New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Symposium Bares
Disloyalty of Many
.German-Americans
Replies to "Chronicle" So
Seditious Writers May
Be Investigated

The attitude of prominent men OF
German descent toward the war poiicy
of the United States has just been IN
yestigated through symposium ad-
dressed to two hundred doctors, law
yers, educators, scientists and artists
by Portion Maxwell, editor OF ne
Chronicle The result was made pub
lie yesterday.
OF the two hundred German-Amer-
leans addressed about one-third sent
REPLIES affirming their loyalty to the
United States. Eight sent replies
which were so highly seditious,' Mr.
Maxwell said, that they were turned
over TO the Department OF Justice. / ne
remainder made no reply at all. line
ChrSnicle's' letter stated that failure
10 reply would be construed as show
ing indifference or disapproval to the
entrance of the United States into the
war.
Following Are Replies
Following arc some of the replies re-,
ceived. expressing loyalty to the United
States:
Oswald Garrison Willard, editor OF
"The Evening Post'-"While | am
proud Of my German blood and German
grandfather and the fact that my rela-
lives were Reyolutionists against the
sort o. thing that ia now going on IN
Germany had they had their way there
would have been a republic in Germany
in lS4s). there has never been one mo-
ment in my life when have been di-
yided in my allegiance TO the United
States
Otto II. Kahn: 81 do not hesitate 70
state IL az my solemn conviction that
the more unmistakably ana "ho!e-
heartedly Americans of German birth
throw themselves into the struggle
which this country has entered in or
der to rescue Germany, no less than
America and the rest of the wor!d,
from those sinister forces that c IN
President Wilson's language, the enemy
Of all mankind
Newman Erb. railway president: i
have cooperated in every possible way
with the government in its prepared
ness work and have been, and am, IN
accord with the government in It's aims
End in the steps taken for their reallza-
ton
Albert Jaegers, sculptor: 81 took my
cath of allegiance to the United states
in 1889. 1t was done with sacred SIN
cerity and needs no iteration
Escaped Autocracy
Jacques Loeb, professor in the
Rockefeller Institute OF Medical Re-
search: 81 left Germany twenty-siS
years ago to escape the tyranny of ITS
undemocratic government, and | have
no reason TO change my views"
G.. c. l.. Riemer, college professor at
Lewisburg, Penn: "Ninety-nine per
cent OF the men Of German birth have
served. are serving and will continue to
serve, their adopted country
Dr.. Charles F. Bolduan, Of the De
partment Of Health, New York City:
II yield to no one in my allegiance to
this country
Charles f. W. Mielatz. etcher, New
York City: 81 am all American citizen
| stand for American principles"
"The Chronicle" published also the
list o. those who failed TO reply.
Nine. Johanna Gadski's name heads
the list. Others who failed to reply
are Frederick Siegfeld Spiegel, Mayor
of CINCINNATI; Otto Goritz; Felix
Adler. Charles p. Steinmetz, inventor
for the General Electric Company
Schenectady; Rudolph Blankenburgh
ex-Mayor OF Philadelphia; Franz Boaz
anthropologist at Columbia University
and j. J. Freedman, former judge If
the Supreme Court.