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...President received Charles D. Hilles, onetime (1912-16) Republican National Committee Chairman, was advised to appoint Frederick C. Hicks, onetime (1915-23) Congressman from New York, to the post of Alien Property Custodian. Later, Mr. Hilles said that he himself would not accept a Cabinet post (TIME, Apr. 6). ¶The President addressed the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, of which Morgan Butler, son of Senator Butler of Massachuetts, is President. He defended the tariff: "The towering stature of our industrial tariff as we see it today is ... the complete vindication of this policy." He praised our free export policy...
Free democratic institutions, wrought painfully by the founding fathers, must not be jeopardized through the hasty words of an alien. What matter that any remarks of which Count Karolyi might care to unburden himself would be addressed to audiences already poisoned by open-mindedness? The principle is the thing, and the principle states boldly that America must be protected from foreign radicals. Beneficent councilors of state, acting on information secured through foreign agents, ascertain the exact color of the alien's political views, and if those views are a shade too pink, he shall not pass. Who does not shudder...
...malicious mischiefs, committing their public nuisances? Mark Twain was kindly disposed toward bad little boys; he made good reading of them. Nevertheless, many urchins since have unwittingly assumed the habits of his tatterdemalions without their redeeming graces; the U. S. is full of juveniles?some of native, some of alien, some of unknown parentage?who are quick to become dicers, toss-pots and wastrels if steps are not taken to make them demean themselves with proper decorum. Last week, two movements were set afoot which will doubtless greatly further the moral education of these Huckleberry Finns? Polish, Jewish, Italian, Irish...
...merely amusing aspect of it is the use of some words alien to my normal vocabulary. It just happens that 'papa,' for example, is a word which my family recognizes as one I dislike and forbid them to use; and now, when they read in your book of my using this word for my own father, they laugh quite...
...Women are intensely partiotic, and it is hard because a woman is married to an alien that she has to give up that which is very dear to her. Woman has always been inconvenient, but she is an inconvenient necessity or she would never have been introduced into the Garden of Eden [laughter], and woman will become more inconvenient if the law of the land does not go in the way which thinking women want...