Show S Bolshevist Brides rp nr HE war has served ser to lay bare a curious incongruity Sa THE T in ill fl our our naturalization laws That is the thc provision making r the nationality of or the wife turn upon the tho nationality nationality na nn- na- na of ot the husband The American soldiers returning re re- re- re turning from Vladivostok for for instance are bringing I with them great numbers of brides Of course the communities communities com com- into info which they may domi domicile will w welcome them and spread orange blossoms and American Beauty roses jn their path wishing them of wedded bliss add alid all n that Anything less than th the most cordial reception reception re- re would be an affront to the of our Yankee doughboys dou hbo's for whom we have an m overwhelming iI national pride and a warm personal regard rc t SO Sonic lC of the brides may be rabid Bolshevists perhaps perhaps per per- haps with a lu lurking fondness for making and hurling bombs and other Russian playthings They may ma be the daughters of nihilists Marxists anarchists or any other breed of or terrorists of which that distracted country isso is is' isso so prolific Immediately these young women step foot on our shores they thoy are as wives of Ameli American an citizens entitled to all the privileges of citizenship without submitting sub sub- mittin to an any of the tests the laws would apply appl to their fathers or brothers Of or course it is not to be anticipated they arc are going to organize form a n second Russian battalion of death and march on un r tou but bul their eligibility to citizenship citizenship citizenship cit cit- cit cit- serves es to illustrate the anomaly in our law which was framed under the old fashioned idea ide that thata a wife was s a n sort of chattel of or her husband huband Conversely Con if iC a nat native e born horn girl gill marries warries an cd fo foreigner foreign foreign- j n- n er cr she at once loses her liet citizenship Inasmuch as us the vote rotc of of only one state s stands an s the between women en and fuU p political equality it is IS time the thc naturalization laws s A yer cre overhauled a trifle S |