NOVEMBER 1925
THE UNITED AMERICAN
Page Three
Finding the Way
A MONG THE many encourag
ing signs that are indicating
that the Americanization and
adult elementary education move
ment is destined to have an im
portant place in the public mind
in America from how on, is
the growing interest among the
school people throughout the
country, who are taking up the
work with an enthusiasm that in
many instances is marked by a
willingness to sacrifice compensa
tion for the privilege of perform
ing a service in education that is
more urgent and more immediate.
‘ The utter helplessness of the
alien people in particular who are
being crowded by public senti
ment in the general direction of
the naturalization court, has be
come so appalling, coupled with
the inadequacy of the volunteer
teacher without any standard in
methods or plans to follow, that
the professional teachers have
gradually come to look upon
adult elementary educational
work as a specific branch of
public school education that re
quires even maturer and keener
minds, with special training, if
the situation is to have the atten
tion which national safety de
mands.
Specific standards in teacher
qualifications, methods, class
room organization, grading, sub
jects to be taught, etc., have been
worked out and is being im
proved upon in proportion as the
field observations of the keener
minds are being submitted. The
importance of imparting to an
alien a fair measure of intelli
gence about American citizenship
has become more widespread in
the same proportion as the knowl
edge is becoming more general of
these strangers within our gates,
whose persistent efforts and re
peated appearance in court, de
spite their intellectual handi
cap, for want of practical train
ing, is sufficient to kindle deep
sympathy.
In the important economic, po
litical and social adjustments that
must be made as we go along,
America will need a greater civic
intellect if the requirements are
to be met in a satisfactory way.
Americanization and adult ele
mentary and citizenship educa
tion is the answer.
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AMERICAN
A Magazine oi Good Citizensnip
Issued Monthly in the Interest of
Americanization and Adult Education
H. J. LANGOE, Editor
Associate Editors:
Robert G. Deming, State Director of Americanization, State of Connecticut
(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”)
Charles M. Herlihy, State Superviser Adult Alien Education, Massachusetts
R. E. Dugdale, Director Extension Dept., Board of Education, Toledo, Ohio
Geo. A. Green, Director Citizens’ Bureau, Immigrant Aid, Cleveland, Ohio
A. C. Strange, Oregon State Director of Americanization Schools, Portland, Or.
Publishers: The Northman Publishing Company (Inc.)
Officers: H. J. Langoe, President; B. G. Skulason, Sec-Treasurer
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Phone Broadway 6600
Vol. 4 vohime°us 22
November, 1925
Number 2
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL SUBJECTS—
“The Battle against Intolerence is on”; When Stupidity is
Cornered by Logic; A Sadly Needed Change, etc..................
SOUND AMERICANISM REPUDIATES ACTS OF INJUSTICE
AND RETALIATION ......................................................... :.
FINDING THE WAY
“THE ALIENS’ CLUB OF AMERICA”
By H. J. Langoe
WHEN JUSTICE IS SWEPT OVERBOARD
By H. J. Langoe
BECOMING AN AMERICAN
By A. C. Strange, State Director of Americanization Schools.
QUESTION AND ANSWER PAGE FOR FOREIGN-BORN.........
IMMIGRANT LIFE AND EDUCATION IN AMERICA
By Harry M. Shafer,
Assistant Superintendent, Public Schools, Los Angeles, Calif.
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