Show Alien Registration Begins REGISTRATION p of ot an an estimated aliens In the United United States started Monday of this week In Utah approximately are scheduled to be registered The program got under way without a hitch hitchIn hitchin In fn Salt Lake City with a number of aliens allens of this city registering the first day It Is to be hoped that the entire registration will be carried through without difficulty Certainly there Is no reason why aliens in the United States should object to the Inauguration Jn lit this nation of a system which has long been accepted as a matter of course in their native lands It Is perhaps significant that the chief protest protest pro pro- test to alien registration in this country has come from Germany and Italy two countries which have proved themselves past masters In Inthe the art of regimenting not only aliens but everyone In their lands One protest voiced by byS bya S a a. leading fascist in his newspaper Regime f charged that America was making it ita a crime f for r a a. person to belong to the people 5 5 who produced Columbus declaring that AmerIca America Amer Amer- ica lea was fingerprinting Italians and Germans as asIf asif asit If it they were criminals Well In the first place there Is absolutely no stigma attached to the act of registration or orthe orthe orthe the act of fingerprinting in America American citizens accept without the slightest question the regulation that they must be registered In order to vote ote Applicants for civil service positions positions lions accept fingerprinting as the most sensible method of establishing their identity In the second place the purpose of registration tion Is just as much to protect good aliens as it itIs itIs itis Is to expose bad ones This nation from a precautionary precautionary pre pre- cautionary standpoint believes It advisable to know just who the aliens In America are how anc why they entered this country and just what they arc are doing here We certainly dont don't intend to keep in this country any aliens who are abu abusing our hospitality and working directly directly di di- or Indirectly to destroy this nation Naturally any alien who fails falls to register or orIn orin orin in any way seeks to block the registration program pro pro- gram will be suspect In addition he is subject to fine imprisonment and deportation Therefore Therefore There There- fore lore from Irom the standpoint of common sense if It not compliance with the laws of ot their host country aliens and organizations including large numbers of ot aliens in their membership ought to cooperate in seeing to It that the registration in Utah and in the nation is complete com corn and made with the least delay and dif dif- |