THE UNITED AMERICAN
JUNE 1925
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AMERICAN
A Magazine or Good Citizensnip
Issued Monthly in the Interest of
Americanization and Adult Education
Publishers: The Northman Publishing Company (Inc.)
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
Vol. 3
volumeous 21
June, 1925
Number 9
CONTENTS
Charles M. Herlihy
President Department of Adult Edu
cation of the National Education As
sociation of the United States and
Supervisor of Alien Education, State
Department of Education, Boston,
Massachusetts.
William Chandler Smith
Chief, Immigrant Education Bureau,
State Department of Education,
Albany, New York.
Mr. Smith was one of the factors
who brought about the establishment
of the Department of Adult Educa
tion in the National Education Asso
ciation and served as its first presi
dent.
Entered as Second Class Mail Mat
ter in the Post Office at Portland,
Oregon, under the Act of Congress of
March Third, 1879.
Subscriptions, twelve issues, Two
Dollars yearly; single copies, twenty
cents. Remit by U. S. Money Order,
Express Money Order or Check.
EXISTENCE OF THE REPUBLIC DEPENDS ON EDUCATION..
By President Calvin Coolidge.
INTERSTATE COUNCIL ON IMMIGRANT EDUCATION ......
By John J. Mahoney, President Interstate Council.
THE FOUNDATION OF NATIONAL SECURITY ...............
By H. J. Langoe
EDITORIAL SUBJECTS ......................................
TWO LESSONS IN ADULT EDUCATION AND CITIZENSHIP ..
BRINGING AMERICA INTO HOME AND COURTS, DELAWARE
TEN POINTS OF PROGRESS IN N. Y. STATE PROGRAM ......
By W. C. Smith, Chief, Immigrant Education, Albany, N. Y.
STAMPING OUT ILLITERACY IN OKLAHOMA ................
By Victoria Lyles, Adult Schools, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
THE MASSACHUSETTS PROGRAM OF AMERICANIZATION ..
By Chas. M. Herlihy, Pres. Dept. Adult Education, N. E. A.
THE STATE PROGRAM OF ADULT EDUCATION IN ARKANSAS
By Miss Willie Lawson, Little Rock, Arkansas.
AMERICANIZATION IN THE CAPITAL OF AMERICA..............
By Maud E. Aiton, Principal, Americanization, Wash. D. C.
THE AWAKENING IN LAND DIVIDED BY LANGUAGES ......
By R. G. Deming, State Dir. of Americanization, Connecticut.
AMERICANIZATION PROGRESS IN RHODE ISLAND .........
By Agnes M. Bacon, Providence, Rhode Island.
ADULT EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA ........................
By Ethel Richardson, California Dept, of Public Instruction
ADULT EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP IN MINNESOTA ....
Theodor Utne, Director Evening Schools, St. Paul, Minn.
AIDING ADULT EDUCATION THRU THE PUBLIC LIBRARY ..
By L. L. Dickerson, Exec. Ass’t., Com. Amer. Library Ass’n.
MOVEMENT TO SUPPRESS SORDID CRIME NEWS ..........
By H. J. Langoe
AMERICANIZING THE HOME ................................
By Anna Helene Anderson, Portland, Oregon.
REDUCING ILLITERACY THROUGH ADULT EDUCATION ....
By Hazel B. Nielsen, Dept, of Pub. Instruction, Bismark,N.D.
FOR SUCH IS THE GOVERNMENT OF AMERICA .............
By Hon. Hugh M. Morris, U. S. District Court of Delaware
AN AMERICANIZATION REVIEW FROM CLEVELAND ........
By Geo. A. Green, Director Citizens’ Bureau, Cleveland, Ohio.
“AMERICANIZATION IS NEIGHBORIZATION” ................
I. M. Morris, Dir. Americanization, Thompsonville, Conn.
REDUCING ILLITERACY, ADULT EDUCATION IN SOUTH ..
By Wil Lou Gray, Supervisor Adult Schools, South Carolina.
PROGRAM, Dept. Adult Education, N. E. A., 1925 ................
ADULT IMMIGRANT EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES..
By Marguerite H. Brunett, Dir. Immigrant Schools,Delaware.
AMERICANIZATION ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN ASTORIA, ORE.
A. C. Strange, Sup. City Public Schools, Astoria, Oregon.-
ADULT EDUCATION IN PENNSYLVANIA ....................
By A. W. Castle, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
FACTORS IN BUILDING THE EMPIRE OF THE WEST..............
By Herbert Cuthbert, Chamber of Commerce, Portland, Ore.
THIRTY THOUSAND ADULTS IN NIGHT SCHOOL IN OHIO...
By M. W. Simpson, Director Adult Education State of Ohio.
REMEDY FOR CHILD DELINQUENCY ........................
By J. Kanzler, Judge Domestic Relations Ct., Portland, Or.
“MINE OWN AMERICA” ......................................
By John Doherty Rice, Portland, Oregon.
ADULT EDUCATION IN PORTLAND, OREGON ...............
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