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Show HUN-AMERICAN NOW ALL YANKEE' Snubbed on Visit to Old Homeland, He Gets Hard Lesson B) FRANK E. M WV International News Servlct staff i orresp b ur BERLIN. Dec IS Germany is curing cur-ing the hyphenated German-American. A dose of vaterland administered dally for a period of one to four weeks purifies puri-fies th! blood of dual nationality and discharges the patient an American Tho kaiser's Imperialistic ambitions resulted In an elaborate system of propaganda pro-paganda to retain the loyalty of German Ger-man emigrants even to their children's I children. That was before the revolt lion. The Herman leaders of today nr.. too busy seeking an outlot for ihe surplus population which their j country cannot support to waste tln.o or veiiiirnent on the German who emigrate emi-grate i generation ago. mck TO VMTERH A .Milwaukee manufacturer entered I the office of the German Consul General Gen-eral in The Hague, Holland. Priding himself on his perfect knowledge of the Gerthan language, he requested a visum to enter, Germany. "When did you leave Germany"" di Bl i tided ( he consul ''I've never been there." replied the Amei ban. ' Vou'vo never been to Germany and speak German like a native? What's back of this: why arc you attempting lo deceive me.'.'" ' I'm an American." replied the Mll- v aukcean. "You can't bluff me with thai," replied re-plied tho consul sharply. In this case IS too perfect knowledge of the German I language aroused suspicions which delayed de-layed rather than facllltuted securing the visum. "If you're an American I would advise ad-vise yOu to stick to your Americanism In these troubled times," warned the consul when he had proved to his own satisfaction the validity of the United States passport. l MI Kit UNIFORMS That the OMUtses hold no considerable consider-able grudge against the United States Is demonstrated to t'he tourist by the hundreds of Germans be dally sees elnd In cast-off American army uniforms. uni-forms. 1 iiousands of these uniforms were sold to ilie German government the United States army salvage of-fic of-fic i r in t'oblenz. Germany formally outfitted her postal employs In the uniforms and sold the rest to needy citizens The recipients not only did not bother to remove tho buttions. iwhJch bear the I'nlteir States coat of arms; they didn't even rip off tho gold service and wound chevrons. The American coming to Gorman, usually expects trouble, and his cold rev. , v,. lH generally met by a more or less friendly curiosity Tho German-American German-American In many cases crosses the ocean with the vague feeling that ho is going to his reward for the indignities indig-nities he imagines heaped upon him' during tho last three, or four years because of his steadfast loyalty to the land of his fathers He expects to be greeted with open arms for his faithfulness. faith-fulness. He might be were the kaiser and his mates still at the helm. The loss of the war, the revolution.' the Versailles treaty and the wave of Bolshevism hav e, in one way or an-1 other radically affected the lives of I eVerj German, and the German-Amcr- lean arriving with his 1 9 1 4 point of I view, idealized by distance, must bo a born diplomat to avoid bitter ar-! guments He finds that Germany has repudiated the kaiser and practically i (all the Institutions which he so vigorously vig-orously defended in America. |