Show CI r r-Jl r M Germans S tat in Germ Germany and and Here C oro NEL ROOSEVELT'S warm warns tribute to tho the patriotism pa- pa of German origin ong-m was not t of Americans oL of f needed to awaken in the rest of us an nn appreciation the splendid services these citizens arc nrc rendering erm America Amer Amer- ica t in her present critic critical l hour Wo Yo too have hare been heen following g the casualty lists and we have been no less b the large larg-e percentage of ot i impressed than tan tho the colonel by Teutonic names which these lists contain real American to Colonel Roosevelt will find no quarrel with him on the proposition that Americans of ol 1 German blood bloo should receive exactly the Hie same treatment treat treat- ment as Americans of other blood True to our national of justice co which animates s trl traditions an and to the spirit Iran iuan not by hy his ms every true American we judge I u b 0 c each J aD race but on his own individual merits As a consequence conse conse- quence there has net not been heen noticeable bl in in this country since tho the wars war's outbreak the smallest evidence of race feeling German Americans in business who feared at al first that they might lose patronage e because of race prejudice have found to their relief that their fears were groundless Others who feared social ostracism soon found found that men and women women worth while hilo thought In II IIno no less of them because of their thou German Gennan ancestry short German Americans found that they were subjected subjected sub sub- but hut to a single lest the test the test that no one of whatever whatever what what- ever er blood in this country can cnn escape escape tile the test of loy- loy alty Be ne it said to their everlasting e honor that the overwhelming majority with flying fling colors So model a n. citizen has the tho average fi German American been not only since our declaration o of war but throughout through through- out the republics republic's history that some Americans s not of German blood find it hard to believe belie tho the accounts that have been heen coming omin to us for four foul years of or brutal atrocities atrocities Hies committed by Germans in Belgium and north northern rn f France lange r We e cannot imagine ma our kindly next neat door neighbor neighbor neigh neigh- bor hor of German blood deliberately cutting off a child childs hand or stilling g with ith a bayonet an innocent bab baby's s 's heart Yet the most trustworthy witnesses whose veracity veracity ve yc- wo we cannot question tell us that just this sort ort of thill thing has 3 been going on in the conquered territories ever since the first days ays of the war nr Many of these witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses ar are arc German Americans aut and they they they- do 10 not hesitate to call Belgium's Belgium 5 despoilers lions HUllS Says Otto Olto U. U Kahn Kalm the Now New York banker cr who came to America from Ger Ger- Germany Germany many Wo lYo Vo have hn-c been shamed by hy our very kith and kin Our names which came down own to us from our fathers fathers fathers fa fa- fa- fa have been defiled And he adds The land to which we arc are linked b by fond memories memories mem mem- ories has lIas been made an outcast among the nations convicted of high treason against civilization and of unspeakable lc crimes against humanity We Ye arc are now in dang danger r of judging the Germans of Germany by hy the Americans of America whose origin is German If we fe do o this we shall not exert our great influence in influence in- in fluence in iii behalf of a n just peace The rhe outcast among the nations has hns committed crimes that would shame th the tho wildest savages Let us highly resolve that these crimes shall not go unpunished Sa 1 Hi Since the discovery of the thc kaisers kaiser's s 's larder the German people no doubt feel that they thc lost time when they the seized the Ukraine to bolster holster the thc food supply to PH Now that tho the bottom has fallen out of the talc royalty market what are arc American heiresses going goin to do lo doi te te pa paIt It must have hao been a n. great grent day the chickens when all nIl New Nc York was hunting bear a paa IQ In view vic of our aerial banquet it is time for some wag to say something about high living liying Pa A s 1 pa |