Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-02-11 | Page 4 | Marrying an American

vu MARRYING AN AMERICAN I Women in America are obtain obtain- obtaining obtaining ing more rights each year but in 1921 when the v women omens somene cItizenship act was vas passed many a woman found new embarrassments be because because because cause the law discriminated against her herThe The limes times of ot Los Angeles out a few tew of ot the entanglements entanglement growing out of ot the time ne new lay law E E cry ry now and nd then the foreign lad lady v who ho v weds cds an American finds new difficulties Possibly her bus hus- husband's I bands band's business calls for tor him to tolie lie abroad abroad- perhaps abroad perhaps In the home homeland homeland hom homland l land of ot the wife But she Is now nowa nova a woman oman without a 11 The Th laws Jaws of ot America do not admit her herto herto to citizenship save upon hei hel 0 on n merits She must lie U e here a car caras caras nI I as II a a preliminary condition She does not become an American by b I wedding an but in mu her ber he home land Jand hei het marriage automatic automatic- automatically automatically ally nih cuts her oft off from citizenship If the husband dies she cannot oh ob obtain Cain a II passport for tor or travel from her husband s a government go Her legal lega and sod property rights are never certain certain tain lain She he cannot enter America I c as au an immigrant and if here the she cannot go back to the old oil I countr country because she Is now a for eigner and has baa to ito passport for I The foreign woman not only risk all that a II native woman does In the I of o but venture into a II labyrinth of uncertainties I when she gets gels an American hus- hus husband husband bus I band Those who invite the dan dangers dangers gers gere must mu t think an American bus hui husband band worth all aJl the rIsk rl k but many manya man a married woman might persuade them to the contrary for tor our dl- dl dl di loice 01 ce courts are RUng o 0 ei Ir ti mit