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Show A RADICAL'GERMAN WHO IS LOYAL. One of tho most radical Germans in this country is George S. Viereck. He is best known as the editor of The Fatherland, now "Viereck's," In the issue of April 19, Just at hand, thiB firebrand suddenly right-about faces, and says: 'War Is no longer a hypothetical consideration, but an actual, tangible concrete fact. The time Is past for Interna dissensions arising out of sentimental sympathies which we entertained en-tertained towards one or the other of the original belligerents. America is at last involved; therefore it is the plain, unmistakable dutv- of her sons De their antecedents what they may to stand solidly, and undivided, behind tho Stars and Stripes. Some araon us will have to don the uniform. Oth er and no less helpful and important duties await those of us upon whom the actual fighting will not devolve It is with one of these latter which this article is to deal in particular. One thing is certain, every cloud even that of war has somewhere a silver lining. Whatever our immediate immedi-ate embarrassment, whatever our ultimate ulti-mate accomplishment; whatever between be-tween these two antipodal extremities of expression of doubt, suffering, privation, fear of loss, or pride of victory, vic-tory, it Is certain that, out of the chaofi. pvoitomont. misnnrlprstanrlin!- common peril and common achievement, achieve-ment, a bigger, better and infinitely greater America will emerge Tho white-hot crucible of war will melt the conglomerate mass of our citizens citi-zens 'to one mold, to one thought, to a unity of purpose and feeling 'and ideal. Upheaval and earthquake, the destruction of property, fires and all such cataclysms inevitably prove that progress and development follow hard in thf"'r wake; the building razed is invariably replaced by a better one. So, out of social upheaval, springs reform. re-form. Through tortuous and devious ways mankind marches ever nearer to perfection." For one as bitter as was Viereck to subscribe to the foregoing gives us hope that the German element in the United States, in the final test of steel, will be found loyal to America. In religious wars, Germans have fought Germans. For tho survival of democratic institutions, which In the years to come are to bless them, why should not the American Germans oppose op-pose the monster of militarism and, if necessary, fight Germans? |