A MAGAZINE OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP
AT THE CROSSROADS WHERE AMERICA
CALLS FOR RENEWAL OF CIVIC FAITH
IN PASSING through the gates of the changing seasons we are
reminded that another cycle of time has passed beyond recall
and has sent us by another milestone along the journey we call
life. Only the records of the year that has gone can tell the true
story of our conduct in citizenship, of the actual losses we have
sustained and the gains that stand marked to our credit. This
record of our individual lives may square perfectly with our own
peculiar ideas of civic measurements, but if it rates below par on
the exchange of America’s civic conscience, we should at once be
busying ourselves with our assets in citizenship. Our intentions
may be all right, but if our personal habits, in some respects, are
responsible for the losses we have sustained they should be revised
in favor of increased credits in citizenship. The man who meas­
ures his personal conduct, throughout, according to both moral
and legal code in citizenship, is the man who sustains no losses
and whose credit account on the civic ledger provides for an
ample margin in favor of posterity.
The horizon of the new year is radiant with promises for
civic achievements through all the land. Citizens'in all walks of
life have come forward with new declarations of principles for the
improvement and unification of our standards in citizenship.
Men and women who have collected their pleasures on the border­
lines between personal “rights” and the American] Constitution
are today marching on with new resolutions in favor of the Con­
stitution and the inflexible precepts of the American moral code.
There is no middle ground in citizenship. Men either build or
destroy. The question of individual contribution is, therefore,
unavoidable and calls for a straight answer. A decision is impera­
tive. To which crew do we belong? Where do we, individually,
stand as American citizens as the New Year is dawning?
DECEMBER, 1926
PORTLAND, OREGON