Show LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Those P persons verson SOM professing to be Americans tino who ho con tend send nd InU American ecU letters letter to the editor of or The Telegram may as IS well understand right sow now that the Uia W waste Ste Iste paper b baket k t Is lo yawning I for tuch ruch literature TI The Tb Telegram desires to be absolutely y Independent but It i to 11 wholly y end and unqualifiedly American and Ind It will not knowingly publish one ace line that In lii any anT way affect t the he good name name honor or Integrity of the tha United States or the loyal men who or are a at It the tb helm of the tOTem govern government government- moot ment Letters to the editor must be ie they cannot be used and will be thrown I IA IA IA I A CITIZEN BORN IN GERMANY TALKS REFRESHINGLY AMERICAN Editor Telegram There lives in Rock Island Ill an American who was born in Germany but bit having been naturalized considers himself a loyal citizen of 01 the United States S His name Is M. M Stephany and he be formerly lived in Berlin In a letter to the Chicago Tribune he gives gives- the gives the following as his Berlin address Formerly Formerly Formerly For merly Berlin C C. C Breite str 8 Redaction tion der del 1 Chicago being a part of ot Germany many so so called G Germar rm n nAm Am ri ans It C wr write te more or less treasonable letters to the papers in that city M. M I Stephany saw raw one In the Tribune by a certain G. G F. F Hummel who sneered at America Ameri Amen ca ca said the German citizens of 01 America Ameri Amen ca are a a. part of the German pe people le leand S and arid eulo eulogized the German crown I prince Whereupon Mr Stephany penned the following letter to the Tribune The letter of G. G F. F cannot pass unchallenged We who were born In Germany and are now citizens of 01 the United States are not as he says still sun part o of 01 them the German Germans peoples And thank God for that Neither etther are aree ate are we e German-Americans German for there aint no such animal Either he is an AmerIcan Amerlean Amer- Amer lean Ican or on a a- German Take your choice The The term German American Is' Is I today so 80 closely related to treason that it is S syrell to fight shy of all those who designate des des- ignate themselves by that tha t hated S appellation I It S. S He speaks of the Germans German's admiration admira admira- I tion for the the- crown prince Again there aint no such thing 1 I I can tell him bim from recent and personal r lion that the people in Germany hate t this bl fellow with t the e same Intensity r 1 with which the they d deify the emperor t 3 He I is beyond question the tho best best- hated I than man in all German Germany 5 j Concerning the S. S Germany press he her v r r r Is is also wrong At the outbreak o of the d T r war I subscribed to a German paper V Die Dle he Post Post a assuming that j 2 t thus us I r wo would ld get some real war news news r L i Alas Aias I had to stop the damnable treaon trea- trea f son on fl sheet within les less than six months months' I Ir f No such paper can come Into my house where I am raising my Ameri American an I children whom I I want to teach love for i United St States tes and execration forS for S 1 the d. d of barbarians in which their eJ Js ashamed to confess that h he her r p saw the light of day daj V I The e hi no room here for a a. German in per Hummels Hummel's apology for lor it not Is based on sound reason nor is It Iti i with facts when he speaks t their truthfulness There is about much truth to be bt found round I In a Gerian Ger- Ger ian newspaper no matter where pubas pub- pub Cd as asin in a a. German diplomat or S fl n. n gov government official German Germans Germano o s ii G berman churches German s jer-s ers belong in Germany not noth h fete t a lY no has haR any doubt as to the in n n only on one side of the paper otherwise In n the waste paper basket real character of the German people let him go to Berlin and study the Berliner A Berliner schutz- schutz mann is the expose of a real German minus his thin veneer of Let us hope that before long our government will stop dilly dilly dillydallying dallying with these so called German-Americans German and put them Into concentration camps until the end of the war which end would be materially hastened by such action especially if coupled with the entire suppression of the German- German American press M. M STEPHANY Formerly Berlin BerUn C C. C Breite Brelle str 8 Redaction Redaction Redaction Re Re- den del OUR MANY TONGUED ARMY Editor Telegram I If Ip has been said the most polyglot army th the world has ever seen is under under un un- un- un der General In the Balkans There are Frenchmen Britons Hin HIn- doos Italians Russians Serbs Albanians Albanians Alba Alba- Albanians and Greeks There are men of different colors There Is a babel of or tongues But this Sarrail army will be a as nothing comp the army of Uncle Sam Here all the races of the world will me meet t on an art equality to don I I the American uniform and fight under I the Am flag It i is an an army of sturdy young men Americans all whether native born or naturalized Just as a s sample mple here are name names culled at t random from a list of tho those e found phys physically cally qualified and who wi-to I ma made t no exemption claims it In district No New I York City Giuseppe V. V Edward Delehanty Delehant Ernest Carreras Cameras i Emil Lunsmann f Richard Tonjes I George j 1 i It Alvarez i Aaron Fineburg I Warner Varner Tabb Tabli Felix Ser Servais t Phillp Malek Philip Malek Tung rung Yue Chen Tame lamer ef 0 S Halim Azar Others might be e lidded but out here inthis in this s brief briel choice are Americans Americans' of Italian Irish German Swedish Greek French Spanish Russian Hussian Je Jewish E Hungarian Croatian Syrian an and even Chinese o origin The melting pot has lias caught them fand and fused them made boys of ot Uncle Sam Out ut of 01 them The proof best est proof of this is Is that they did not seek to evade service It be he a good thingS thing to study this list when we get p pessimistic What Is going on n in New York Is also happening happening happening hap hap- pening in B Boston ston In Chicago in Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land wherever wherever there there ar great numbers numbers numbers num num- bers of foreigners who have become I Cleve-I naturalized and who are fully Cully awake t to what America means to them their families and to future generations I America Americ has been found worth fighting fighting fight fight- ing lag for and worth dying for tor if need be A. 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