Fage Eleven
THE UNITED AMERICAN
work
its
marvels
with
the
gullible,
but,
Bill,
your gospel
may
couple as they emerged from the farm with the cash
that represented everything they owned in the world. is fine, yet it would be still finer if you didn’t play any
Check up on the secret passages through which the
They trusted him as they had trusted their neighbors favorities.
higher-ups enter and let us have a battle royal, flank and
in the country. He left them stranded.
rear attack, on the devil’s joyhouse all at the same time,
The aged couple had faith and a plain code of and old man Portland, knowing the truth, will be set free
religion. They believed that God would return to from his addiction to moral and civic sins.
SEPTEMBER 1925
them the money they had lost, though the police could
find no trace of Doc Gray, the confidence man. And
so they just naturally prayed fervently every night
and never lost faith, though the years came and went.
A short time ago Gray was finally arrested in Detroit
and brought back to Atlanta. The aged couple told
their story again and the confidence man was given
the alternative of a long term in prison or dig up the
$2500 to William Hill, the aged Civil War veteran and
his wife, whom he had defrauded. Gray dug up the
money and now Hill and his wife claim that it was
their faith and God that brought about the return of
their little fortune after six years.
THE ROAD FROM HUMBLE ORIGIN TO FAME
AND FORTUNE
AGAIN THE story is told how a lad of humble
origin can make his way to fortune and fame.
This story relates the early life of Dr. W. E. Gye
who, with J. E. Bernard, recently discovered what is
purported to be the sure cure for cancer.
The story reveals a triumph over the lowly condi­
tions wherein he was born. His parents were of the
poorer working class. In his teens he was given
employment as a railway porter at a little Midland
station in England for $2.50 a week. He had deter­
mined to become a doctor and devoted every penny
he could scrape up to buying books for studying in
his spare time.
At last he had saved enough money to go to London
and take his degree as Bachelor of Science. Then he
taught in small schools in the Midlands, studying hard
and saving for his further education.
Dr. Gye had taught for two years when he began
his medical studies at Edinburgh. There, by coaching
other students and through prizes and scholarships,
he earned his fees. He qualified as a doctor in 1912
and the following year took his M. D.. degree.
In the recent world war, Dr. Gye served with a
mobile laboratory in France and Italy. After the
armistice, he joined the scientific staff of the Medical
Research Council, where he has been ever since.
Opportunities are waiting for every man who works
hard to better himself and who struggles forward on
the open road of advancement.
The devil is on trial in the Billy Sunday Tabernacle
at Seventeenth and Chapman Streets. The records of his
misdeeds are daily recited and ably assailed by the prose­
cutor, the Rev. William Sunday, who has reserved himself
nearly two months of time in which to finish his case.
There is no doubt that the devil deserves all the tongue lashing
he gets and the ridicule and satire that is heaped upon the
poor dub of a private citizen who plays the game in the
devil’s joyhouse, a loosing game under all circumstances, no
matter how alluring to the senses, but the devil’s chief accusers
in this man’s town who are playing the devil’s game under
cover, when they have the delegated power to stop his character
defaming show, appear to have turned state’s evidence, for
Bill is not looking in their direction. Bill’s immunity bath
The Riffians that are neither killed nor driven out
of their country by the French during the present French
war-drive, will help to swell the physical number of the French
“nation” on the colored side of its ledger. The French states­
men and French generals are not talking very loud about
France as a nation of eighty million people, for military
purposes, with half of it white and' the other half brown,
black and yellow. But, figuratively speaking, it probably
has its advantages in the minds of the French, though it is
a cinch that the homogeniousness of that ensemble will always
be so amicable that it will require the full war strength of
the one half to watch the other. Something worth fight­
ing for, eh?
The melting pot in Chicago seems to be unable to
reduce the composite metal to a purified state and throw off
the dross. A little pratical Americanization work and, to
begin with, compulsory adult school attendance, would change
matters for the better. Delayed action is costing many human
lives and much valuable reputation for a wonderful city.'
The Tennessee evolution trial was a fine publicity
stunt for some people who participated, judge, jurors witnesses,
lawyers, and all those who played any part at all, but the
state of Tennessee has gained nothing by it, for the question
at issue will never be settled between mortal men in Tennessee
or elsewhere.
Never mind about her name, but a wealthy woman
of Mount Vernon, N. Y., has just completed a huge granite
mausoleum at a cost of thirteen thousand dollars as a final
resting place for her two beloved dogs. Not all the people
who are crazy are on the inside of institutions for those who
suffer from mental derangement.
ANOTHER STATE BACKING THE CAUSE
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start stampeding them into the naturalization courts,
illy prepared for this final act incorporating them
more intimately in the social and political life of this
nation.
Wherever aliens reside in Oregon there are to be
found rural schools. Such schools should be made
available for evening studies, in language, history and
citizenship. Where the community cannot afford to add
the expense of the evening school to the budget a fee
system could be arranged to compensate the teachers
for the extra school work. In this way an intensive
and adequate pre-naturalization training for every
alien could be made possible in every school district
in Oregon, under competent supervision of the state
department of public education.
It is to be hoped that the public will cooperate
with the State Americanization director to the fullest
extent in order that the present naturalization require­
ments, on the point of the applicants’ knowledge, may
not become lowered in order to appease misguided
public opinion.
The intelligent citizen is an ASSET to the country.
The ignorant and untrained individual who obtains
his citizenship through a compromise is a LIABILITY
to the country.