Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-01-06

mittance from those for n~aturaliza-
ton. Admittance should be denied
to the chronically diseased, the
criminal, the defective, those that
are not producers or likely to be-
come a public charge, all who op-
pose any form of government and
any who would effect political
change by force, or are incapable IF
citizenship.
These effective tests should be ap-
pied TO the alien SO far as prac.t-
cal When his passports are vised,
or at h port of embarkation and
not wait upon his arrival at our
ports of entry.
Our federal government should
have the right and assume the re-
sponsibility of contr olIing and su-
pervising the distribution of the
immigrant. They would be in pos
session of accurate information as
to the opportunities and economic
needs obtained through systematic,
official, private state and federal CO.
operation.
1t is due the immigrant that he
be truthfully informed of our oppor-
tunities in agriculture and industr,.
1t Is not beyond hope that through
the same agencies. the process of
naturalization may be stimulated
and aided.
A working knowledge of our Ian
guage and a practical understanding
of u form of government should
be a prerequisite to naturalization
and the privilege of citizenship.
which should be accompanied by
suitable formalities that emphasize
its privileges and responsibilities
and when each ones qualification for
citizenship shall have been estab-
lfshed, naturalization should be
regulated exclusively through fed
eral action.
The time has come for the Ameri
lean people to turn their attention
to the formalities of a constructive
policy of selective immigration and
abandon the present negative legis-
lation, which does not fill our co.
nomic requirements or effectively
control education and distribution or
the application of practical tests for
admission.
The literacy test as now applied
that has been vetoed by three presi-
dents which the Lenins' and Trot-
skys OF the world pass with ease is
not and never will be a fair test of
either mental or moral capacity for
citizenship for if these same tests
had been applied to our ancestors
some of our most useful and illus
trous citizens would never have been
heard of in this country.
Our government should exercise
the right to register, supervise, ecu.
cate and distribute the allen worker
through suitable board to include
the department of labor, commerce
and agriculture.
This nation has been starved of
its customary labor supply for more
than five years and it now needs i'm
mediate relief that will meet demon
strated economic necessity and still
maintain safeguards against undesir-
able aliens.
Congress should modify the exist.
ing act by:
1. Determining tn a tn a |
amount of those emigrating and
charge this against the actual
amount of those immigrating in de-
termining the nations quotas.
2. To have the secretary of labor
to admit all other admissible and de-
sirable labor in excess of quotas
where the necessity for such labor Is
shown and where it is not obtain
able in this country.
8. To have the secretary of la
Dor together with other properly ap.
pointed officials provide Immediate
ly for the determination OF the adj
instability of the alien at the point
where their passports are vised or at
least at the chief port OF debarka-
ton.