Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-10-25 | Page 6 | More Significant than Usual

gesture of congratulation to the nition, iti people peo-ple and the scheme of living about which wi proudly bout? It ii wall to remind ouraelvei, if wa ara native Americana, that we are auch by the accident of birth, that theae newoomeri are Americana by choice. More Significant Than Usual rr IS ALWAYS significant when tha foreign-born foreign-born ga before the courts to acquire American citizenship through naturalization, but somehow it seems to be more significant than usual in this time of world turmoil. It was pleasant reading, to citizens who have time to think about something other than their own partisan, economic and recreational interests, inter-ests, that on naturalization day in the Third dis-' dis-' trict court before Judge P. C, Evans 108 aliens appeared to "take out" citizenship papers. It Is evident that for a variety of reason! these men and women from Czechoslovakia. Russia, Poland. Switzerland, Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Greece feel that the United States offers them more that their hearts desire than they could gain In their native lands. There are many things and circumstances in any individual ! birthplace which go to make, up a bond that never can be destroyed or broken. Even children coming to this country own to it even though they cannot formulate a reason for it in their own minds. But no one can offer a sufficient and conclusive basis when he voices the oft-heard pronouncement that a naturalized citizen should cast oft all sentimental attachment attach-ment to the land where he was born. That ii true because It is both humanly impossible and wholly Unnecessary. There are few exception! to the rule that our naturalized citizens manifest loyalty to American principles, abide by the laws of this country, establish themselves in American society and live the American way. They are good citizens, make their contributions to national progress and are good neighbors. Public records establish that tha average naturalized alien stands on a par in all particulars with the native born. In their blood are the same characteristics as flowed in the blood of every native-born American's forbears, for-bears, ' More important than all this is that they find - full realization of the hopes and aspirations which drew them to the United States. This become to large extent a responsibility of the native-born, the responsibility of setting the good example and furnishing a pattern for them to follow after. It was a fitting thing that members mem-bers of the D. A. R. were on hand in court to . present to each of these from distant lands an American flag as a symbol of things American and to (rip their hands in fellowship. Each was congratulated upon qualifying as a citizen, b not their desire to become one with us a