The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip., June 01, 1923, Page 8, Image 8

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THE WESTERN AMERICAN
JUNE, 1923
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taking therefore three months more out of an other­
wise perfectly good year. Papers cannot be obtained
during the judiciary vacation lasting over a period of
ninety days during the summer. The Federal Court
in Cleveland holds three or four large hearings dur­
ing the year which thousands of petitioners attend.
During those days the Federal Examiner’s office is
closed^ For these proceedings we may allow seven
days. Any alien who does not respect some of his
own national holidays would not perhaps be the most
desirable citizen for us to adopt so we should there­
fore credit him with at least five days for such cele­
brations. This being a total of 365 days, we can I
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readily see by this crescendo of mathematical logic, |
a foreign born may obtain papers on but one day in 1
\V E ARE fully alive to the responsi-
four years or every leap year, and then only by a |
bility of selecting furniture which
coincidence of meeting in time, place and manner, |
will permanently beautify the homes of
the community we serve, for upon the
of at least six people, the judge, his clerk, the Federal I
character and value of the pieces we sell
Examiner, and the same two witnesses who appeared |
rests our reputation as the quality furni­
at the preliminary hearing.
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ture store of this city.
Why do we need any further bungling up of the |
present proceedure when the average applicant for |
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citizenship is already registering six times before |
final admission? First, the application for the Decía- I
ration of Intention; everyone is quite familiar with 1
the questions that are asked upon this document; I
secondly comes the first paper. Another registration |
comes in the form of an application for certificate of |
arrival. Enrollment four, is presented in the shape ¡
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mailed out by the court, in which the petitioner is
asked for the nth time, his name, address, color of
eyes, color of hair, this is a significant requirement
at this stage since what was black might now be
gray; marriages and births since filing petition and
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in this last requirement we find sometimes that two
or three children had been born since proceedings
began years before. And finally comes the certificate
itself which is another form of registration.
The proposed law seemingly based upon an hypo­
thesis, and a false one, would imply that all aliens are
inherently criminal. At the hearing of 1921 our con­
genial commissioner stated that through his fourteen
years of experience the fact had been demonstrated
. that from seventy-five per cent to ninety-five per cent
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of our aliens who sought naturalization were fair,
straight forward and honest; in fact the commission­
er’s report for last year indicated that approximately
2,000, if we except Boston’s classification of draft
evaders as of immoral character, were denied because
of ignorance or questionable conduct. This would
make the number of exceptionally deserving as high
as ninety-nine per cent. Why should we attribute the
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derelictions of a few to a whole class in the form of
a general law.
The certificate of arrival is a living example of the
futility of any such effort to reach the undeserving
few who are usually cunning enough to avoid any law.
It is not, generally speaking, the uniformity of the
law that causes so many hardships and unnecessary
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delays, but the non-uniformity and the inharmonious
interpretations Of the law.
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