IS IT?

The House of Representatives has at last broken into print. For some time the reporters have left it wholly alone, perhaps because--like the Japanese playwright who attacked a woman with a club--they wanted to see what would happen. The result has been a bill prepared by the House, providing for the deportation of all aliens convicted of violation of the Narcotic and of the Volstead Acts. Some of the anti-prohibition minority suggested that such a ruling might interfere with the verdict of the juries if they felt deportation too severe a penalty. But inasmuch as violation of the Volstead Act is an attack on the Constitution and so high treason, the House passed the bill.

Whatever may be said or thought about Houses and scraps of paper, one thing is certain: if the bill becomes a law certificates of citizenship will become as precious as manuscript editions. At least it is an additional persuasive reason for becoming an American citizen,--or is it?