ation the applicant will go to the clerk of court with his two witnesses. and the clerk will file his petition. The fee for petition is $4 pay­able to the clerk of court. The third step is the hearing of the petition by the court. A period of at least ninety days must pass by after the date of filing before the petition may be heard by the court. During that time the petition will be posted by the clerk in a public and conspicuous place in the court house in order to afford notice to the public that the petitioner is applying for citizenship. At the hearing the same of sub­stituted witnesses must appear with the petitioner to testify in his behalf before the court. If the applicant is found qualified in all respects he may be admitted to citizenship by the court. In this event he will take oath of allegiance to the United States in open court and thereafter the clerk of court will issue to him the certificate of nat­uralization, known as "second, or final, paper." While the above briefly outlines our naturalization procedure and the steps an alien must take to become naturalized, he must, before he can become an American citizen, be able to speak the English, language and also to sign his name to his petition. The law requires this be­cause he would not be able otherwise to understand those things he must know in order to take his share of the responsibilities of every citizen of the United States under our form of government. Unless he can speak read, and write the English language he would not know what he was vot­ing for, how to vote, how to seek employment to support himself and his family, or how to perform his duties intelligently if he did secure a position. He would have to seek employment only where people of his own race or language work and he would be in danger at all times on account of accidents which might happen to him because he could not read or speak or understand the English language. So the Congress passed this requirement to help the new citizen get better acquainted with this country, learn more about the wonderful opportunities in this land of the free, and help him to raise his chil­dren so that they may have the same rights and privileges and joys and opportunities that the children of native parents have. The Congress passed another law on May 9, 1918 which authorized the Bureau of Naturalization to promote the organization by the public schools throughout the country of classes for adult foreign born. It allows the Bureau to furnish free textbooks to all candidates for citi­zenship who attend these classes to learn the English language and those things which they should know aout our country and our Government. The Government is interested in it. Few citisens are