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May 1926
THE UNITED AMERICAN
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When Duty Calls
pERHAPS YOU, newly-made
1 citizens of our United States
of America, are approaching an
unprecedented act of your life—
that of casting your first ballot.
You have severed your connec­
tion with the government under
which you were born and given
your allegiance to the country in
which,, after tests of qualifica­
tion, you have been granted the
right to a voice in its govern­
ment. Your first act will be to
indicate your choice of local,
state and national candidates.
As a rule, the foreign born,
who have joined the family of
American citizens, appreciate
the dignity and honor of passing
into active participation in a
greater government. It means
so much to them that often they
find greater compensation in the
serious discharge of their elec­
tion duties than do the majority
of the native born who frequent­
ly neglect to study the political
issues involved, and sometimes
do not vote at all. Their severed
allegiance to the old country in­
duces a need of grasping more
firmly the steadfast institutions
of the new. The primary election
is one of such institutions.
Do you understand your re­
sponsibility and power ? Do you
realize that your vote— yours—
may be the deciding one in an
exceedingly close election? It
might be the one which defeats
the unfit, the seeker of means to
a selfish end.
The voters who stay at home
on election day have shirked
their responsibility to the coun­
try of their adoption. They
are traitors to the institutions
by which they may profit
through succeeding generations.
Your responsibility does not
cease with the taking of the
oath of citizenship. It governs
your every act affecting the gov­
ernment you have sworn to up­
hold. It goes deeper than living
an honest life and obeying the
laws. It strikes back to those
who make the laws and are put
into office for that purpose. It
reaches out to every one charged
with the execution and interpre­
tation of those laws. You cannot
discharge this responsibility un­
less you vote, both intelligently
s i and conscientiously.
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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
Offices and Publishing House
Labbe Building, 227% Washington Street, Portland, Oregon
Phone Broadway 6600
Vol. 4
X“euous22
May, 1926
Number 8
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL SUBJECTS—
Chicago’s Carnival of Crime; America—Yesterday, Today
and Tomorrow; Is it a Subject for College Debate?, etc.......
THE TRAIL THAT LEADS TO RESPONSIBLE POLITICAL
GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA................................... .......
By H. J. Langoe
WHEN DUTY CALLS.,
By H. J. Langoe
THE COST OF GOVERNMENT IN OREGON
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THE MAKING OF AMERICAN CITIZENS ................ ..................
By A. C. Strange, Oregon State Director of Americanization
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THE COMMONWEALTH OF OREGON ...........................................
By A. C. Strange, Oregon State Director of Americanization
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QUESTION AND ANSWER PAGE FOR FOREIGN BORN.............
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