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About The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip. (Portland, Or.) 1923-1927 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1925)
AUGUST 1925 Page Three THE UNITED AMERICAN SCENES OF LIFE THE PANORAMA of life be- 1 comes exceedingly interest ing where the human tide moves most swiftly and is most con gested. The ideal place for a re view is a great central railway station, particularly in one of our eastern metropolitan cities. It is fascinating to watch the station crowd from a place of vantage, preferably from a nook where you are un-observed. Find an advantageous view-point, for example in the Grand Central station in New York, and lo, the world unfolds itself in kaleido scopic vividness before your eyes. To the accompaniment of the constant train-calls from the doorman, which by the way sounds like the litany in a Rus sian church and almost as in telligible, you see the apparently aimless hustling; people moving and crowding for the sheer fun of it, the strong pushing the weak aside with stoical indifference to every known code of courtesy. Some immigrants attract the attention. They move slowly, the women with heavy bundles on their heads. Two men in clerical garbs are eyeing one another. It is easy to see by the mutual aloofness in their manners that they belong to different denomi nations. A party of Italian merchants are gesticulating and speech-mak ing in a minor key. A bridal couple rushes in, pursued by a mob of rice-throwing wedding guests. A child, lost in the crowd, is taking vocal excercise while the doorman raises his voice a trifle and in a slight falsetto continues his chant. On the scene comes half a dozen stately nuns, marching two by two. They move with measured pace in the direction of the elevator that is onloading passengers for up-state and “all points West.” A man with an odd looking bundle under his arm is dodging the station police while trying to reach a subway exit. The metropolitan flapper sans all raiment, even remotely termed modest, engages considerable at tention with her quiverations and wiggily walk. And on and on moves the crowd with constant changes and repetitions of the scenes. AMERICAN A Magazine of Good Citizenship Issued Monthly in the Interest of Americanization and Adult Education H. J. LANGOE, Editor Associate Editors: Charles M. Herlihy, State Superviser Adult Alien Education, Massachusetts (President Department Adult Education, National Education Ass’n. U. S.) William Chandler Smith, Chief State Bureau Immigrant Education, New York (Chairman Editorial Board “Interstate Bulletin”) Robert G. Deming, State Director of Americanization, State of Connecticut R. E. Dugdale, Director Extension Dept., Board of Education, Toledo, Ohio Geo. A. Green, Director Citizens’ Bureau^ Immigrant Aid, Cleveland, Ohio A. C. Strange, Superintendent of Public Education, City of Astoria, Oregon Publishers: The Northman Publishing Company (Inc.) Officers: H. J. Langoe, President; B. G. Skulason, Sec-Treasurer Otfices and Publishing House Labbe Building, 227% Washington Street, Portland, Oregon Phone Broadway 6600 Vol. 3 £X‘nëou9 21 August, 1925_______Number 11 CO N T E N T S EDITORIAL SUBJECTS— Against Religious Strife in Politics; Taxes and Property; Government Prisons are Full; A Blot on American Honor; In support of Public Education; A Worthy Example; Crime Blamed on Cross Eyes; Blotting out the Memory of Ancient Bigotry, etc., etc............................................................................. 10-13 THE DEBT OF JUSTICE WHICH AMERICA OWES THE IMMIGRANT .................. 1 SCENES OF LIFE............................................................................. 3 NINETY-TWO THOUSAND WAR VETERANS ARE WORKING FOR UNCLE SAM....................................... 4 A GIANT PLEADING FOR JUSTICE........................ 5-6 A SON OF HONEST TOIL- WHO FIND HIS VACATION AT LAST .................................................. 7 ByNat J. Faber, in The New York American THE POPULATION OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST CITIES 8 PREDICTIONS OF A GLACIAL AGE TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS IN THE FUTURE................................ 8 QUESTION AND ANSWER PAGE FOR FOREIGN-BORN..... 9 BUILDING AMERICA THROUGH AMERICANIZED IMMI GRANT ENERGY........................................ 15-17 By Eugene S. Bagger, in Survey Graphic AGRICULTURE IN SWEDEN................................ 18 By G. Leufven, Director Sweden’s General Agricultural Society BITS OF HUMOR FOR THE HOME CIRCLE and THE FIRESIDE 19 Subscriptions, twelve issues, TwoDollars yearly; single copies, twenty cents. Remit by United States Money Order, Express Money Order or Check. In Canada and other foreign countries, belonging to the Postal Union, fifty cents additional should be added. Back numbers, not over three months old, twenty-five cents; more than three months, One Dollar each. Instructions for change of address should be sent two weeks in ad vance of mailing. 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