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Show reatinnal and other societies. Americans abroad do the very aame thing. Welsh. English, Ctreok, Scandinavian and other adopted Americans do the aame thing. Whatever are the tics that bind them together, they do not prevent them from becoming amalgamated with the native population popula-tion participating in community enterprise, joining political parties of their own choosing and contributing their fair share to the building build-ing up of the city, ftate and nation. It ha been a matter of common knowledge for long that nan agent have come here, and they have had a fair success in a handful of our larger cities in organizing nizi propagandist unit. If thev think they have any .secrets, they are self-deluded. A to any "revolution'' they, have in mind, it will never get bevond a disturbance dis-turbance of the peace, to which emcigency lucal police ate equal. Kven if they have 'iU.OOO trained and uniformed revolutionaries scattered in sixtv or more American cities, it mut be remembered that there are 1 30.000 00(1 or more of our people who want no truck with any of the trick governmental govern-mental schemes hatched since the war in the old world by egocentric political opportunists willing to wadu through the blood of their slaughtered countrymen to reach the seats of tyrannical power and terroristic rule. Unbelievable Credulity, or Something THE Chicago Dally Time byline man, William Wil-liam Mueller, and two other reporters assigned as-signed to look under th beds of th country's German-American produced a blood-freezing . ttory. It was about the Amerika-deutcher volks-bund volks-bund and ita fostering some "80 -odd" camps of armed, uniformed and trained nazl terrorists, an army of 20,000 In readiness to aeize control of the United States government when "der tag" cornea the day when the communists' revolution revolu-tion in America start. Then, quick as a flash,, th nazis will overpower them and then unite , with other parties to save the constitution. Won't that be a dsy for the newsreel cameramen! Salt Lake City was singled out as one of the Western cities where the bund had established "an exact replica of the Hitler storm troops." So what? So we can't be bothered. Also we do not believe it What 1 believable Is that these reporters have been the victims of their own unbelievable un-believable credulity or something. Whit w do know is that Salt Lake City's German-American population has from the beginning be-ginning constituted a strong, industrious, loyal and respected element in the community. Elsewhere Else-where in the state the same holds true. Their children have been educated in the public schools, have absorbed the American spirit and cannot be differentiated from other native-born American Amer-ican of foreign parentage, or, for that matter, of native parentage. Our German-American citizens hsve come here for a variety of reasons. Records of the government fail to show that many have returned re-turned to th fatherland, which would seem to Indicate that In America they have found what they sought and are satisfied to live under the flag of their home by adoption. Of Germans coming here since th World war, very large proportion represent those who hsd no stomach for living under the swastika. It is. of course, a very natural thing that memories mem-ories of the land of their birth, old world customs cus-toms and other common interests hsve moved , ahem to organize fraternal, social, cultural, rec- ' ' |