The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip., June 01, 1925, Page 47, Image 47

JUNE 1925
Page Forty-seven
THE UNITED AMERICAN
ADULT IMMIGRANT EDUCATION AS A REMEDY
FOR CHILD DELINQUENCY
(Continued from Page Forty-three)
education of the immigrant he adjusts himself as best
he can. In some localities considerable effort is made
to meet his needs, but it rarely goes far enough and
leaves the problem surrounded by much uncertainty.
As a nation we have a clean cut and elemental duty
to perform. If we would have the immigrant under­
stand our ideals in citizenship, we must see to it that
he learns to read and speak our tongue.
GOOD CHEER
Give, oh, give us the man who sings at his work!
Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those
who follow the same pursuit in sullenness. He will do more
in the same time—he will do it better—he will persevere
longer. One is scarcely sensible of fatigue while he marches
to music. The very stars are said to make harmony while
they revolve in their spheres. Wondrous is the strength of
cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of en­
durance. Efforts, to be permanently useful, must be uni­
formly joyous — a spirit all sunshine — graceful from very
gladness — beautiful because bright.
BRINGING AMERICA INTO THE HOMES AND
THE COURTS IN DELAWARE
(Continued from Page Ten)
spoken than you hear, coming from without the strains of
“The Star Spangled Banner,” and I believe you could almost
hear a pin drop as the melody of the National Anthem comes
floating in the door. After the last sounds have died out, the
Guard of Honor marches out, and lines up in the corridor until
the guests have departed.
How simple and easy such an arrangement is when
the officials in charge possess the right spirit and are
eager to contribute their share to make this occasion
a momentous one in the life of the men and women
who are thus admitted into the bond of common fellow­
ship with American citizens. Surely no one will deny
that the impressions thus made will constitute a spirit­
ual force conducive to make the new citizen have a
higher regard for his obligations in citizenship.
Compared with other naturalization scenes that are
too visibly boresome to all the functionaries from clerk
to examiner and judge to allow concealment of that
fact, the scene in the Delaware court of Judge Morris
stands in healthy contrast.
God give us more citizens in high places such as
Judge Morris and the farce written all over the natu­
ralization proceedings as now conducted in most places
will be done away with.
THE AWAKENING
By Gerald Massey
To see men awake from the slumber of ages,
Their brows g?im from labor, their hands hard and tan,
Start up. living heroes, long dreamt-of by sages,
And smite with strong arm the oppressors of man:
To see them come dauntless forth ’mid the world’s warning,
Slaves of the midnight mine, serfs of the sod,
Show how the Eternal within them is stirring,
And never more bend to a crowned clod:
Dear God, ’tis a sight for immortals to see —
A people upgirding its might to be free.
BEREAVED
James Whitcomb Riley
Let me come in where you sit weeping; aye,
Let me who have not any child to die
Weep with you for the little one whose love
I have known nothing of.
REALITY
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I am the Realty of things that seem:
The great transmuter, smelting loss to gain,
Languor to life, refining joy from pain.
I am the waking that am called the dream.
I am the sun; all light reflects my beam.
I am the force of the refreshing rain;
I am the altar fire within the fane;
I am the sea; to me returns each stream.
I am the farthest height there is to climb;
I am stability; all else will pass:
I am the truth, mirrored in bits of glass;
I am eternity, transcending time.
Kill me none may; conquer me none can;
I am the soul of God, fused in the soul of man.
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June, and the Telephone I
June, with its weddings and gradua­
tions, brings many urgings to the Amerian heart
R OMANTIC
to be off to some distant place.
Why not go, when the campus calls to the colors,
when sons and daughters want your presence at
commencements, when you feel the stir to be some­
where else, as audience or actor?
With long distance to serve, you can be wherever
you want to be.
There are 16,000,000 telephones in the nation­
wide communications service built for your use. One
of them is always near to send back decisions and
desires to home or office, or carry words of love or
greeting to places that call your thoughts.
The romance of life is in the air, and the great
romance of modern days — universal telephone
service — is yours to further it.
The little arms that slowly, slowly loosened
Their pressure round your neck, the hands you used
To kiss, such arms, such hands I never knew.
May I not weep with you?
Fain would I be of service — say something
Amid your tears that might be comforting —
But, oh so sadder than yourselves am I
Who have not any child to die.
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