The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-28

acumen qualify the first man for citi- zensnip, and the absence of that gual- ny, disqualify the second2 The term IS susceptible of much debate, and the Iimes-Farmer should have vouch- safed more light.
 1. ''Is he a good citizen within the ordinary meaning of the word" 1T so, is he not to all intents and pur- poses sufficiently Americanized What is wanting to a good citizens Americanfsm? Nothing. What is re- quired to make him good citizen within the ordinary meaning of the word?" Nothing, the Times Farmer and the Governor being guides. but naturalization. That certainly should be had by such a one for the asking.
 ). Docs he go to Church 2" This religious test strikes us as bit alarming. If he does go to church his conduct is entirely out of harmony with that of hundreds of thousands of others who count themselves '.good Americans" Many indeed. who are regarded as the choice and master spirits of the country are not keen on church going. Is there to be one rule
  ner born, and another for those from elsewhere?
 6. Has he built himself a home?" Is this q covert reference to Mr. Roosevelt's poIyglot boarding house? Let him board for while, for it takes time to build a home He may be d. single man, and what is home with out q mother or a prospective moth n IIrit lnl hi, papers and his diploma for Amerf- canization till such things are accom- pNshGd is a hardship which Governor Holcomb himself would probably hes itate to impose.
 '. "Is he rearing children and sending them to school?" The pro- cess is a slow one To withhold his naturalization papers till he has begotten children and begun to rear and educate them is to keep his Americanization tco long in the brew ing.
 l. is quite possible that the Times Farmer does not demand it's qualiti- cations of every applicant for nat uralization. But wherever it finds one or other of them conspicuously present, it would admit the alien so lowered to a full partict t0ation in the country.
 We quite agree with the Times Farmer that the country has little to fear from the foreigners who are faithful to the teachings of the Catho- lie Church. The better Catholics they are, the better citizens they are bound to be. And the Times Farmer finds that, in this state at least. the majority of the newcomers are af- filiated with the Catholic Church. 'gThe great number of aliens in Connecticut are hard working, thrif ty. and ultra-religious. They are largely attendants of the Catholic Church, and. with rc~pect to eco homie and industrial questions more conservative than the body of citi- zens." That testimony from an un- prejudiced source is worth record- ing.
 The great peril to the United States. as the Times-Farmer asserts, is not from the hardworking and unassimilated foreigners, but from RoIsheyism Bolshevism which thrives among those who speak Eng fish and who turn their back upon. industry and honest labor. Following the somewhat mystic direction of tLe Times Farmer. those who are suffer ing from the popular malady O. Americanization will not spend all their energy iu "ring blank cartridges and making themselves a nuisance and a reproaCh to the common s7nse of the Al rican people.