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
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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 ............................................................
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STUDY OF NATURALIZATION REQUIREMENTS .......................
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By Judge J. A. Buchanan, Astoria, Oregon
ANOTHER STATE BACKING THE CAUSE ....................................
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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 ..................................................
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By A. G. Strange, State Director of Americanization Schools,
QUESTION AND ANSWER PAGE FOR FOREIGN-BORN ..........
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