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be a decided reduction in the number of unqualified
aliens receiving citizenship.
Every state should have an Americanization or
citizenship bureau through which a practical system
of cooperative educational work among the aliens
should be carried on in every community, facilitating
the gradual education and Americanization of the
aliens, looking toward an intelligent adoption into
citizenship backed by a reasonable assurance of a
genuine allegiance.
The serious phase of the business of making
American citizens of the aliens who live and labor
among us is unfortunately still too abstractly
considered among Americans to receive the attention
it ought to have.
Oregon’s foreign born population yet consists chief
ly of people who more readily can be assimilated, but
the time is NOW to take steps to promote Americani
zation of the thousands of aliens among us, still living
under their nationality group inuuences, and of whom
the largest number are only remotely interested in
citizenship.
The unassimilable aliens of the eastern part of
America are looking toward the west. Let us set a I
state machinery of Americanization in motion now, I
cooperating with the United States naturalization
Bureau, and we Shall be able to preserve Oregon the
foremost American state in the Union, the home of
Americans and Americanized foreign born only, of
whose loyalty and quality of citizenship there never
shall be a question.
THE WESTERN AMERICAN
become a citizen of the United States by reason of such mar
riage or naturalization; but, if eligible to citizenship, she may
be naturalized upon full and complete compliance with all
requirements of the naturalization laws, with the following
exceptions:
(à) No declaration of intention shall be required;
(b) In lieu of the five-year period of residence within the
United States and the one-year period of residence within the
State or Territory where the naturalization court is held, she
shall have resided continuously in the United States, Hawaii,
Alaska, or Porto Rico for at least one year immediately pre
ceding the filing of the petition.
Sec. 3. That a woman citizen of the United States shall not
cease to be a citizen of the United States by reason of her
marriage after the passage of this Act, unless she makes a
formal renunciation of her citizenship before a court having
jurisdiction over naturalization of aliens: Provided, That any
woman citizen who marries an alien ineligible to citizenship
shall cease to be a citizen of the United States. If at the
termination of the marital status she is a citizen of the United
States' she shall retain her citizenship regardless of her resi
dence. If during the continuance of thé marital status she
resides continuously for two years in a foreign State of which
her husband is a citizen or subject, or for five years con
tinuously outside the United States, she shall thereafter be
subject to the same presumption as is a naturalized citizen
of the United States under the second paragraph of section 2
of the Act entitled “An Act in reference to the expatriation
of citizens and their protection abroad,” approved March 2,
1907. Nothing herein shall be construed to repeal or amend
the provisions of Revised Statutes 1999 or of section 2 of
the Expatriation Act of 1907 with reference to expatria
tion.
Sec. 4. That a woman who, before the passage of this Act,
has lost her United States citizenship by reason of her mar
riage to an alien eligible for citizenship, may be naturalized
as provided by section 2 of this Act: Provided, That no cer
tificate of arrival shall be required to be filed with her petition
if during the continuance of the marital status she shall have
resided within the United States. After her naturalization
she shall have the same citizenship status as if her marriage
had taken place after the passage of this Act.
Sec. 5. That no woman whose husband is not eligible to
citizenship shall be naturalized during the continuance of the
marital status.
Sec. 6. That section 1994 of the Revised Statutes and sec
tion 4 of the Expatriation Act of 1907 are repealed. Such
repeal shall not terminate citizenship acquired or retained
under either of Such sections nor restore citizenship lost un
der section 4 of the Expatriation Act of 1907.
Sec. 7. That section 3 of the Expatriation Act of 1907 is
pealed. Such repeal shall not restore citizenship lost under
suqh section nor terminate citizenship resumed under such
section. A woman who has resumed under such section citi
zenship lost by marriage shall, upon the passage of this Act,
have for all purposes the same citizenship status as imme
diately preceding her marriage.
THE CHARM OF LIFE
From the Writings of Dr. Frank Crane
A FTER all there is only one thing in which we are
all interested; it is—life. All our various forms
of activity are experiments in life. Whether we eat,
drink or sleep, go to the play or to the church, grat
ify or deny ourselves, laugh or weep, it is all to get
another flavor of life. The sinners are overcurious.
Children are profligates with life. Old age will cling
to it through any pain.
Gnaw my withers, rack my bones!
Life, mere life, for all atones.
That is why we love love. It is because love is the
very essence and pure substance of life. All else is
diluted. The activities of business, the musings of
philosophy, the ecstacies of religion, the thrill of ad
venture, the stir of exercise, the gratification of the
senses, all of these are but brilliant beads strung on
The above amendment should be carefully studied the
one scarlet string of love. Without love they
as it is the most drastic change in the naturalization would fall from us. All about us, in the sea and on
law that has taken place since the very enactment the land, nature, pours her abundance of living
of the law and the establishment of the naturaliza things, every crevice has its habitant, and green
tion bureau. Questions regarding provisions of this things growing crowd the earth. We get a glimpse
amendment are very common from every source and of what it all means when we love, for then nothing
every citizen should be familiar with its provisions in but a universe drenched with life can express us.
order to give ready advice to aliens seeking informa “There is one word,” wrote Maurice de Guerin,
“which is the God of my imagination, the tyrant, I
tion to citizenship.
ought rather to say, that fascinates it, lures it on
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ward, and will finally carry it, I know not where;
If the governments of the respective states were the word—life.”
concerned in how the aliens with home rights within
their boundaries were being made into citizens, their
Learn to say no when you mean no—unless you are
qualifications and educational standards, there should woman.