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Show MANY ALIENS ARE AOAINSTGERMANY ! Volunteer in American Army to Avoid Coming Under Rule of Kaiser. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, May 13 (Correspondence of The Associated Press). The attitude atti-tude of thousands of aliens in the United States who avc taken out their first naturalization papers so as to volunteer in the American army probably is defined In a letter written writ-ten by an enlisted man in the American Ameri-can Air riervice to his relative in a Swiss city whero this new American was born. "Was it not my duty to aid in this crisis''" he asked. "There can be only one answer for me. The world would not be worth Ha lng in If the Germans should be conquerors." Friends in Switzerland of this volunteer vol-unteer had endeavored to Induce him to leave the American army and had enlisted th.' influence of the Swiss diplomatic service to obtain his discharge. dis-charge. Learning of this, the volunteer volun-teer wrote to a Swiss diplomat, saying: say-ing: "Since I have been In the service, I have become firmly convinced that I have done the bent thing I could and of your offer" (to obtain a discharge), expressing to his Swiss friend his convictions concerning his resolution to fight for America the volunteer wrote: U. S. Fighting for Good Cause "I feel that the United States is figh'ing for a good cause in opposinc the unscrupulous methods of warfan of the Germans. Up to a short time ago I felt, while syrnpat hizine wit I, the Americans: it was not my war or my business to take an active part "Ever since my arrival in this country coun-try (America) I have been well treated. treat-ed. I have bad the benefit of all the chances offered me and was consid ered as the equal of everybody. ,1 it therefore, not my duty to lend ni aid in this crisis. If it was. my intention inten-tion to remain permanently In this country; having thought that I was fighting for a good cause. There must be something to be said on each side, but one comes to this question: Whom would you like to have win? There can be only one answer for me. And, to Judge by ih manner In which the Germans havn conducted the war up to the present time, one can sa and believe that the world Is not worth living In if they should he ihe ' nniiucrors "In the opinion of the people of thi . country and in my opinion, Germany is governed by a clan possessed of an unconceivable desire to conquer, nr to nut it better, to govern the world, and, in order to attain this object its people will stop at nothing The violate the neutrality of countries like Belgium, they massacre the noncom-batants, noncom-batants, they conduct the most barbarous bar-barous submarine warfare, sink unarmed un-armed merchant vessels and neutral vessels, fight behind the lines of their armies through espionage, lying and intrigue. "This !s no way to fieht and we will show them what 'Kulrur' means when civen th true meaning oj 1 word." WELL-KNOWN SALT LAKER DIES AT HOME SALT LAKE, June 9. Robert S. Condie, one of Salt lake's best known residenLs. died at his home. 522 South Second West street, yesterday. He was a native of Salt Lake, born September Sep-tember 30, 1851. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Sixth ward chapel. Friends can call at the r. sm n .- from 12 o'clock to 1:30 o'clock. Interment will be in City cemetery. Mr. Condie la survived by his widow, three sons, Robert, Ernest and Leo, three daughters, Mrs Lillie M. Jones, Mrs. Nellie M. Becke and Mrs. V. r.t P. Hanks, all of Salt Lake; also three brothers and four sisters, Gibson Con die of Springville, Utah; Petri and Thomas Condie of Salt Lake, Mrs Mary Wat-son and Ellen Burt of Salt Lake, Miss Jane Murdock of Heber City and Mrs. Lizzie Cowan ol Nephl, Utah, 00 |