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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1921
Under the title, "Our Mis
sions," the Society of the Divine
Word, which conducts schools for
the training of foreign mission
aries at Tecliny, 111., and Girard,
Pa., has just published the first
number of a new magazine devot
ed entirely to the advancement of
the missionary activities of its rep
resentatives in this country, in
South America, and in Asia.
There are now some twenty mis
sion magazines in this country.
Apropos of Secretary Houston's
proposal to levy a larger income
tax on small incomes because
that on high incomes difficult to
collect, the New Republic is re
minded of a remark made by Gros
venor Atterbury at a recent hous
ing conference. "Taxes," he said,
"are like the rain that falls on the
just and the unjust but it is usu
ally the unjust fellow who holds
the umbrella."
Les Petites Annales de Marie
Immaculee records the story of a
French officer who found on the
battlefield a little ciborium con
taining some Sacred Hosts. As
the chaplain was nearly two miles
away, the officer walked .that dis
tance bareheaded, carrying the
ciborium, whilst the shells were
whistling around him.
A motion to allow wonpxt to
vote for elections to the Evangel
ical Church Councils has been
Wocked by the Council of the Can
ton of Zurich, and also a plan to
make women elegible for election
to the synods. On the other hand,
tljie Zurich Church Council has
passed a temporary measure, by
which women may be admitted to
the pastorate. At the present
time two women candidates have
passed all their examinations in
theology, and have been ordained
to the Protestant ministry in
Switzerland.
If Allen McDonald, member of a
gang convicted of having par
ticipated in brutal attacks on
girls, lives to pay the penalty im
posed by Judge Ward, of San
Francisco, he will remain behind
the bars of San Quentin prison for
100 years. Judge Ward gave the
limit—an indeterminate sentence
of from 1 to 50 years—on each of
the two charges on which McDon
ald had been convicted. He is
said to be a college graduate.
Would it be possible to engage the
services of Judge Ward for St,
Paul?
Anti-clerical influence in the
Education Department of Belgium
is evident from modifications re
cently made in the curriculum for
training colleges. Aspirant kind
ergarten-teachers are no longer re
quired to learn their duties to
wards God, and the chapters in
history dealing with the introduc
tion of Christianity into Belgium
and the Monasteries have been
suppressed. On the other hand
pupils must know the "Declara
tion of the Rights of Man."
It would be impossible to exag
gerate the importance of the Gen
eral Intention recommended to us
by our Holy Father for the month
of February. He asks us to pray
in particular for Christian educa
tion. The wave of crime and im
morality of every kind that
threatens to engulf our civiliza
tion is due to the fact that man
lias forgotten God. The moment
a people lose consciousness of their
responsibility to God they will run
into crime. The present crime
ivave was not caused by the war,
^t may be true that the-war of
fered occasion and temptation but
It only put into operation that de
pravity which must come to a peo
ple who have forgotten their God.
The remedy lies in Christian edu
cation. It is the only remedy that
will save the future.
Even mothers' modern dress
came in for a scoring by Mrs. I. C.
Miller, president of the Spring
field, 111., Improvement League in
opening a campaign against nn
chaperoned dances, immodest
dresses, and excessive use of pow
ders and paints. "Mothers are to
blame in many cases," said Mrs.
Miller, "as they often dress more
immodestly than their daughters
and put on the war paint just as
thick. And some of the women
seen on the streets don't wear
enough clothes to wad a shotgun."
A SPIRITUAL ARMISTICE.
Lent is pre-eminently a^ime of
introspection it is a spiritual
armistice concluded with the af
fairs of the world. During that
time the Christian, ill a certain
sense, lays aside the arms of his
material struggle and seeks to re
pair the wastage of war in his
spiritual life. The wise man
makes good use of this period of
surcease from worldly toil and
sets in order the house of his soul.
Every man knows that he is
placed on earth for a short time:
even the longest life is but a flash,
or less, in the vastness of eternity.
And yet how few act as if they
realized this tremendous truth.
The majority of men give them
selves up unreservedly to things
of earth they center all effort and,
ambition in striving to appear a'
little better than their fellows to
this end they ignore the law of
charity, the dictates of justice, the
plain conclusions of common
sense.
Take a stroll through the local
cemetery. Pick out the graves of
those whom you knew in life. Re
call the struggle and hatreds and
enmities evoked and aroused by
certain ones who now lie quietly
in the charnel house of death.
Does not one experience a feeling
of revulsion, of disgust even to
wards the tomb of those proud,
unbending creatures who caused
such suffering and misery and
heart-aches in their lives? One
may utter a hope that they are at
peace, but the disgust remains.
In presence of the grave of one
who loved his fellow-man, who
was helpful and kind and just, a
reverence arises in the soul and we
ook with sadness upon the rest
ing place of one who lived and
worked and wrought for his kind.
A prayer involuntarily springs to
be lips for his eternal repose and
the happiness that he earned.
Lent is a good time to think
over such matters, and to point
them towards the eternity that is
fast approaching. What will
avail to have climbed over your
fellow-men to reach a position of
fancied superiority, while in the
process you crushed him down like
worm? God does not always
punish with swiftness, but the lot
of such an one is not difficult to
surmise. Lent is a time for balanc
ing standards, for weighing values
and for making practical resolu
tions accordingly. It will come
only once this year: next year you
may have to abide by your
present decisions.
ONE LAW FOR ALL.
Among the causes of dissatisfac
tion and dissension in the relations
between man and man may be
numbered the unfairness, the un
equality with which existing laws
are applied. Much of the injus
tice in the world arises from this
source, much of the crime and less
er evils may be traced directly to
the man who thus tampers with
the law of impartial justice.
Starting in the family, one often
sees a parent hold one child
strictly to account for every slight
infraction of the domestic law
another child is excused, is laugh
ed at, petted along when he breaks
a rule or violates a parental com
mand. The result? One child
comes to look upon all law as
irksome and hateful, later trans
ferring his hatred to those in au
thority while the pampered one
forever seeks a loophole—and
usually finds one—from every
legal observance. In after life
these two will likely develop into
the tyrant and the chronic, shifty
evader of all law.
The same is true in the wider
sphere of business or social rela
tions. One man is made to walk
the chalk-mark, while the other is
permitted to detotir at pleasure
one violates a lesser law, and he is
immediately hauled off to court as
a dangerous criminal: the other
breaks serious laws, and he fs
gently admonished to be careful
next time. In this fairness be
tween men? Is it equality? Is it
using plain common sense? Is it
not rather fomenting a spirit of
unrest that sooner or later will
break out and endanger the busi
ness, the society, institution or
other social unit? Sometimes a
man on the edge of a precipice is
pushed over aiid then blamed for
falling.
In the large field of national life1 w» the pastor.
the same injustice is found to ex
ist. If a poor man makes a little
"hootch," steals a coat, robs a
store of a few dollars, he is brand
ed as a double-dyed criminal and
given the limit qr close to it: let a
man of position or wealth commit
a real crime, one that calls for the
full measure of inexorable justice,
and the chances are that in some
way or other he will either escape
entirely or be let off with a nom
inal punishment—a small fine, or
a suspended sentence.
Now, it is conditions such as
these that produce the socialist,
the defier of law, the disgruntled
citizen, the hypocrite and, inev
itably, a lower standard of mor
ality and living in general. Ap
ply this to a family, an institution,
a community large or small, and
you have the cause of half the
trouble and unrest and inefficiency
and disturbed condition, where
peace and strength and efficiency
and harmony should reign.
Let those representing author
ity play no favorites let them ad
minister the law equally and im
partially, without fear or favor,
holding before their eyes the stand
ard of justice and fairness to all,
and human relations would be ele
vated and purified to an unbe
lievable extent. But just so long
as authority is made to serve for
the benefit of him who exercises
it, the respect for that authority
is bound to diminish and the cause
which it represents will infallibly
suffer in proportion.
WHY NOT TRY IT HERE?
Reports from France state that
in that country there is a very no*
tieeable revival of interest in the
Sacred Liturgy of the Church.
This interest is not merely among
the clergy, who always are in
touch with such matters, but it
seems to have aroused the laity to
the real meaning of the holy
rites of religion. As a result, the
people have taken with avidity to
the practice of using a missal,
printed in the vernacular, by
means of which they follow the
priest during the different parts
of the Mass.
The Holy Sacrifice is offered by
the priest for the people. They as
sist at the wondrous action, but
often their minds and attention
are distracted in countless direc
tions. There ip lacking, as a rule,
an intelligent union with the
priest at the altar. Many persons
have not the faintest idea of the
meaning of the various parts of
the great Sacrifice. They sit,
stand or kneel on signal. In the
meantime, while some piously re
cite the rosary, or read a prayer
book, many others either remain
listless or look about with ill-con
cealed ennui and boredom.
The prayers of the Mass are of
such beauty, power and strength
that they lift the soul to God al
most involuntarily. The words of
Scripture, that form a consider
able part of the whole ceremony,
awaken a response in the heart
and rivet the attention of the
reader on the Divine. The vari
ous orations and special prayers
come down from ancient times, la
den with the fragrance and sweet
ness imparted by saint and apos
tle.
The custom now in vogue in
France is worthy of imitation in
this country, it will give our
people a better appreciation of the
real, substantial beauties of their
faith, and it will unite them more
closely to the central object of our
belief and worship which is Christ
our Lord in the sublime Sacrifice
of its altar.
COLLEGE FBI*! DUD
DEATH TAKES REVEREND RED
MOND J. WALSH, S. J.
The Rev. Redmond J. Walsh, S. J.,
President of St. Joseph's College in
Philadelphia and rector of The Gesu
there, died Thursday of last week at
a sanitarium in Summit, N. J., aftet
an illness of six months. Father
Walsh was a prominent member of the
Society of Jesus. He was born in
New York in 1875, studied first at St.
Francis Xavier's and later at Freder
ick and Woodstock, Md., being or
dained at Woodstock in 1905. He had
served as Vice-President of Boston
College for three years before becom
ing President of St. Joseph's.
GIFT TO THE MASSILLON, OHIO,
CHURCH NOW BEING IN
STALLED
What is probably the largest church
organ in Ohio is being installed in
St. Mary Church, Masillon, Ohio, and
is expected to be ready for use on
Easter Sunday. The organ will have
five divisions—choir, great, solo, echo
and pedal organs, with a wide selec
tion of stops, such as vox humana,
unda maris, harmonia aetheria, ce
lestial harp, glockenspiel, chimes, etc.
The main organ, in the loft is 36
feet wide, 27 feet deep and 30 feet
high, the laTgest pipe being 32 feet
long and the smallest one-half inch In
length. The echo organ will be con
cealed behind the handsome new altar
The magnificent instrument is the gift
of a friend of Rev. Michael Vollmay-
THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN, FEBRUARY 3, 1921..
ANGLO FIEND1SHNESS
IRISHMAN'S DEVOTION CAUSES
HIS MURDER—CHURCHES IN.
VADED—PRIESTS ORDERED OUT
In all Catholic houses, especially in
the rural districts, the Irish light
candles on the night of the Feast of
the Epiphany, popularly called "Lit
tle Christmas." The candles are kept
lighting all night. John Murphy, an
aged widower living alone in New
market, County Cork, lighted a can
dle in honor of Little Christmas, put
it near the window, and shortly aft
erwards retired. A military patrol, at
tracted by the light, knocked at the
door, but as he was deaf the old man
did not hear at first. When ultimate
ly aroused he got up and, coming to
the window exclaimed, "I am a lone
man here." A shot rang out and pen
etrating liis neck a bullet lodged in
his shoulder. He remained in the
house all night, bleeding from the
wound. In the morning he was re
moved to a hospital in an exhausted
condition. He is not expected to live.
On the Feast of the Epiphany, the
Church of Watergrasshill, near Cork
City, was surrounded by Crown forces
while the people were at Mass. The
collector at the main entrance was
ordered to close the doors. As he re
fused to do so, the armed forces of
the Government closed them. When
the devotions had concluded, women
and girls were allowed to leave the
church but they were not permitted
to pass a cordon formed outside. The
men were searched one by one as they
were leaving. The Rev. J. Russell,
P. P., remonstrated, saying that the
proper place for such work was the
public highway. The search was con
tinued outside the church grounds.
Troops engaged in carrying out the
burnings at Meelin, County of Cork,
ordered by the Military Governor, en
tered the Church where a number of
people were preparing for confession.
The parish priest was held up at the
Church gate and everyone inside, in
cluding the Curate, who was hearing
confessions, was ordered out,
THE CELTIC CROSS
ARCHBISHOP MUNDELEIN
DORSES WORK OF IRISH
RELIEF.
is president.
I
IN-
Archbishop Mundelein of Chicago
has indorsed the work of the Celtic
Cross, which has been established by
American women of Irish descent to
do for suffering people of Ireland that
which the American Red Cross has re
fused to do. "The people of Ireland
are certainly suffering at the present
time," the archbishop writes, "and if
help is to come to them, it can only
come from those of their own blood
and race in this country." Mrs. Mary
F. McWhorter, national president of
the Ladies' Auxiliary of the A.
O. H.,
PLEADS FOR Willi
"Austria is like a head severed from
the body, struggling with horrors of
poverty and despair," said Pope Bene
dict XV in an appeal issued January
25 in behalf of Austria. The Pontiff
urged the signatories of the Austrian
treaty to effect a solution, but he re
frains from making any suggestions
because it is a political question."
BISHOP O'REILLY BEARS BEAU
FUL GIFT FOR POPE
Bishop O'Reilly of Lincoln Neb., will
leave for Rome on February 5, taking
passage on the White Star liner Ced
ric, to make his official visit to the
Holy Father and present the report
of the Diocese of Lincoln. The Bishop
will be in Rome during Holy Week
and will present the members of his
party to the Holy Father at a public
audience that has been obtained for
the purpose.
The Bishop is the bearer of a beau
tifully illuminated Latin address
which he will read to the Holy Fa
ther on the occasion. This scroll is
the work of a Sister of the Domini
can Order of St. Rose's School, Han
ford, California, and is a splendid im
itation of the miniature writing and
illumination that the monks in the
middle ages used in making copies of
the Bible, Missal and other books,
specimens of which are highly treas
ured and preserved in museums in
this country.
A MEMORIAL CHAPEL
CHAPLAIN URGES MEMORIAL IN
ARLINGTON CEMETERY.
Consideration of the need of Arling
ton National Cemetery for an interde
nominational chapel is asked of the
American Legion, the executive com
mittee of which met in Washington
this week for the purpose of consider
ing the Knights of Columbus' offer of
$5,000,000 for a permanent' memorial
to soldiers and sailors, by the Rev. Ig
natius Fealy, chaplain of Fort Myer.
Father Fealy's letter to Frederick
W. Galbraith, supreme commander of
the Legion, is a follows:
"Worthy Sir and Comrade:
"May I not ask you and your asso
ciates to consider the needs of Arling
ton Memorial Cemetery for an inter
denominational chapel when you come
to discuss, on February 2, the $5,000,
000 memorial proposed by the Knights
of Columbus? Colonel Drain will be
glad to inform you that the site, over
looking the nation's capital, would be
most suitable. More than twelve hun
dred soldiers of this post could make
use of it on Sundays."
Father Fealy has asked the support
of Catholics, who saw service, for his
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DU OLEICM
NEW HEAD FOR N. C. W. C.'S BU
REAU OF EDUCATION—PLANS
TO CO-ORDINATE WORK OF
CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONS ALONG
EVERY LINE.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Arthur C. Monahan, lately specialist
of the United States Bureau of Edu
cation, has been appointed director of
the Bureau of Education, National
Catholic Welfare Council, and has be
gun to carry out the purposes of the
organization. The Bureau operates
under the (direction of the Department
of Education of the Welfare Council.
Most Rev. Austin Dowling, Archbish
op of St. Paul, is chairman of the De
partment of Education.
Already Director Monahan has in
itiated the work of established a clear
ing house of information concerning
Catholic education and Catholic edu
cation agencies an advisory agency
to assist Catholic education systems
and institutions in their development
a connecting agency between Catholic
education activities and Government
education agencies and an active or
ganization to safe-guard the. interests
of Catholic education.
Plans of Bureau.
It is intended that the Bureau shall
establish and maintain relations witfr
the officials in charge of the diocesan
parochial school systems, with the of
ficers of schools conducted by religious
orders, and with individual schools,
colleges, universities and other educa
tional institutions. Contact will be
formed and sustained with the various
Federal educational agencies, and with
national educational organizations,
such as the National Education Asso
ciation and the American Council on
Education, and with Rockefeller Foun
dation, the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching, and the
like.
What is regarded as a particularly
important function of the Bureau is
that of gathering complete information
concerning Catholic schools and col
leges and other institutions of learn
ing so as to furnish these facts to
Catholic educators, to the United
States Bureau of Education and to the
general public. There will be pub
lished by the Bureau an annual direc
tory of Catholic schools and school of
ficials, to supply parents and the gen
eral public with information respect
ing individual schools, their courses,
cost of tuition and the like. It is plan
ned that the Bureau will be prepared
to give advice to Catholic educators
on the subject of education methods,
equipment, building, organization su
pervision and training, and to assist
Catholic schools in finding teachers on
one hand and to aid qualified teachers
to positions on the other.
In the twenty years since his gradua
tion from College, Director Monahan
has been connected with education as
a public school teacher and supervisor
and as a specialist in the United States
Bureau of Education. He oomes to the
directorship of the bureau after three
years' service as a Major in the United
States Army in charge of the educa
tional work for the rehabilitation of
disabled soldiers in military hospitals.
During more than seven years' con
nection with the United States Bureau
of Education he personally investigat
ed school conditions in practically
every state in the Union, in several
Provinces in Canada, and in various
European countries. He is the author
of about forty bulletins published by
the United States Bureau of Educa
tion.
Mr. Monahan'a Career.
Mr. Monahan was born in Mas
sachusetts in 1877, and after attend
ing the public schools of Framing
ham, was graduated from the Mas
sachusetts Agricultural College. Sub
sequently he completed graduate
courses in educational given by the
extension service of Amherst College.
He has held the position of teacher,
principal of high schools and super
visor in the public schools of Massa
chusetts, and was for a time instructor
in the Massachusetts Agricultural Col
lege.
HARDING'S SECRETARY
CHOICE OF PRESIDENT-ELECT
LAUDED BY MASONS.
Pride and pleasure at the fact that
George C. Christian, secretary to Pres
ident-elect Harding, is a Mason and
a Knight Templar, were expresed by
Archibald G. Smith, grand commander
of the Grand Commandery of New
Jersey, in an address he delivered to
members of the fraternity at the Ma
sonic Temple in Baltimore. In the
course of the same address, Mr. Smith
charged that Masonic activities in the
military camps had been impeded by
persons whom he did not name. Some
of his hearers understood him to re
fer to President Wilson and Secretary
P. J. Tumulty.
Mr. Smith spoke-of "two men from
New Jersey who are prominent na
tionally." One, he said, was secreta
ry to the other, "whose mail he reads."
Questioned by a reporter after his ad
dress as to his references to condi
tions during the war, Mr. Smith said
this was common knowledge among
Masons, but he refused to specify what
he meant.
FOR HEW CATHEDR/U.
BISHOP'S PERSONAL CANVASS
THROUGHOUT DIOCESE
Last Sunday morning Rt. Rev. Bish
op McCort made an eloquent person
al appeal for funds for the proposed
new cathedral at each Mass celebrat
ed at St. John Pro-Cathedral, Altoona,
Pa.
The Bishop will personally address
every congregation of the diocese in
behalf of the new cathedral fund and
contributions of $50, $100, $1,000 and
$10,000 will be asked, according to
Jhe mean* ottha doaet*:"^
A :, i.
THE SOCIAL QUESTION
CATECHI8M WILL SOON BE IS*
SUED—TO BE TRANSLATED
INTO SIX LANGUAGES.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
A Catechism of the Social Question,
published by the Department of So
cial Action of the National Catholic
Welfare Council, is now in the hands
of the publishers and promises to be a
distinct contribution to the solution of
the industrial problems which affect
the nation today.
The book is the joint product of
Rev. Dr. John A. Ryan and Rev. R. A.
McGowan. The first section concerns
the sources of the social problem, in
cluding conditions in production, buy
ing and selling, distribution and living.
Ineffective solutions, such as Social
ism and single tax, are grouped under
the second section and a discussion
of possible effective solutions is in
cluded in the third section. It defines
the labor problem as the "social
question" because it affects more men
and women and calls forth more pro
posals of social change than any other
social problem.
The book, which Is being published
by the Paulist Press, is to be trans
lated into German, Polish, Bohemian,
Slovak, Italian and Slovenian.
OP-EIECT TIEF
Father Francis J. Tief, recently ap
pointed bishop of Concordia, Kan., has
been given a purse of $2,000 by the
Cathedral parishioners of Kansas City.
The money will be used in the pur
chase Ot vestments.
RACE SUICIDE
LOSSES IN BIRTHS DECLINE IN
FRANCE.
France is beginning to win in its
war against race suicide. Statistics
for 1921 show that for the first time
in many years the birth-rate exceeded
the death rate. The figures are in
complete, but are based on statistics
from such widely separated places as
Marseilles, Chalon and Diepp.
Just before the war, the birth rate
equalled the death rate, and during
the struggle there was an appalling in
crease in the proportion of graves as
against cradles.
Great credit for the improvement
is given to the late Cardinal Amette,
to whom the Minister of Public In
struction paid a gracious tribute at
the last meeting of the French War Or*,
phans' Supreme Board. It was an
nounced that Cardinal Dubois will
succeed Cardinal Amette on the Board,
which has reported that the number of
orphans adopted by the nation in 1921
was increased by 226,000 to a total of
700,000.
WILL HAVE_SEM1NARY
The dream of & century of bishops
and archbishops of New Orleans has
been realized in the subscription of a
million dollar fund for the erection of
a major seminary in that city.
The campaign, which opened Janu
ary 10 with a' parade of 10,000, was
brought to its successful conclusion at
the end of ten days with the announce
ment of Charles I. Denechaud, chair
man of the committee of twenty-five,
that the goal had been reached.
ANTI-BUY BILL
NEEDED LAW IS INTRODUCED
INTO WASHINGTON LEGIS
LATURE.
A bill which makes it a misdemean
or "to publish by printing, or signs, or
pictures, malicious caricatures tend
ing to impeach the honesty, virtue, rep
utation, character or patriotism of the
people of any religious denomination
or sect, thereby exposing them to pub
lic ridicule, hatred or prejudice," has
been introduced into the Washington
state legislature by Representative J.
D. Bassett of Spokane.
"This bill was suggested to me by
one of my constituents of the Jewish
faith," said Representative Bassett.
"I believe there is need for this legis
lation in order that malicious individ
uals who seek to stir up strife in the
community' by libeling the members
of any religious denomination may be
properly dealt with."
The "neasure, which has been refer
red to the judiciary committee, is ex
pected to have the support of peace
loving citizens of every denomination.
SOCIAL SERVICE CLASSES
BOSTON'S SOCIAL SERVICE
SCHOOL PROVEN SUCCESS—
OVER 1.40C- STUDENTS
That classroom Instruction in the
fundamentals of social service given
under Catholic auspices and from the
Catholic point of view, is of positive
value to the whole community, has
been proved in Boston.
Eight years ago, under direction of
the Catholic Bureau, a diocesan insti
tution for the coordination of all char
itable work, lecture courses on chari
table and social problems were first
given in conjunction with other eve
ning classes of the Young Men's Cath
olic Association. The lectures were
supplemented by field work under su
pervision of the charitable bureau, of
which Rev. Michael
J.
Scanlan is di
rector.
To date more than 1,400 young men
and women have taken these courses.
And what is more important, as a re
sult of their classroom and field work,
hundreds of them, in open civil serv
ice competition, have won berths in
state and municipal charity and social
service bureaus, besides other ,&un«
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CITIZENSHIP C0L11
Chapter XV.—Naturalization.
LESSON 1.
1. Q. What are the three steps
in
the process of naturalization?
A. First, "The Declaration of In
tention" second, "The Petition for
Naturalization" third, "The Final
Hearings in Open Court."
2. Q. Who may make "Tlie Dec
laration of Intention?"
A. Any immigrant who has
reached the age of 18 years and de
sires to be a citizen of* the United
States.
3. Q. Where must an immigrant go
to make "The Declaration of Inten
tion?"
A. He must go to the office of
the Clerk of the United States Dis
trict Court, or to any State court of
record in the district or county where
he lives.
4. Q. When may an immigrant
make a request for his "First Paper"
or "Declaration of Intention?"
A. An immigrant may make a
request for "First Paper" any time
after he arrives in the United States.
5. Q. Does the immigrant need to
know how to speak or write English
before securing his "First Paper?"
A. No, he does not need to
know English before securing his
"First Paper?"
6. Q. What is the only thing re
quired of an immigrant who wishes
his "First Paper?"
A. He must take an oath that
"it is his honest intention to become
a citizen of the United States."
7. Q. When an immigrant goes to
court what must he do?
A. He is given a paper called
"The Declaration of Intention," which
must be filled out.
8. Q. What is done with this pa
perf
A. It is given to the clerk of the
court, who later returns it to the im
migrant.
9. Q. Is there any fee collected by
the court for this service?
A. Yes, there is a fee of one dol
lar.
10. Q. What facts must be stated in
the "First Paper?"
A. The main facts which must
be stated are: Name, age, occupa
tion, date of arrival in the United
States, name of vessel on which ap
plicant arrived, and present address.
11. Q. If an applicant is known by
more than one name, must these be
stated?
A. Yes, all names by which the
applicant is known must be stated, as
well as his full true name.
LESSONS.
1. Q. How long must an immigrant
reside in the United States before re
ceiving his "Certificate of Naturaliza
tion?"
A. An applicant must have re
sided here at least five years imme
diately preceding the date of his ap
plication.
2. Q. How long must he have lived
in the state?
A. He must have lived at least
one year within the state or territory
where he files his petition.
3. Q. How long must he have lived
in America since he received his
"First Paper?"
A. He must have lived here at
least two years and not more than
seven since he received his "First
Paper."
4. Q. Where must the applicant go
for his "Second Paper?"
A. He must go to the same court
where he received his "First Paper,"
or to any court of naturalization in
the district where he has resided a
year.
5. Q. What papers must he take
with him?
A. He must take with him his
"First Paper" and a "Certificate of
Arrival" if he has come to America
since June 29, 1906.
6. Q. What is the "Certificate of
Arrival?"
A. It is a form certifying to tle
name and age of the applicant, the
name of the ship on which he came,
the date of arrival and his last place
of residence.
7. Q. Where may this form le sc
oured?
A. This form may be secured
from the office of the county clerk.
8. Q. Must the applicant have wit
nesses?
A. Yes, he must have two wit
nesses who are citizens of the United
States.
9. Q. What must the witnesses be
able to swear to about the applicant?
A. They must be able to swear
that they have known him at least fivo
years in the United States, and to tes
tify as to his fitness for citizenship.
10. Q. What are some things which
make an applicant fit for citizenship?
A. To be fit for citizenship in
the United States an applicant must
be of good moral character, must be
able to read and write, must know
something about the government and
history of the United States. Ha
must not be a criminal, or believe in
polygamy, or be opposed to organized
government.
11. Q. If the testimony of the ap
plicant and the witnesses is satisfac
tory to the naturalization examiner,
what is then done?
A. If the testimony of applicant
and witnesses is satisfactory, the ap
plicant is given a certificate showing
the number of his application as .lied
in court.
dreds that have gone with the Red
Cross and a host of smaller private or
semi-private organizations for social
betterment work.
One lecture a week, over
a
period,
of six months, is given in the class
room. In addition to the classroom
work and the field work under direc
tion of the charities bureau, several
evenings are set aside for discussions
of case work. A question box affords
opportunity to all members of the
class to make inquiries regarding mat
ters of particular interest to them.
This winter 105 young men and
tropea Are taking the coum.
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