OCTOBER 1925
But the service is found in its tenderest
form
When we walk with the crowd in the road.
So I say, let me walk with the men in
the road,
Let me seek out the burdens that crush,
Let me speak a kind word of good cheer
to the weak
Who are falling behind in the rush.
There are wounds to be healed, there are
breaks we must mend,
There’s a cup of cold water to give;
And the man in the road by the side of
his friend,
Is the man who has learned how to live.
I could not. remain in the house by the
road,
And watch as the toilers go on,
Their faces beclouded with pain and
with sin,
So burndened, their strength nearly gone.
I’ll go to their side, I’ll speak in good
cheer,
I’ll help them to carry their load;
And I’ll smile at the man in the house
by the way,
As I walk with the crowd in the road.
Out there in the road that goes by the
house.
Where the poet is singing his song.
I’ll walk and I’ll work midst the heat of
the day,
And I’ll help falling brothers along,
Too busy to live in the house by the way,
Too happy for such an abode,
And my heart sings its praise to the
Master of all
Who is helping me to serve in the road.
CROSSLEY ON PROHIBITION
ENFORCEMENT
Portland, Ore., Nov. 10th, 1925
To the Editor:—Having been asked
as a candidate for U. S. Senator to
declare myself as to my stand on law
enforcement, and particularly in regard
to the liquor question, I welcome the
opportunity to make my position clear.
The question of a man’s attitude on any
vital issue can best be answered and
made known by referring to what has
been done or accomplished by him dur
ing his terms of public office.
First and foremost I have always
been in favor of prohibition and during
the five sessions that I served in the
Iowa State Senate, from 1900 to 1908, I
supported and voted for all prohibition
measures, and I am peisonally in favor
of the observance and enforcement of
all laws.
Then, when I was appointed U. S.
Attorney for Alaska in 1908, with head
quarters at Fairbanks, I found in that
district 388 saloons, which were open
[twenty-four hours a day and seven days
[of the week and a “red light” district
in the heart of the City*of Fairbanks
[comprising about six city blocks en
closed by a sixteen foot plank stockale
and vice and gambling rampant. The
[saloons in Alaska at that time were
[conducted under the liquor license sys
tem and the saloons, dance halls and
houses of prostitution were all under
[the same roof, and in the same building.
THE UNITED AMERICAN
By objecting to the issuance of renewal
of licenses I succeeded in reducing the
number of saloons from 388 to 97,
abolished the dance halls, removed the
saloons from their proximity to the
mines and secured the abolition of the
“red light” district, following which the
stockade was opened up and the un
fortunate women moved out. I also en
forced Sunday closing of all saloons..
One of the difficult conditions to
handle in Alaska was the bootleggers
who sold liquor to the Indians and I
found it almost impossible to curb the
sale of liquor to Indians under the then
existing laws as it constituted only a
misdemeanor, but upon my report and
recommendation to the Attorney General
at Washington, D. C., a law was passed
by Congress making the sale of liquor
to Indians a felony and after securing
several convictions and the violators
sentenced to a term in the Federal Peni
tentiary at McNeil’s Island, matters
were decidedly improved and I was able
to cope with the situation. Therefore,
I am of the decided opinion that if the
people of Oregon favor the retention of
the 18th Amendment to the United
States Constitution and the Federal laws
for the enforcement of prohibition, as
I feel confident most people and law
enforcing officers do, and they want the
law observed as it should be, then we
should put teeth into the law and make
its violation a felony so that the profes
sional moonshiners, bootleggers and
illicit importers of intoxicating liquors
could upon conviction be sent to the
penitentiary as that would certainly put
a stop to the flagrant violations of the
law such as we have today. This plan
I favor to the extent that if nominated
and elected to the U. S. Senate I would
introduce a Bill providing for the amend
ment of the law making such violations
a felony.
Respectfully yours,
JAMES J. CROSSLEY
Page Seventeen
per cent or more of the total amount of
stock are: The Northman Publishing Co.
(incorporated) H. J. Langoe, B. G.
Skulason- and W. Peterson, of Portland,
Ore., and H. Swenson of Los Angeles,
California.
3. That the known bondholders,
mortgagees and other security holders,
holding 1 per cent or more of total
amount of bonds, mortgages or other
securities are: Security Savings & Trust
Co., Portland, Oregon.
4. That the two paragraphs next
above giving the names of the owners,
stockholders and security holders, if any,
contain not only the list of stockholders
and security holders as they appear upon
the books of the company, but also in
cases where the stockholders or security
holders appear upon the books of the
company as trustee or in any fiduciary
relation, the name of the person or corpo
ration for whom such trustee is acting,
is given; also that said two paragraphs
contain statements embracing affiant’s
full knowledge and belief, as to the
circumstances and conditions under which
stockholders and security holders who
do not appear upon the books of the
company as trustees, hold stock and
securities in capacity other than that
of a bona fide owner; and this affiant
has no reason to believe that any other
person, association or corporation has
any interest, direct or indirect, in the said
stock, bonds, or other securities than as
stated by him. H. J. LANGOE, Editor.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 9th day of October, 1925.
B. G. SKULASON, Notary Public for
Oregon.
My commission expires May 11th, 1928.
Not if He’s a Good Shot.—“Do you
think he will miss me,” sang the enter
tainer in a cracked voice.
“If he does, he ought never to be
trusted with a gun again,” shouted one
of the irate audience.
—Medley.
Statement of the Ownership, Manage
Unkind.—“Ah, we doctors have many
ment, etc., required by the Act of
enemies in this world.”
Congress of August 24, 1912,
“Yes—but more in the next!”
Of The United American published
—Buen Humor (Madrid).
monthly at Portland, Ore., for October
1925.
Bathing Beauties Too!—Elderly Movie
State of Oregon,
Patron—No, my dear I never can re
County of Multnomah, ss.:
Before me, a notary public in and for- member what pictures I have seen. They
the state and county aforsaid, personally go in one eye and out of the other.
appeared H. J. Langoe, who, having been
—William Purple Cow.
duly sworn according to law, deposes and
says that he is the editor of The United
Not Very Well Reared.—An elderly
American, and that the following is, to gentleman of bookish learning was haled
the best of his knowledge and belief, a into court charged with drunkenness.
true statement of the ownership, manage
“What have you to say for yourself?”
ment, etc., 'of the aforsaid publication for said the judge. .
the date shown in the above caption,
“Oh, man’s inhumanity to man makes
required by the Act of August 24, 1912, countless thousands mourn,” replied the
embodied in Section 443, Postal laws and man. I am not so debased as Poe, so
Regulations, to wit:
profligate. as Byron, so ungrateful as
1. That the name and addiess of the Keates, so vulgar as Shakespeare, so
publishers, the editor, managing editor, timid as Tennyson, so intemperate as
and business manager are: Publishers, Burns—”
The Northman Publishing Co., 227^
“That will do,” said the judge, “ninety
Washington . Street, Portland, Oregon; days.”
editor, managing editor and business
Turning to the officer the judge said:
manager, H. J. Langoe, 227^ Washing “Better take down the names of the
ton Street, Portland, Oregon.
people he named and round ’em up. I
2. That the stockholders holding one think they’re a bad lot.”
—The Light.