Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume], February 08, 1934, Image 1

About Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942

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TOWN TOPICS
You probably are more for
tunate than some of your broth-"
era and sisters. Your parents
perhaps are better fixed and do
not need CWA or Allied Coun
cil help.
Yet the day may come when
your father would be of need of
something Perhaps old age pen-f
sion, perhaps Some other help*
And when the time of need
comes you find that your pa
Tents are not American citizens
and did not even take the troub
le to nut fiinf nanwa.
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Yes tins is addressed to you
American born and educated
children of Hungarian parents.
To you who will become voting
American citizens at the age of
21 because you were born in
this country I am speaking.
'There is a duty upon you. This
citizenship paperq.
You may want to
me. Don't do it.
I am not telling you tall tales
írom the woods. I am telling
you facts. I know a good Hun
garian father, who has been in
this country 37 years. He owns
property, he pays taxas, he goes
to church every Sunday, he sent
Ins children to school regularly
and to my great amazement the
other day I learned that this
man $jt iiQt a citizen *nd that he
did not tve taken take out his
first papers.
You know what happened to
tins man?
He had no work in the mills.
He got a CWA job. They found
out he was not a citizen. He
lost his job.
You may say but this is cruel.
That it is an injustice to treat
a man 37 years in this country
just liké á "greenhorn" who came
last months. We should de
mand that the aliens be not dis
criminated against.
While my heart tells me that
tvhat you say is right, my head
tells me you are wrong.
Despite hardships that it does
cause now you nor anybody
else can blame America for it.
The blame rests with the man
who had enjoyed the privileges
of this free country for 37 or
more years and who failed at the
same time in at least trying to
become a citizen in sharing the
wmponsibilities of citizenship.
But it Is never to late. Those
who wish to rtmain in this
country must take out citizen
ship.
And you young people brought
up by alien parents as Amer
icans must now help the folks
to get that citizenship.
It seems terribly hard for an
older man or woman to pass
that examination. You can help
them prepare for it. No judge
will deny citizenship to a man
or woman with whom their sons
or daughters American-born ci
tizens appear as witnesses.
Try it. Find out if your pa
rents are citizens. If they are
not urge them to become citir
sens.
The civic organizations of the
Hungarians should also help and
open citizenship classes imme
diately—not to get for men
CWA jobs but to make them
fulfill an obligation which they
have acquired by long residence
to.this country.
YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO 1934 FEBRUÁR 8.
Published Every/Thursday Meatelenik Minden Cslitörtökttn
Itt a névsor:
John Balogh, Mike Drozdik,
Steve Hozdik, Péter Hudák,
John Korán, Joseph Palyp,. John
Polinszky, László Szilcora, John
Vaskó, Steve Bokri, Geo. Ignátz,
Joseph Gregosits, Paul Orr, An
dy Pallay, John Szuhi, John Bpd
zás, Charles Lányi, Alex Lute
rán, John Danyi, Áron Aszta
los, John Demjén, John Gecse*
Dan. Kovács, Elek Kovács,,
Louis Máthé, Mrs. Nagy Ignác,
Mich. Rácz, Paul Schwartz, John
Sztankó, John Walter, Julius
Varga, Stephen Fenyő, Alex,
Kish, Andy Kolarovszky, Joe^J
Marton, Louis Mikó, Frank Ta
esik, Zsigmond Vaszi, Mrs. Ma~
ry Suba, Col. Horváth, John Ta
kács, Steve Turner, Frank Tót
Emery Takács, Mike Éles,
natz Hando, Julius Bokrir, M|
Horváth, Geo. Samu, Ant
Szűcs, Alex Liskó és Jc
Nagy.