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About The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip. (Portland, Or.) 1923-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1925)
SEPTEMBER 1925 THE UNITED AMERICAN Page Three Sound Advice 'T' HE CAUSE that has a margin 1 of right in its favor will suc ceed despite all obstacles. If com munism is the panacea for all the ills in the world, as its protago nists maintain,the Russians could do nothing better than to concern themselves with establishing a model communistic government in Russia, conserving their re sources, skill and energy for the task of demonstrating its ad vantages to an openminded world. If the principle of private owner ship of property is wrong in practice, as against the principle of state ownership of all proper ty ; if the principle of encouraging individual thrift on the strength of greater compensation and, eventually, greater personal gain, is wrong, as against the principle of driving the individual to per form skilled or unskilled services for the state, receiving in return only what is necessary to live according to state regulated standards, then why not demon strate the advantages of the latter among credulous Russian peasants and communistic adherents? Why not do this, and demon strate the advantages of a com munistic state in operation, rather than rule the Russians by the bayonet and spend fabulous sums, plus human energy, at large in the woild in an effort to cause dissension, industrial and econo mic turmoil, in countries where there is domestic peace and tran quility, where racial and re ligious toleration is a fundamental principle in government and where nothing else is mandatory upon the individual than con formity to the law enacted by the majority of the people who com pose the state ? In the name of decency the com munists should keep out of Amer ica with their propaganda until they can demonstrate that they have established a government that distributes greater common good conducive to greater indi vidual happiness than that which abounds in this free democracy, the realm of the Stars and Stripes the land in which the individual rights are all important and where the state is merely an agency for the protection of the individual that his domain of rights shall never be invaded. 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 Offices and Publishing House Labbe Building, 227% Washington Street, Portland, Oregon Phone Broadway 6600 Vol. 3 v^hime°U8 21 Sept, 1925________ Number 12 CO N T E N T S EDITORIAL SUBJECTS— Needing Uncle Sam; Speaking to the Point in Tennessee; “The Lazy Habit of Wireless”; Faith and Prayer; The Road from Humble Origin to Fame and Fortune, etc.............. A NATION BUILT ON PRINCIPLE STANDS PLEDGED TO FIGHT INTOLERANCE ....................................................... By H. J. Langoe SOUND ADVICE ............................................................ 10-11 1 3 STUDY OF NATURALIZATION REQUIREMENTS ....................... 4 By Judge J. A. Buchanan, Astoria, Oregon ANOTHER STATE BACKING THE CAUSE .................................... 5-6 By H. J. Langoe VIEWING THE IMMIGRANT’S AMERICANIZATION FROM ELLIS ISLAND ...................................................................... 7,12-18 By Henry H. Curran, United States Commissioner of Immigration, Ellis Island BECOMING AN AMERICAN .................................................. 8 By A. G. Strange, State Director of Americanization Schools, QUESTION AND ANSWER PAGE FOR FOREIGN-BORN .......... 9 BITS OF HUMOR FOR THE HOME-CIRCLE AND FIRESIDE.. 19 Subscriptions, twelve issues, Two Dollars 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. Always give old address, as well as the new, and al ways write plainly. The Editor will be glad to consider contributions; but a stamped and addressed envelope must be inclosed, if the return of unavailable manu scripts is desired. Entered as Second Class Mail Matter in the Post Office at Portland, Oregon, under the Act of Congress of March Third, 1879.
