Evening star., 1931-06-04

the Schenectady Gazette, while the Ann
Arbor Daily News insists upon linking
the benefits and responsibilities of cit
1zenship, position which is taken also
by the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
The San Antonio Express comments
The war-declaring authority remains
With the Congress and the arms-bearing
duty remains with the citizens. Neither
they nor their National Government
are yet willing to delegate that au-
thorlty or pass along the determination
OF the nature and scope of that duty
to individual objectors or to organized
extreme pacif1sm under any of the
many titles it has assumed in this
country. despite the tragic lesson Of
American unpreparedness in 1917"
Dr. Macintosh asked that the Con-
stitution of the United States be modi-
fed" asserts the Chicago Tribune,
while the Boston Transcript and the
Toledo Blade aver that "the United
States does not bargain with those of
alien birth who want to become citi-
zens," and the Flint Daily Journal
takes exception to ''the oath of alle-
glance with mental reservations" The
Oshkosh Northwestern sees no reason
Tor "a separate or superior status" The
New York Sun maintains, There ought
not to be two classes of citizens
"The minority opinion of four dis
ttnguished members of the highest
court should have weight with Con-
gress." advises the Topeka Daily Cap
ital, with the conclusion as to the per-
sons concerned in the decision, "They
are recognized as among the most de-
Sirable kinds Of citizens in other re-
spects, and it is humiliation to the
country that such persons are barred"
The Asbury Park Press contends.
Common sense, rather than techni-
calities, would have dictated that both
be admitted to citizenship, even though
they refuse to recite pledges that con-
fiict with their philosophy or religion"
After study. of this opinion" saws
the Rochester Times-Union, I'VE are
convinced Mr.. Hughes course is the
wiser one. The majority opinion will
not alter the flow of immigrants. It
will not make good soldiers of men who
do not want to go to war. We shall
not in any sense be much, if any, better
off for it. 1t has committed us to a
rigid policy on the oath of arms. We
think it would have been more in
keeping with the sentiment of the
country If the Supreme Court had in.
voked Chief Justice Whites famous
rule of reason instead"
The two applicants "are of the
llgner type OF ClIlZeESnlp which the
Nation needs" in the Judgment of the
Greensboro News. while the Memphis
Commercial Appeal is convinced that
many laymen will believe that the
decision in those cases should have
been particular and not general" The
Baltimore Sun finds in the case and
in other cases under the Bureau of
Naturalization particular examples to
document the general charges brought
against bureaucratic administration.
The youngstown Vindicator declares:
Calm consideration would seem to
lead to the conclusion that the final
word on the subject has not been said.
When two such men as Justice Hughes
and Justice Holmes take the view that
the country is making a mistake in ey.M
cludtng applicants from citizenship who
are so devoted to principle that they
would rather renounce something they
desire very greetly than sgrce tn the
possibility that tfov may so->e t-v cc''-
sent to 10 what to- tl1'r'' : -'-~--T.
then we nav Dc su-c t'-at ti,e q-'---t'c1
is still alive and viii no. &c settled
until 1t Is settled right"