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DR. WENDELL AND
MR. WILLKIE
(Philadelphia Record)
Champions of Wendell Willkie
say that whatever you think of
their man you simply must ad
mit that he is a personality.
We admit it, cheerfully. We
go even further. We admit that
Willkie is at least two personal
ities. perhaps more.
As the campaign develops, in
deed, the split personality of
Willkie becomes its most re-;
markable phenomenon. For ex
ample:
J Willkie is both a conservative
and a liberal.
He says he is the hope of con-,
tarvatism and writes paeans to
conservatism in the conservative
Saturday Evening Post. He also
soys he is the hope of liberalism
tod writes liberal articles for
the liberal New Republic.
Willkie is a fanner in the Mid
west. In New York, he is what
takes called “a simple barefoot
Wall Street lawyer.”
Willkie has a home near the
Vabash where he’s “just folks;”;
another home along the Hudson
where he's “somebody," and he
says his heart really belongs way
down upon the Sewanee River, j
or at least in Ten-Ten-Tennessee,
where no doubt he’s just a hum
ble hillbilly.
W’illkie says he is a champion
Of power consumers and boasts I
Of lowering rates in his old Com
monwealth & Southern territory
(without mentioning how TVA
jmodded him along), and up
No ’th, where the bankers and j
brokers are wont to congregate,
he tells tall tales of how he got i
bigger profits for good old C. &
S. out of those selfsame con
sumers.
So it goes.
Willkie wants to give England
everything she wants to win —
and insists that the United Stat
es keep strictly out of the war.
Willkie is 100 percent for
peace—and 100 percent for lick
ing Hitler.
Willkie praises the New Deal
and promises to tear it up.
Willkie is, he says, a Demo
crat—and also a Republican.
This record betters that of the
god Janus, porter at the pearly
gates, who was given two faces
the better to catch people going
and coming. Indeed, it is match
ed only by the speech of that ven
erable candidate who got hs ju
leps mixed with his metaphors
and shouted:
“Folks, I am neither on the
one hand partial, nor on the oth
er hand impartial, but, like Cae
sar's wife, all things to all men.”
Registration
Of Aliens
An Address By
Lemuel B. Schofield, Special
Assistant to the Attorney Gen
eral in charge of Immigration
end Naturalization Service, De
partment of Justice.
(Continued from issue of Mon
day, Sept. 16, 1940.)
Almost all of them soon be
came useful, loyal, and welcome
residents of this, their adopted
Country. Many of them married
American citizens, and the child
ren of all of them, if born here,
became by operation of law, citi
zens of the United States. Hun
dreds of thousands of them took
advantage of our liberal citizen
ehip policy and became natural
ized, a process which gives to
the foreign-born resident the full
rights and the same citizen’s stat
us as the native born.
But, for one reason or another,
about three and one-half million
of them have not become citi
ens. One reason may be that we
have never adopted the unwise
policy of forcing citizenship upon
anyone. We have never set a
time limit and said to them, |
"You must become citizens or
get out.” Partly it is due to ig
norance. Partly it is because, es
pecially in times like these, the
orderly process of granting citi
zenship by court procedure af
ter careiul investigation is not
geared up to accomodate large
onrushes of applicants. There are
thousands of aliens in this coun
try who have declared their in
tention of becoming citizens, and
who are patiently awaiting their
turn.
But whatever, the reason may
be. the fact remains that we
have with us this large number
of aliens. For the most part, they
are here legally and most of
them have been admitted for per
manent residence. There can be
little doubt that the overwhelm
ing majority of them are decent,
loyal, hard-working, respectable
people, from whom this nation j
has nothing whatever to fear.
But a program of national de- j
fense must be adequate and com-!
plete. Nothing can be overlook- j
ed or neglected. We still have!
before us the tragic picture of!
those hapless nations who under
estimated the dangers which j
lurked behind their lines. This
Government must know every
thing it can learn about every
alien within our borders. It must
find out how many there are,
who they are and where they
are. It must know why they are
here, and what they are doing.
A Government to protect its own
can do nothing less.
And it must do so too for the
protection of the aliens themselv
es. These are dangerous days.
Emotions run 'high, and good
judgement and sound reason are
apt to be overridden by rash
ness and impetuous enthusiasm.
Hysteria must be kept down, and
race hatred and prejudice must
not be permitted to hold sway.
This Government cannot allow
the harmless, law-abiding, loyal
aien to be harrassed or persecut
ed by those who would act in
passion and haste under a gen
uine but mistaken sense of pat
riotism. And it can best protect
and safeguard those from other
lands who live here, if iit knows
all there is to know about them.
Thus all must agree that the
Congress acted wisely and well, |
in the interest of our national se
curity, when it decided last June
that every alien must be register
ed and every alien over fourteen
years of age fingerprinted with
in the four months’ period begin
ning August 27th. It will be not
ed that the statute applies to ev
ery alien. This means, generally
speaking, every foreign - born
man woman and child in the
United States and its possessions
who has not been naturalized.
All aliens over fourteen years of
age must register in person;'
children under fourteen must be
registered by their parents or
guardians. When a child reach
es the age of fourteen, he must
then register in person. More
over. after he has registered,
an alien must report every chan
ge of residence within five days
after he moves.
And let me emphasize that ev
en though one has declared his
intention of becoming a citizen
and has received his so-called
"first papers,” he is still an alien
in the eyes of the law and must
register
Registration is compulsory. Ev
ery alien MUST register. The
law provides a penalty in the
form of a fine and imprisonment
for failure to register, as well as
for refusal to be fingerprinted, in
tentionally giving false informa
tion, and falling to report chang
es of address.
Registration will consist of an
swering certain questions, such
as name, address, place of birth,
dote and place of entry into this
country, and occupation. Each
alien will be asked how long he
intends to remain in this country
and whether he has had any
military service either here or
abroad. He will be required to
list his activities and to name
any organizations of which he is a
member or in which he partici
pates and to state whether they
further the interests or program
of a foreign government.
So much for the nature and
purpose of the Alien Registra
tion Act. Now, as time will al
low, a few words about the man
ner in which it will be adminis
tered. As I have said, the Con
gress has placed upon the Depart
ment of Justice and the Post Of
fice Department the duty of car
rying out the provisions of this
Act, and these two great depart
ments of our Government are
working in close cooperation in
order that this huge task may be
carried out smoothly, efficiently,
and with as little disturbance in
the lives of our alien population
as possible.
The actual registration will be
handled by a trained; staff of
courteous, experienced postal em
ployees who will be on duty dur
ing the full period of registra
tion from August 27 th to Decern
ber 26th, inclusive, in every first
and second-class post office and
in the post office at every county
seat. The alien will be required
to go there and answer the ques
tions. Adequate provisions will
be made for those who are infirm
or bedridden or confined in insti
tutions. The answers to the ques
tions will be recorded by the
posta employes on official forms.
After they have been completed
the alien must sign his name and
swear to the truth of his answer.
His fingerprints will be made at
that time too. He will no>t 'be
cross-examined by anyone at the
post office, but he will be expect
ed to answer all the questions
accurately, completely and truth
fully.
These signed questionnaires
will be sent >to the Immigration
and Naturalization Service at
Washington where they will be
filed, indexed, and catalogued to
become a part of the permanent
records of that Service. Where
necessary, they will be checked
against other records, and investi
gations will be conducted,if rc
quired, to determine the accur
acy of the information thus ob
tained.
In due course everyone who
registers will receive through
the United States mail a regis
tered receipt card. This will be
his proof that he has registered
in compliance with the law. This
card should be preserved care
fully and it would be well to
have it readily available because
though the law does not require
an alien to carry it with him, it
does require every alien to regis
ter, and this card will be his
evidence that he has done so.
In order to make registration
easier, specimen forms of the
questionnaire with full instruc
tions as to each question and
how it should be answered will
be available at the various post
offices well before the first day
of registration, Augus 27h. These
instructions will contain an exact
duplicate of the official registra
tion blank, and it is urged that
every alien obtain a specimen
form as soon as possible, take it
home and study it, and fill it out
carefully. He should then take
it with him to the post office
when he goes to register, so that
he can quickly and readily an
swer accurately and completely
the same questions when asked
by the registering officer.
And now, a word about finger
printing. Everyone should under
stand that there is no stigma of
any kind attached to it. Hun
dreds of thousands of persons
have had their fingerprints taken
and recorded for identification
purposes. The day has passed in
this country when a fingerprint
file is regarded in any sense as
a ‘ Rogues’ Gallery.” It is simply
| a modern means of identification.
I
It is the most accurate way to
keep records straight and to
| identify them. Names may be
'changed, faces changed or even
i lifted; signatures may be forged;
I but no two sets of fingerprints
J have ever matcned. In the last
i war every man who served in
1 the Army, the Navy and the Ma
rine Corps was fingerprinted.
I Thousands of people are volun
i tarily fingerprinted every year,
i All Federal Civil Service w7ork
i res, all postal savings depositors
I and many others are fingerprint
ed as a matter of course. There
| is no disgrace to it, and no alien
should have the slightest com
punction in submitting to it.
Let me stress another point.
The alien need not fear that the
information he gives will be us
ed by the Government to harass
him or will be available to oth
ers to annoy him or discriminate
against him in any way. The law
provides that the records shall
be kept secret and confidential.
Nobody may examine them ex
cept with the express permission
of the Attorney General of the
United States. All may rest as
sured that Attorney General Ro
bert H. Jackson will see to it
that these records will not be
come available except to those
entitled to the information for
legitimate needs of national de
fense and for other proper gov
ernmental purposes.
Another point which should be
brought home to every alien is
that registration is absolutely
freej No official fee of any kind
is involved and no money need
be paid by the alien to anyone.
If doubt exists as to whether an
individual comes within the pro
visions of the law, as, for ex
ample, whether or not he is a
j citizen, which is often a com
plex and difficult legal question,
he shoud play safe and register.
If he has any doubt as to how to
answer some of the questions,
he should play safe and register,
to the nearest office of the Im
migration and Naturalization Ser
vice and make inquiry. He will
be furnished with all the help
which it is possible to give him,
and he cannot pay anything for
this advice. Already there have
been some complaints regarding
persons who are attempting to
take advantage of aliens and who
pretend that they can “fix
things’’ to avoid registration, or
i make things easier in answering
the questions, or eliminate some
of them. They offer this spurious
advice in return for a fee. The
alien should beware of the “reg
istration racketeer.”
Before I close, may I direct a
word especially to those of you
who ARE CITIZENS of the Unit
ed States? You can be of great
assistance in carrying out this
phase of the Defense Program.
Many of you have friends, rela
tives, or neighbors who are not
citizens. You can help your coun
try by helping them understand
the purpose of the Registration
Act and how its provisions will
be carried out. You can tell them
where to go to register and when
to go. You can be of particular
assistance to those who are not
familiar with our language, and
who may have difficulty in read
ing and understanding the ques
tions, and above all, you can !
point out to your alien friends or
acquaintances the necessity for
them to register and can urge j
them to do so as soon as they can j
after the period of registration
opens on August 27th. so that
there will not be a large last
minute rush when the period
ends on December 26th.
Above all, you can make clear,
to your alien friends that regis
tration is intended by the Gov
ernment for the protection of
aliens as well as for the protec
tion of our country.
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