MAY 1925
THE UNITED AMERICAN
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Education of the National Education Association, sideration of their health as affected by working conditions, to
means that the United American will be the Depart­ the end that their worth be fully compensated and their best
be enlisted in the service. .
ments’ official publication for the convention of the effort
6. To carry out the spirit and the letter of all contracts
National Education Association, which convenes at in which we engage; to respect and observe with utmost fidelity
Indianapolis on June 29th.
those principles of association to which our members subscribe.
7. To dedicate, with great good will, our time and energy
The decision means, incidentally, that the United
the conduct of our business on the high principle of the
American has been acknowledged the leadership in the to
Golden Rule, believing that in no other way will a full measure
presentation of the issues of Americanization and Adult of success be permanently assured.
Education in America.
The world would put on a new front, as it were, if
The Northwest, but particularly Oregon and-the these principles could become a governing force in all
city of Portland, share in this achievement with the business dealings and the basic code and contract
United American.
between employer and employee.
Men of vision in Oregon should feel it their duty
to co-operate in making the convention issue worthy
SMUGGLING IMMIGRANTS INTO AMERICA
of the state in which it is issued.
A
SIMPLE and very efficient system of circum­
A representative issue will mean much to the cause,
venting the American immigration law was re­
it will also mean much to Oregon.
cently discovered by German authorities in Hamburg.
For some time the American authorities have been
TRIBUTE TO POE’S MOTHER WILL GRACE puzzled at the unusually large number of sailors who
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in contravention of the immigration laws, have man­
THE UNMARKED grave of Elizabeth Allan Poe, aged to desert from German ships in United States
mother of Edgar Allan Poe, will soon lift an ports.
imposing memorial shaft among the mouldering head­
German shipping companies were informed regard­
stones in St. John’s churchyard, Richmond, Va. The ing this situation and United States suggested that they
delayed tribute is the plan of the Raven society of the should insist upon only regular seamen of German
University of Virignia, working together with the nationality being allowed to sign on as members of
New York Actors’ association, which has aided in their crews, it having been found that among the
the raising of funds. The design, it is announced, deserters from German vessels there were a number
has already been furnished and final plans for the of individuals hailing from southeastern Europe.
rearing of the monument will be discussed at an early
The German shipowners at once took precautions,
date at Harvard university.
but the number of desertions showed no decrease until
J. H. Whitty, an authority on Poe, discovered the the Hamburg police energetically took the matter in
grave of Poe’s mother four years ago. It lies near
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delivered his “Liberty or Death” oration. A member
of a theatrical company, Elizabeth Allan Poe, died
there in 1811. Her little son, Edgar, adopted by the
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Allan family, was reared to maturity in Virginia.
The poet’s own tribute to his mother will be the
inscription used on the shaft. It reads: “No earl
was ever prouder of his earldom than he of his descent
from a woman who, though well born, hesitated not
to consecrate to the drama her brief career of genius
and beauty.”
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