Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-07
Would Form Huge Pat
riotic Fraternity of
Immigrants
WITH PRESIDENT
Castle Garden is Suggest
ed by Secretary of La
bor for Body To Pro
mote Citizenship
BY ISAAC GREGG

of Labor Davis, who accompa-
MED the President on his trip to
Florida, intends to devote part
Of his vacation to perfecting plans
for the organization of naturallz-
ed immigrant Americans into Il
great national order for patriotic
service.
1t is argued by the Secretary
that such an organization would
he Of great service in the Ameri-
canization of the seven million
foreign born residents of the
country who are not yet natural
lied. "CaStle Gardeners has
been suggested as the name for
the new organization, inasmuch
as Castle Garden, the old immi-
grafton station at New York was
the haven of refuge for millions
of immigrants now eligible for
membership.
The following statement of aims
and purposes have been suggest
ed for the Castle Gardeners:
First: To voice and demon
strate our gratitude for oppor-
tunities and advantages which
have been ours in the United
States. for the rights to life, Ii
berty and property guaranteed to
us by the laws of our adopted
land, for the right to seh-govern-
ment under representative inStltu-
tions, and for the privileges and
duties Of American citizenship.
Second: To foster and preserve
the ideal of liberty under law, of
government by the consent of the
governed, in order that our chill
dren and our children'S children
may enjoy the blessings of the
republican form of government
in their fullness unhampered by
false political, social or economic
doctrine.
Furthermore, the object of the
society is "to encourage and aid
the residents of the United States
of foreign birth or foreign de
scent to accept with patriotic ar
dor the rights, privileges and du-
ties of American citizenship ir
order that Americanism in its
true sense may unite the whole
nation without regard for pre-
vious allegiance.
ITO oppose with all our rigol
every individual organization OF
nation that by word or act seeks
to subvert the eternal truths up.
on which American liberty was
founded or TO overthrow the gov,
ernment founded by the father.
of the nation on the Fundamental
principle of liberty under law
and to defend to the uttermos
the sacred human guarantees EN-
bodied by the pioneer patriots il
the Declaration of independence,
and the Constitution of tn,
United States"
"To preserve and enshrine il
our memories that gateway t,
America, Castle Garden, througl
which we entered to embrace tn
opportunity which the land o
liberty extended to us in ungrude
ing measure. and which shall eve
stand to us as symbol of n
that America is and means
After half a century in th
postal service during which onl
two days were lost through siel
ness, Horace F. Chatfield, asSiS
ant chief of the stamp section, d
vision of stamps, goes on leaN
- TO absence today preliminary
hnal retirement on April 6.
Mr.. Chatfeld entered the SER
i Ice on April 16, 1878, at Il
postage stamp agency. then i
Gated in New York City, whel
stamps were manufactured by Il
Continental Bank Company
the old Equitable building, d
stroyed by FIRE in 1912.
According TO the aged post
clerk, he had to work for Sc
eral days with an umbrella ovt
his head as the only protectiC
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