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Show FOREIGN SOI SEIGFJTS AT HARDING PORCH Menace of Organized Hyphenated Hyphen-ated Vote Pointed Out by Candidate MARION. O., Sept. IS. Amerlean- , ism. Its meaning to the foreign-born eiitzen and the danger of a hyphen- ated eltlzenshlp was the Keynote of an address delivered from his front porch today to delegations of forelgn-Lioiii forelgn-Lioiii eltl?.fiis l. Senator Harding, Ke-j publican presidential candidate. The delegation j, comprising several I hundred, came from New York, Chi-eago Chi-eago and cities of the northwest and Cleveland W hile declaring 0at "It Is not po-' slble, and ought not to he expected,! ' thai Americans of foreign birth shall' stifle love for kinsfolk In tho lands! 'from which they eame." tho senator ', asserted that "we are unalterably j I against any present or ititure hyphen- ated Americanism." Senator Harding was Interrupted many times during his address by ap- plausc as he struck a sympathetic! , note. Touching upon foreign relations, the senator declared that 'noihlng helpful has come from the willful as-; sumption to direct the affairs of Eu-; ' rope, "hut that, on the contrary, the, mistaken policy of Interference hos broken the draw strings of good sense , and spilled bad council and bad man-) hen al over the world." Hi: s . im MEDDUNG "Middling abroad," he asserted, j "tends to make Americans forget that they are Americans and to arouso the ! old and tittrr feelings of race or former nationality or foreign ancestry In tin hearts of tho.se who ought I never been enforced to turn their i ! hearts away from undivided loyalty mid Interest given 'to America first.'" Warning against byphenlSJU, Sen-I Sen-I ator Harding averted that "the time1 might come when a group or groups of men and women of foreign birth I I or foreign parentage, not organized i for the interest of America, but or-ganslcd or-ganslcd around a resentment against) our government! might press, ny propaganda prop-aganda and political hyphenlsm, uponi 'our government to serve their own ln-1 (crests lather than the interest of aj! America. It la beyond possibility, ho' continued, "that the day might come j and may God forbid It when an or-ganzied or-ganzied hyphenated vole In American politics might have the balance of voting power to elect our government. If this were true, America might be delivered out of the hands of her I citizenship and her control might be' transferred to a foreign capital " FOR l RISE i.t I K mi i , Introducing the various delegates to Senator Harding. Senator Meejlll Mccormick Mc-cormick of Illinois said: W e are come to bear witness to our faith that the success of the Republican Repub-lican part and your own election In ( November holds fortli the certain promise of the re-cstabllshment of ; free and representative govern nient at home, no less than the reinsertion I abroad of those fundamental American Amer-ican policies under whb-h the Ainer-' lean people base become great and in the pursuit of whirl, U',,v. rn-' I merit hius enjoyed In ever Increasing i measure the respect and regard of the j people of the world." He told the candidate can-didate lhat well nigh all the peoplesl of the old world were represent" , in the delegations before him lNIGH1 B 'l PTTH1 s Senator Harding attended a reunion , of Marlon county Knights of Pythtasl I of which he is n member, at s park j hen thU afternoon and made a brief! speech on "fraternallsm." Senator Hardlhg said he not onlyi believed In fraternity of citizenship. ' but a fraternity of nations but that! In playing Americas role, cautioni should be exercised. He alluded to effort ef-fort to ha vi! America accept a mandate man-date over Armenia and utld While! J I want America to do Its share I do', (Continued on Page Two i J Foreign Born Residents At Harding Porch (Continued From page One.) I ' not want sonic-body else, across the sea, to tell us what to do or how to do It" I He- declared France and England had withdrawn their troops from Ai - ! menin in an effort to force America to accept a mandate, but averted that American would do everything for Ar-menla Ar-menla except involve America, 5,ooo j miles away "and plant the sons of this republic there In the gateway be-tween be-tween the rlent and n, , ldi-nl to in-volve in-volve U3 in every conflict of the old world."' Senator William M Calder, New York, conferred with Senator Harding ot, a number of mutters particularly the work in which he la engaged as' h airman of the senat.? sub-tommi t to Inquire into housing shortaK'' This , committee will m.ik' r commendations I concerning the subject at the coming, session of congress in December. HOUSING SHORTAGE. After leasing Senator Harding. Son-itnr Son-itnr i.. I. r ml re would see th.if ttv w estern housing shortage Is thorough -ly Inquired Into before December J 11-asserted 11-asserted that in his opinion, the most Grood in relieving the houelng sltuaton would be accomplished by a revision of' the excess profit law and modification of the surtaxes, 'eo as to bring back 1 to the building Industry money that IS now belnj? put into tax exempt securities secur-ities He pointed out that there are' about fourteen billion dollars worth of tax exempt securities and that men and women with large Incomes are Investing Invest-ing whenever possible In these securlt- I ets. Calling attention t0 the provision of the new .-hipping law which exempt from the profit tax the earnings nt American vessels, providing these prof-Its prof-Its are Invested in building new ships Senator Calder Insisted that u thl- principle were applied to construction of hous mu h would be accomplished In relieving tho acute housing altuu-tlon. altuu-tlon. - It would go far to encourage now building and do more 'than anything any-thing else t.i solve the whole problem.'' He would have the profits from trie sale of bulldliiKs during the next ten : . ..i - exempt from the profit tax, Provided Pro-vided profits were Invested in new i.uildings. H- said this plan haw v -ulted In twenty new American ships being constructed. Senator Calder claimed New York I for Harulng and Coolldgc by a mini-i mum of I'Gu.tiOO votea O.J India hao more than 130 arlctles of the mango, all cultivated. 1 ' 1 - - |