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Show CREED ADOPTED BY GERMAN CITIZENS CHICAGO, May Loyalty of Ger mans to the United States was declared at a representative gathering of Germans J from all over the country. A "creed" . was submitted by the German-American Newspaper Publishers' association, in j which it was asserted that the Germans ! "might be hyphenated Americans, but i their Americanism is unhyphenated." The ; "creed" presented at the meeting will be acted on at another meeting to be held tomorrow. Some of the things which the tentative , creed advocated were: An adequate preparedness based on patriotism; American ships for foreign commerce; maintenance of the Panama canal free to American ships ; insistence by America on the freedom of the seas. It is the intention to form In Chicago a central body which shall keep in touch with all German-American organizations in the country- with a view to guiding them in matters of national political importance im-portance and on other questions in which they are interested. |