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UNITED STATES*SENATOR
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February 24, 1937
Dear Mr. Editor:
0 Representative Joe Starnes of
Alabama has introduced in the
House and I have introduced in the
Senate five bills pertaining to re
stricted immigration and manda
tory deportation, and registration
of all aliens, etc.
0 We believe that a proper solu
tion of our immigration problem
deserves the serious consideration
of the Congress and every Ameri
can citizen. According to the 1930
census there were 14,204,149 foreign
born in the United States, of whom
6,284,613 were aliens. The foreign
stock population at that time was
40,286,278, a third of our total popu
lation. This was the largest num
ber in the history of the Nation.
0 During the first ten years of
quota law restriction, during which
the world passed through the most
serious economic depression in its
history, 3,687,547 aliens entered the
United States, of whom 2,010,896
were new immigrants. More than
1,000,000 others were denied visas
during the past five years by the
Consular Service of the Depart
ment of State.
£ At least one out ot every eight
persons on relief in this country is
an alien. Our relief agencies make
no distinction between American
citizens and aliens in administering
relief. The Social Security Act
makes no distinction in the appli
cation of its terms between Ameri
can citizens and aliens. Hundreds
of thousands of aliens are holding
jobs in America, drawing hundreds
of millions of dollars in wages,
which are rightfully the heritage
of American citizens. Alien crimi
nals who are roving at large and
preying upon American citizens
should be deported. We are unable
to check upon the number of aliens
at large or the number coming in
to this country for lack of an alien
registration act.
0 In order to provide employment
for American citizens, protect our
wage standards, our living condi
tions, our American institutions,
and to reduce the relief burden, al
leviate social conditions, remove
our alien criminal population, and
provide for an Alien Registration
Act, we have introduced a series of
bills to accomplish these results.
0 These bills if enacted into law
will prohibit the employment of
any alien by any department or a
gency of the U. S. Government;
provide for the mandatory deporta
tion of alien criminals and spies
and aliens on relief; reduce exist
ing immigration quotas by ninety
percent; establish quotas for West
ern Hemisphere countries on a re
ciprocal basis; prohibit the separa
tion of families by denying entry
to any alien who leaves his family
abroad; and provide for the regis
tration of all aliens now in the U
nited States or who shall hereafter
be admitted.
£ While the United States pre
pares for peace many other nations
prepare for war. If we should be
so unfortunate as to be drawn into
the holocaust of another world war
it seems the part of folly to spend
a billion dollars annually on Na
tional Defense for protection of our
Country and its institutions from
an enemy from without and per
mit more than six and a quarter
millions of aliens to remain in this
Country to become potential spies
and enemies to bore from within.
These aliens have neither pledged,
nor do they owe, allegiance to th
United States.
9 vve must enact ana eniorce im
migration laws which will place the
welfare of America and Americans
first. No other Country pets and
mollycoddles its alien population as
we do. Other countries take the
proper and sensible view that in a
country with an established gov
ernment and institutions for the
promotion of the welfare of its cit
izens that these citizens are en
titled to first consideration in ev
ery respect. America is no longer
a wilderness to explore and con
quer, nor a utopia for foreign ex
ploitation. Let us therefore guard,
protect and preserve our own.
• I hope that you and I, together
with those who are in entire agree
ment with us upon this subject,
may so thoroughly cooperate to
gether that we may be able to cre
ate public sentiment to the extent
of bringing the American people to
the full realization of the fact that
America must be saved for A
mericans.
With assurances of my highest
TYPICAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
AFFECTED BY AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
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( MINES T _PO^STS
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lro" Wool
Coppor Hair
Tungsten Hide.
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bfla<^ Turpenlino
A,b*‘l0« Wood Pulp
j Sulphur
Coal ___________________
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| l Alum.nuro I Sugar Cane
-- Corn
^ Rubber (Import) J
C AUTO PARTS ( MILLS AND A
and factories
accessories J__ w
Electrical 0il
&u9. AUTOMOTIVE _ St,
H.lt " INDUSTRY L:TrT,
Batteriet Machine Toolt
Engines 1^— -— -—* Upholllery
Harm | Cotton
Tronimilliotl | | ^ Poper J
^ Choint ^ J | ”
_j_ ( ROAD ^
f SERVICE | BUILDING _
Garage* (through taxes)
Got Station* Slone
Xepoif Shop* Cement
Tire Store* Steel
( Accessory Store* J Tar
“ - Asphalt
It is estimated that (5,000,000 work
ers — one out of every seven em
ployed In the United States—owes
his job directly or indirectly to the
automobile industry. The above
chart shows the activities chiefly
affected, but does not show how
vital a part motor manufacture
plays in many of these fields. For
example, 10% of all cotton raised
In the south, 22% of all steel manu
facture, 28% of nickel, 35% of lead
and even 72% of all plate glass man
ufacture go into automobiles. Rail
road carloadings total 3,500,000 in
hauling raw materials, parts, etc.,
for automobiles, of which since 1930
more than 40% have been manufac
tured by General Motors. Of course
railroads also haul finished cars
Local Girl On
Womans College
Dance Committee
Greensboro, Feb. 25—Students in
Spencer dormitory, oldest and larg
est of the residence halls at the
Woman’s College of the University
of North Carolina, had an informal
dance Saturday evening, February
20, in the “Y” hut in Peabody park.
Students who assisted with ar
rangements for the dance are:
Misses Anne Tillinghast, of Fay
etteville; Mary Jean Bronson, of
Durham; Ruth Kirkman, of Lum
berton; Millicent Miller, of Taylors
ville; Joyce Moore, of Asheville;
Winifred Shell, of Roanoke Rap
ids; Margaret Chaffee, of Morgan
ton; Sue Conner Munaay, of Tay
orsville; and Marguerite Clarke, of
Winston-Salem.
esteem, and hoping sincerely that
we may have your full cooperation,
I beg to remain,
Faithfully yours,
Robert R. Reynolds, U.S.S.
SOUTH POLE CITIZEN DRIVES NORTH TO
FLORIDA—STOPS TRAFFIC
KEEP Kool, Kopper! It’s just Mr. Penguin, touring in his new
kathamobile and admiring the Miami scenery, which looks all
right from here, too. Something tells us that ferocious-looking cop
wants a ride in the new car—it makes all of fifteen miles an hour,
and will run on its ordinary kathanode auto battery without any at
tention at all. It’s all right to stand up for a lady, Mr. Penguin, but
you’d better sit down to drive that bus!
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