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
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Phone Broadway 6600
Vol. 3
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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
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