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THE UNITED AMERICAN
DECEMBER 1925
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A Question and Answer Page for Foreign-Born
Questions on Americanization, Naturalization, Citizenship, Civil Rights and all matters of importance
in regard to the necessary adjustments for foreign-born who have come here for the purpose of
remaining permanently, will be answered promptly and as fully as possible, By Judge J. A. Buchanan,
President Astoria Americanization Council in Astoria, and by H. J. Langoe, Editor The United Amer-
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but the questioner must in all instances sign his correct name and address to the letter that
accompanies the question. Anonymous questions will not be published or answered in this forum.
People who are living in Astoria and vicinity may address tlheir questions directly to Judge Buchanan.
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I Q.—I am going to apply for citizenship.
I have a number of acquaintances who
are citizens and have known me for more
than five years, who, as neighbors, have
seen and talked with me and been in my
heme regularly. I can get any two for
witnesses, but most of them are not well
known, though they are good people. One
man whom I know is well known and has
peen a witness to many who have applied
for citizenship and they have all gotten
their papers, I believe, because they had
[this businessman for a witness. I have
to pay him good for getting him, he says
his pull ought to be worth something, hut
I don’t know. If I could get my papers
because I get him to come with me, it
would be worth it, but do you think the
others who have no pull, whom I don’t
bave to pay for coming with me, would be
as good?
—Tony D.
I A.—I believe you are somewhat mis
taken in the importance of what you call
GOOD witnesses. Any two citizens of good
reputation, though they be neither ac
quainted with the examiner nor the judge,
will make as good witnesses for you as
you will need, and either perhaps a better
Ivitness than the man “with a pull” of
whom you are speaking. The man who
frequently appears in court as a witness,
regardless of his influence, will eventually
be suspected of being a “professional”
witness, that is, a man who will be a
witness for anybody willing and foolish
enough to pay the charges. The fact
of the matter is that the citizen who
is willing to go to Court and say anything
in your favor beyond what is actually the
specific truth, if you pay him the price
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he asks, is not a good citizen , and what’s
more, he lends himself to a mighty mean
business, that of perpetrating a fraud on
Uncle Sam, perjuring himself, perhaps,
and placing you in a mighty serious
position, as suspected of buying witnesses
to testify favorably so that you can get
your papers. Should anyone learn about
such a deal and report it, though it might
not be a very serious, offense in your
casé, yet it certainly would not help
you any and might bring you before the
court on a charge so serious that it might
place you within the shadow of the federal
prison. Take no chances with the “pro
fessional” witness. His “influence” is
purely an imaginary one, and it is going
to get him, and somebody else, into trouble
some time. Get for your witnesses those
close neighbors who can truthfully testify
to your character, your moral and your
home-standard, people who have seen and
talked with you almost daily for the past
five years. The chief character in a natu
ralization hearing is not your witness,
it is yourself. If you have lived a dean
good life and have nothing to hide and
can show fair and general knowledge of
American history and ■ civil government
and if you can create the honest impres
sion that you are not seeking citizenship
for mercenary reasons, beyond that of
wanting to share in the privileges as well
as the responsibilities which are due those
Who are homebuilders and co-builders in
that America we prize in common, then
you should have no trouble. A case in point
is reported from a recént Naturalization
hearing in Coos County, where the judge,
or the examiner, seriously questioned one
particular man for his frequent appear
ances in court as witness to citizenship
applicants. There is little satisfaction
for the man who “gets” by on the strength
of a “well-known” Witness with a “pull."
It is rating citizenship very cheaply. If
it is worth anything, it is worth fighting
for it honestly and by one’s own efforts.
Go to school and study at home and
prepare yourself with as much enthusiasm
as the worthwhile callege man who is
working for his examination, and give
less thought to the “influence” of your
witnesses, then, 'any1 two reputable
neighbors, as witnesses, will be all you
need on the day of your hearing—H.J.L. •_
Q.—My parents, through adoption, were
native born American citizens, when
they, on a trip to Europe, “picked on”
little me, at that time only two months
old. My natural parents, with many
children to care for, gladly gave me up,
to relatives who were well situated and
able to give me a better chance. The
adoption procedings were duly recorded.'
over there and, as I understand it, over
here after they arrived. I am told that
my adoption, in infancy, by American
citizens who brought me into. America
when they returned after a sojourn
abroad, made me an American citizen,
that is correct, is it not?
—Ed. J.
A.—-No. Your adoption did not change
your nationality or any fact connected
with your birth. You are foreign born
and came into America much in the
same way that immigrants do. If the
circumstances of your adoption are not
generally know and your conscience
bothers you none, if, when the ques
tion of nationality arises, you answer
evasively: “My parents were both native
born Americans,” it probably can’t matter
very much, if you are recorded as their
child. However, if you want to be satis
fied in your own mind and absolved from
the allegiance that is technically binding
you to the country of your birth, there
is but one thing for you to do and that
is to become naturalized according to the
regulations governing the same.—H.J.L.
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