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About The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip. (Portland, Or.) 1923-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1925)
Page Fourteen THE UNITED AMERICAN SEPTEMBER 1925 sausage-cutting citizenship process that has masque to say about it at all. The choice is made by the raded so often under the name of naturalization, there alien, at the outset, and beyond any chance of change. ♦ * ♦ are ten millions of foreign-born residents of America who are in need of Americanization effort—and most In the old days there were immigrants who came of them earnestly want it. On the other hand, there to our shores because they had been persecuted at are one hundred million genuine Americans most home. Liberty of political thought, or of religious of them native-born—but at least five millions of them belief, was the lure that called them to the new wilder foreign-born—who are in a position to help the other ness. Also came the adventurers—those hardy folk ten million. For every foreigner who is ready to who fare forth to the far places, who live best in the become an American, there are ten Americans on hand saddle, who know danger, shoot straight and die game. to help him through. Surely, we have enough On their heels were the home-builders, who would teachers! sooner carve a rude hut out of the forest, and call it Add to this the fact that a wise law has recently home, owned and held—their own—than be tenants reduced the volume of immigration to America to at ease of the most beneficent lanlord that ever held something like 300,000 or 400,000 a year—a thousand a condescending string on old lands in old countries. a day, in the rough—and it would seem safe to say So too, there were the coordinators of a newly knit that, as long as American children continue to be born, industrial civilization, executives by birth, answering there will always be ten teachers for every pupil in the call of a complex machine for heads to command this partnership of Americanizing the stranger within the hands that ran it. With them came the laborers our gates. So much for mere figures. and the servants—the backs and hands that did the multifarious human toiling not yet swept under the * * * mechanical sway of the uncanny inventions of to-day. Yet, there are one thousand a day still coming in, And finally followed the ordinary jobhunter, from all every day, for as long as the present law stands un over the globe, coming to our country for any old changed. They are a better lot than used to come. kind of a job, just because there are more jobs here Every man and woman of the government’s force at than there are over there. Ellis Island will tell you that. They are better. But, Here he is, the job-hunter, last of the procession, by so much the more, are they worth better teaching standing right before us here at the gate at Ellis at the hands of the rest of us who are already heie. Island! The rest have trooped by and gone with the Just as they are better pupils themselves, they deserve years—pilgrims, breaknecks, homesteaders, men of and will demand teaching that is more understanding wit and men of toil—they have gone forever and and more helpful than any we have ever given before. ever. Only their legends survive. In their footprints And, if they do not get it, we lose just so much our ¿'lllllllllllllllll|ll||||l||||l|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||l|||||||||ltll|||||!||||||||||||||ll||||||||||||||||l|||||||||||ttl|||||||tlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll> selves! because they are already a part of ourselves —every one of the thousand a day —from the moment they are admitted and come ashore. They are a slice RASMUSSEN & CO. of “us,” because they are in. Of course we Americans who outnumber the I Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Glass, Sash, Doors admitted alien by ten to one are not going to turn High Grade Lubricating Oils in, the whole ten of us, in every case, and press upon Brushes, Etc. him ten different varieties of Americanization pill. Most of us will pay no more attention to the affair Northeast Corner Second and Taylor Streets than we do to voting and to taking an intelligent hand Portland, Oregon in the affairs of our own government. We are “too busy,” or too something else. 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