Evening journal., 1922-10-14

7 aries are diHlust NAotiy uNb udiuru
We know that orients,s barred
from the country by law are con
stantly smuggled over our borders
Would Enroll Foreigners
1T has been estimated that all
told between 10000 and $4,000 have
thus Illegally entered the United
States. would enroll them all
We have compulsory education for
our own chgdren. why should we
not have compulsory education in
History and traditions for the allen
who seeks 70 join US. Let us list
them all. Let us observe their will
ingness TO be Americans. their 10y
atty 10 those institutions which ev-
cry real American hold dear. their
devotion TO the flag for which so
many real Americans have laid
down their lives. Let us welcome
them when they prove worthy. and
when we find them preaching the
downfall OF our institutions. when
we find them peddilng the rank req
political and economic heresles
which are convulsing nations abroad
which means the overthrow OF our
present form OF government by revo-
luton not evolution let us send them
back 10 the country they came
from.
For we owe a duty 10 our past
and our future. We owe a duty TO
those who will come after Us in
America, Just as we owe a duty 10
those who have gone down into the
valley OF the ehadow OF death 10
preserve American and American in
stitutions. We are now face 20 face
with both OF these duties. and one OF
them we are already performing
We are bringing back to life OF
usefulness and self-respect those
men who offered themselves for the
great sacrifice in the world war.
am chairman OF the Federal Board
for Vocational Education which was
before the passage OF the Sweet bill,
charged with the duty Of rehabili-
tating those heroic soldiers who
came back to US from the fields OF
Flanders shattered in body or mind.
l count II a high privilege so TO
erve.
Utmost For Service Men
I'VE have undertaken to do our
utmost for these men who suffered
that all OF us might enjoy the rights
and privileges OF a world freed from
despotism. The Republican admin
istration has enforced enconomy inI
government expenditures. but here
Is no such thing as parimony. The
President is definitely behind this
program OF aiding the men VINO
fought and suffered. remember
that before we had succeeded in sys-
tematizing the Veterans relief work
which is now the work OF the Vet
erans' Bureau, I went to the White
House with a proposal for appropri-
ations for the vocational training
plan. Il called for the immediate
expenditure of s140,0OO,000 in re-
habiutation work. l presented the
plan to the President and I shall
always remember what he said TO
me.
"'Jim. II doesn't make any differ
ence how much this work costs. II
IL takes every cent that the govern
ment can rake and scrape. we must
discharge the nations debt 10 these
men. They are our first care, our
first duty. To them we must give all
that we have Of gratitude and help
I'VE are doing il. Today we are
spending at the rate Of S5O0,0OO'0OO
a year in this work, and getting
results. in men fitted for life OF
usefulness TO themselves. TO their
communities and their nation.
Protect Mothers, Children.
zone phase OF our duty to those
who come after us. we are at work
upon. The Republican administra-
ton. through the Department Of
Labor. has moved to prevent the
sapping OF the life OF the race
through the deaths OF mothers and
infants. Upwards Of 250,000 Ameri-
can babies die each year before they
reach the age OF one year. Each
year some $4,000 mothers die In
bringing future citizens Of America
into the world. The Children's Bu-
reau OF the Department Of Labor Is
the distribution Of
s1.24O.OO0 of Federal funds appro-
priated by Congress to encourage
the individual States in providing
the proper care for maternity and
infancy. Experts OF the Children's
Bureau have determined that a large
OF the deaths Of mothers
and infants can be prevented by
simple care. Thirty-three States have
already undertaken 10 cooperate
with the Federal government in this
work, and the saving OF mothers
and babies to provide healthy, sturdy
citizens for a better more prosper
Gus America in the future, Is al
ready under way.
Have Turned Corner"
I'VE have turned. the corner in
America. We have left behind us
he terrors OF the after war depres-
ion and we have started on the up
trade. All this has been accom-
llished by a return to governmental
anity. While President Harding
md the Congress labored to restore
Americas standing among the ma
ions OF the world by a sound foreign
policy. they worked too. TO restore
in America by a simple
Implication Of solid Republican prin-
iples. Just as the armament con-
erence called by President Harding
With its treaties put America in the
anguard OF a great practical world
toward lasting peace. so
he domestic measures worked out
" the President and Congress have 3
irded the nation for the march to-
Yard domestic prosperity.
zone OF abe first measures in this
rogram OF domestic rehabilitation
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