Show WifE CRA CATT TIEL CONGRESSMAN S SA IS Preserves Citizenship for Woman Woman Wo- Wo S man Marrying Alien WASHINGTON March 1 It It Is high time to get away from froin the old idea that the wife is the chattel of the husband husband husband hus hus- band Representative Ro Rogers ers Rep Massachusetts told the house immigration immigration immigration gration committee in urging enactment enactment enactment enact enact- ment of a law under which American Americ n women marrying aliens and remaining in this country countr would retain their citizenship after ater adoption of the suffrage suffrage suffrage suf suf- frage amendment Mr Rogers declared his measure did not protect wealthy American title hunters adding that he was not in interested interested interested in- in in extending the right of citizenship citizenship citizenship citi citi- to women who think so little of it that they KO go o abroad to live In pointing out that his measure would not give the right of citizenship citizenship citizenship citizen citizen- ship to an alien woman marrying an American Mr Rogers said this was done so that to be be- naturalized a woman would have to go through gh the same machinery with the man Mrs Maud Mauc Wood Park Paik pr president of the National League of Wom Women n Voters Indorsed the Rogers bill declaring It eminently fair to Americans 1 |