Page Ten
THE UNITED AMERICAN
EDITORIAL
COLLEGE RULES FOR FRIENDSHIP
UOW TO MAKE friends and keep them may appear
simple enough to some people, yet, the story is
ever told of friendship broken without any special
cause. To teach the simple code of friendship to the
young people who are seeking knowledge the following
ten rules have been posted in the Oregon Agricultural
College Library :
1. Don’t contradict people, even when you are sure you
are right.
2. Don’t be inquisitive about the affairs of your friends.
3. Don’t underrate anything because you don’t possess it.
4. Don’t believe that everyone else in the world is happier
than you.
5. Don’t conclude that you have never had any opportunities
in your life.
6. Don’t believe all the evil you hear.
7. Don’t be rude to your inferiors in social position.
8. Don’t jeer at anybody’s religious beliefs.
9. Learn to hide your aches and.pains — few care.
10. “Do unto others as you would be done by.”
The College philosophers’ contribution contains
valuable educational assets. The knowledge of the
simple code of life and living is the first essential to
an advanced education. Too many college “educated”
people have failed to acquire this fundamental education.
THE FRUITS OF RACE PREJUDICE
'T'HE STATE of Michigan will presently foot a heavy
x bill of expense connected with the hearing of a
litigation that has grown out of race prejudice. The
multi-millionaire and automobile manufacturer, Henry
Ford, who incidentally is publishing a magazine called
the “Dearborn Independent,” is claimed to have lent
his magazine freely for extensive propaganda against
the Jews. The most hideous sins in the universe
have through this publicity channel been credited
against the Jewish race, in America and elsewhere,
on the slightest pretext.
Aaron Shapiro, a marketing expert, whose activeties
in creating markets, domestic and foreign for American
products and whose efforts to organize the American
plroducers in every field for co-operative bargaining,
has brought him renown, recently brought an action
in the Michigan State Courts against Henry Ford and
his magazine, charging slander and defamation of
character. In his complaint he alleges that Ford has
accused him of having entered into an arrangement
with Jewish bankers to control the food products
market of the world.
In asking for one million dollars in damages Mr.
Shapiro denies any and all knowledge of such an agree
ment and it is clear that the intention of the plaintiff
is to bring out as much as possible of the anti-Jewish
expressions that have appeared in the Dearborn Inde
pendent for the purpose of proving, if possible, that
race prejudice is the actuating motive in the Ford
publicity compaign.
There should be little difficulty in proving this
contention against Mr. Ford’s editors and contributors.
Few Americans who have read the Magazine in
question can have any doubt as to one of the outstand
MAY 1925
ing objectives of the publication. Anti-Jewish articles
have appeared with regularity and much of the intoler
ance wave that has been sweeping over our country
during the last few years can be easily traced to the
Ford editorial factory.
The hearing of the litigation will necessarily
require considerable time and the litigants, both of
whom are wealthy, will undoubtedly bring in every
element with the slightest bearing which their able
attorneys can use to any advantage. The litigants
will pay their attorneys and the nominal filing fees of
the county clerk, but the judge and the court personnel
draw their salaries from the state, hence the public
must bear the trial cost of this case which has grown
out of racial hatred, jealousy and religious intolerance.
All of which sustains the old contention that a fool
may make a lot of money and become wealthy, but
only a man with education can handle great wealth
wisely and in such a way that it will benefit mankind.
Certainly mankind does not receive any benefit from
an added dose of race prejudice and the man who uses
his personal fortune for such a purpose has become
dangerous because of his wealth.
AN OFFICIAL NATIONAL CONVENTION ISSUE
J HE CONSOLIDATION of the “Interstate Bulletin”
of New York with the “United American” of
Portland, Oregon, for a National Education Association
convention issue for June, was acted favorably upon
by the Editorial Board of the Bulletin at a conference
in New York on May ninth.
On May eleventh the following letter was sent
broadcast among the Americanization workers of the
East:
INTERSTATE BULLETIN
Adult Elementary Education
State Education Building
Albany, New York
May 11th, 1925
Dear Sirs:
The Interstate Bulletin on Adult Education
proposes to join with the United American of Port
land, Oregon, in an Edition of 15,000 copies of a
special N. E. A. Indianapolis meeting number to be
issued early in June.
These copies go directly into the hands of the
teachers of Adults in Immigrant Education and of
Native Adult Illiterates. The edition will afford a
most unexcelled opportunity for reaching these
teachers, thru the Editorial Board of the Bulletin,
and the Department of Adult Education of the
N. E. A., thru which it will be distributed.
Sincerely yours
(Signed) Charles M. Herlihy,
President, Dept. Adult Education, N. E. A.
(Signed) W. C. Smith,
Chairman, Editorial Board,
Interstate Bulletin.
Those who have stood nearest to us in the struggle
for the cause and for a broader recognition of the
United American may feel justly proud of this
achievement.
The decision by the Interstate Bulletin Editorial
Board in conjunction with the Department of Adult