Editorial Paragraphs.

The impertinence of the U.S. naturalization, courts has never been better illustrated than in the case of Rosika Schwimmer, well-known author and lecturer who wants to become a citizen of the United States. Judge Carpenter, dean of federal district judges, before whom Schwimmer appeared to be granted her final citizenship papers, denied her petition. Having ascertained that Schwimmer was both an "unqualified atheist" and a pacifist, Carpenter's Honor put to her the pretty little fiction: "If you were a nurse, caring for a wounded American soldier, and observed an armed enemy approaching, would you take up a pistol and shoot the enemy?"