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About The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip. (Portland, Or.) 1923-1927 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1926)
February, 1926 Page Three THE UNITED AMERICAN uiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinjiiiiiii{|||||||||||||||j|||||||||||||||ij||||H^^ Hold High the Torch! 'T HE NOBLE efforts put forth 1 by some of America’s most spiritually inspired educational leaders, to have the adult ele mentary citizenship training schools established as part of the American public school system, are gradually showing a healthy reaction in public opinion, par ticularly in the more settled cen ters of our country where civic assets are given some thought and consideration. Inasmuch as there are several states, with a large untrained immigrant popu lation and a number of native il literates, where the adult educa tion movement, as yet, has re ceived but scant consideration, this fact becomes an undeniable criterion of the prevelent civic standards in such states. America’s system in govern ment depends on intelligent citi zenship. Training for citizenship therefore becomes one of the chief responsibilities with the citizens of America in every cycle of time. Neglect this duty for a decade or two and you can account for some of the signs of the lowered standards which are vexing our civic cosmos at the present time. Where educational supervisors and educational boards recom mend and appropriate substan tial sums for fads for ele mentary and high schools, but frown disapprovingly on re quests for limited funds to Carry on adult elementary training for citizenship, it is safe to conjec ture that the standards in civic intelligence and responsibility in citizenship have dropped to a level that is threatening the very foundation of our governmental form and organization. The community that is back ing its night schools in citizen ship training, where the illiter ate and the uninformed adults are instructed by able teachers, where the school houses are nightly turned into social as well as educational Americanization centers, where the townspeople meet to chat and chum with the strangers within our gates, there the torch of Liberty will never burn low, the spirit of unity will never be wanting and the soil will be too healthy for the weed of in tolerance, treason and anarchy. AMERICAN A Magazine of Good Citizenship 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 Olfices and Publishing House Labbe Building, 227% Washington Street, Portland, Oregon Phone Broadway 6600 Vol. 4 vo“umëous 22 February, 1926 Number 5 CONTENTS SHATTERING THE FOOLS’ PARADISE AND BUILDING AMERICA INVINCIBLE .............. ...................................... By H. J. Langoe HOLD HIGH THE TORCH .................................... BY-LAWS OF THE DEPT. OF ADULT EDUCATION, N. E. A.... COMMUNING WITH THE NEW AMERICANS .........--------- By H. J. Langoe SUPPORT FOR ADULT EDUCATION FROM THE EMPLOYER.. By Louis A. Bowman, Chicago Association of Commerce THE FIELD OF ADULT EDUCATION SINCE THE WAR............ By Charles M. Herlihy, Boston, Mass. THE MAKING OF AMERICAN CITIZENS ..................................... By A. C. Strange, Oregon State Director of Americanization THE COMMONWEALTH OF OREGON ............................................. By A. C. Strange, Oregon State Director of Americanization EDITORIAL—With Those Who are Building America........................ OUTSTANDING NEEDS FOR NATIVE ILLITERATES ................ By Clutie Bloodworth, Montgomery, Alabama STATE AND LOCAL SUPPORT FOR ADULT EDUCATION .... By Willie Lawson, Little Rock, Arkansas . PROCEEDINGS AND METHODS OF ATTAINMENTS .................. By Wil Lou Gray, South Carolina PROGRESS OF ADULT EDUCATION IS RAPID .......................... By Miss Frances K. Wetmore DEVELOPMENT OF A GREAT EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENT .. (Minutes of 1925 Meeting, Dept. Adult Education) OUTLOOK FOR AMERICANIZATION IN THE NORTHWEST ... By H. J. Langoe THE INCULCATION OF IDEALS IN CIVIC INSTRUCTION .... By Howard Bradstreet, Hartford, Conn. QUESTION AND ANSWER PAGE FOR FOREIGN BORN ...... 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12-13 13 13 14-15 15 16-17 19 Subscriptions, twelve issues, TwoDollars yearly; single copies, twenty cents. Remit by United States Mone y 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.
