It is as amazing as it was appalling to learn that there are 54.000.000 nativeborn American citizens in the United States who cannot prove that they are citizens of the United States. by a birth record. The fact that the Congress of the United States has enacted legislation prohibiting the employment of aliens in defense industries and especially in industries where blueprints and plans are of a secret nature. has made it necessary and indeed the part of prudence on the part of employers to require proof of their birth record or nativity. It also put into the hands of the alienborn naturalized citizen the unusual advantage of proving his naturalization and proving that he was a citizen of the United States. leaving the nativeborn citizen. some 54.000.000 of them. In the predicament that they could not get a birth certificate because the States in which they were born had not preserved. according to law. records of vital statistics. States have set up laws of that character at different periods and they are not uniform.
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