Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-09

After prolonged controversy. the
courts and the Department of Justice
have conceded that an Armenian is a
white man. and as such Is eligible 10
American itiZenship-provided he can
get into the United States lawfully
under the present Immigration quota
law.
Armenia, being in Asia. has been
considered Asiatic under the ruling Of
the immigration Bureau. and the con
troversy in the court has developed
many interesting phases from the
standpoint Of ethnoloSy and !mmiera-
ton restriction. All admitted imml-
grants are not eligible 10 become Citi-
gems, and all races who are eligible TO
become citizens, il here, are not neces-
sarily admissible under our restriction
laws Aliens must leap two hurdles
before acquiring citizenship in the
United StateS-race and entrance
X X
Our law admits to citizenship whites,
also negroes born in the United States
or in Africa and all descendants of
Africans. 1t does not say descend
ants of African negroes, but of any
Africans Hence Chinaman or Japa-
nese. although inadmissible If born in
China or Japan, is eligible to United
States citizenship if his parents were
| living in Africa at the time Of his
birth.
Sometimes it is incorrectly construed
| that the law applies to Caucasians,
rather than whites-assuming that the
terms are synonymous. All whites are
not Caucasians, nor are all CaucaSianS
| white Some Caucasians are brown
and some are very black. Nor are all
! blacks negroes or Of African descent,
| nor are all Africans black. According
to our law, it is not a question of com
plexion who are whites
keane, in his book, THE Worlds
Peoples by scientists and
| accepted by our Supreme Court as
! high Observation-Disclosures as white
| the Hindus, the Maori and the Ham
| ties. although their compilations range
| from brown to black. There is a race
| along the European shore Of the
| Mediterranean Sea classed in eth
nology as dark whites" 1t may ap-
pear to the layman that science is
stretching its prerogative to call black
white, but this is approved by the SUI
preme Court, and recognized by eth
nology.
| Our immigration laws bar all ma
| tives of Asia coming from a certain
specified territory, covering most Of
the continent Nearly all Hindus, al
| though whites" come from that
barred region, but if any were born
outside of the barred zone and sue
coed in entering the United States
under the quota of the nation from
which they come, they may, five years
! thereafter, vote for our President, for
they could become naturalized.
The barred zone does not cover Ar
menia, hence Armenians are admis-
sible in proper quotas, as immigrants
and hereafter they, too, may be nat
uralized.
The Armenians are perhaps the old
| est race in history. They claim de.
scent from Togarmah, the great
grandson of Noah Genesis, x). The
father of their country was Hayq
and their own name for their country
is Hayq. but one Of Hayqs descend
ents was King Aram, whose name
became the root of Armenia" several
generations later. The Armenians are
not racially connected with their con.
querors, the Turks
The earliest period Of Armenian
nationality is given as 2247 BIC
l-sometimes recorded as 2492 Be
when Hayq rebelled against King
Nimrod, or Baal of Babylon, and
founded the country around Mount
Ararat.
For more than 1000 years Ar
menia, except for short periods. was
nationally independent, but after Mo
hammedism gained supremacy in thu
Near East Christian Armenians be.
came lawful prey" to fanaticism ant
cruelty.
IN CONTRAST with the teachings O