New Britain herald., 1915-08-26

and the Americans who are not right thlnglng should be made to serve anyhoW, for democracy has full right to the service of it's citizens
 Such service would be an inn mense benefit to the man industrially. 1t would not only help the Nation, put 1t would help each individual who undergoes the training.
 Switzerland has universal mili- tary service; and it is the most or derly and less homicidal country than our own. Camps like this are schools of civil virtue, as well as of military efficiency. They should be universal and obligatory for all our men. Every man worth his salt will wish to come to them. As for the professional pacificists and the pol troons and college sissies who or ganize peace-at-any- price societies. and the mere money-getters and mere money-spenders, they should be made to understand that they have got to render whatever service the country demands. They must be made to submit to trailing in doing their duty.
 Can Dig Trenches.
 Then if, in the event of war, they
 
 can be made to dig trenches and kitchen sinks, or do whatever else debauch of indulgence in profes- sional pacificis1n has left them fit to do. Both the professional paci- ticist and the professional hyphenat- ed American need to be taught thatit is not for them to decide the con- ditions under which they will fight They will fight whenever the Nation decides to fight, and whenever the Nation deems d war necessary
 Camps like this are the best pos sible antidotes to hyphenated Ameri- canism. The worst thing that could befall this country would be to have the American Nation become tanglc of dangling nationalities, a knot of German-Americans. rish-Americans English-Am aEI French Americans. If divided in such fashion we shall most certainly fall. We can stand as 8 nation only if we are genuinely united.
 The events of the past year have shown us that in any crisis the hy- phenated American is an active force against America, an active force for wrongdoing. The effort to hoist two flags on the same flagpole always means that one flag is hoisted under heath; and the hyphenated American invariably hoists the flag of the Unit ed States underneath. We must all be Americans and nothing else. You in this camp include men of every creed and every national origin-Jew and Gentle, Catholic and Protestant. men of English and Irish, German and French, Slavonic and Latin and Scan dinavian descent. But you are all Am ericans and nothing else. You have only one nationality. You acknowledge but one country. You are loyal to only one flag.
 There exists no finer body of Amer ican citizens in this country than those citizens of German birth or descent who are in good faith Americans and nothing else. We could create an entire national administration, from the president down to the last cabinet of- ficer, every one of whose members would be of German blood and some of them of German birth, but all of them Americans and nothing else, all of them Americans of such a type that the men who feel as I do could heartily and without reserve support them in all our international rela- tions. But the Americans of German blood who are of this type are not hyphenated Americans. They are just plain Americans like the rest of us
 Enemies of Country.
 "The prfesional German-American has shown himself within the last twelve months to be an enemy to this country as we'll as to humanity. The recent exposurers of the way in which these German-Americans have worked together with the emissaries of the German government-often by direct ! orruption-against the integrity of American institutions and against 1