNITED AMERICAN, published at Port-
land, Oregon, is sent you under other cover. As a sane and
wholesome Americanism organ with vigorous editorials and
fine attitudes on Americanization, it has few equals.
It should have a wide circulation in New York State. It
should be accessible in your City Library. Will you call the
attention of your librarian to it, urging that it be put on the
magazine list? Too few publications of real character in this
field are available. When there is one with sympathy and un-
der standing like the UNITED AMERICAN, it should win
ample support.”
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The following editorial item appeared in the last I
“Interstate Bulletin”.
“It is proposed to join the June number with “The United I
American” of Portland Oregon, with which you are, no doubt, I
familiar, in connection with the Indianapolis meeting of the I
Department of Adult Education, National Education Associa- I
tion. Its vigorous Americanism, in spirit with what we, as I
Directors have stood for thru all the years of misunderstanding I
when the cause was seeking its rightful place, and its view- I
point needs our encouragement and support.”
A decision from the Editorial Board of the Inter-1
state Bulletin, which consists of the State Directors of I
Americanization and Adult Education for the states of I
New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, I
Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Rhode Island, is ex-1
pected within the next few days. Over one thousand I
extra copies have also been requested for the purpose I
of distribution among the delegates and visitors at the I
convention.
National educators and public officials of prominence I
throughout the Eastern states who have expressed I
their approval of the course of action outlined in the!
United American, who have unanimously endorsed its I
stand for an intelligent Americanization, represent a I
sentiment in the Eastern part of our country that has I
the fullest attention of our government.
Citizens of Oregon whose interest in this movement I
has been limited to factional opinion and who have used I
their influence upon the Americanization movement in I
this state for the promotion of petty politics and selfish I
interests should begin to revise their working methods I
if they desire to stand vindicated on the point of altru-1
istic interest in this national movement.
Due to the fact that the United American does not
represent any special group or organization, its recogni­
tion is entirely due to the standard it has set editorially
and not to any group influence. In so far its recogni­
tion is all the more gratifying.
The advertisements of national advertisers will also I
appear in the June issue, a tribute to circulation!
strength which few periodicals ever obtain.
Outside of the daily newspaper it may be truthfully I