World Press Digest

The New York Daily News, in an editorial criticizing the bill to deport unnaturalized aliens from the United States, says:

The height of the silly season being just about here, today seems as good a time as any to say a few words on the subject of the deport-6,000,000-unnaturalized-aliens bill introduced in Congress by Representative Martin Dies (Dem., Tex.).

Dies’ bill provides for just that —the firing out of this country of some 6,000,000 foreigners who have not taken steps toward naturalization fast enough to suit Dies.

Dies argues that to deport these people would solve our unemployment problem, by ridding us of 12,000,0400 hands which now have or want work on our farms or in our factories. He has just sent up a howl to the effect that Federal Immigration Commissioner D. W. McCormack is wickedly flooding the country with propaganda against the bill.

McCormack and everybody else who is interested in American business recovery should concern themselves with seeing that the bill dies the death.

To deport 6,000,000 aliens would rid us of 12,000,000 working hands, true. But it would also rid us of:

6,000,000 throats and stomachs to help cut and keep down our farm surpluses by eating our food products.

6,000,000 heads to wear American hats.

6,000,000 torsos and 12,000,000 legs to wear American clothes.

12,000,000 feet to wear American shoes, socks and stockings.

12,000,000 ears to listen in on American radios and telephones.

12,000,000 eyes to watch American movies, plays, baseball games, football games and other entertainments,

6,000,000 sit-spots to ride around in American cars, subways, trains, buses and planes.

And that is not a complete list of the pieces of consuming and buying power that Dies wants to deport.

The balance of trade as proposed by Dies would be so heavily against us as to make his bill unworthy of serious consideration from anybody.