New Britain herald., 1917-08-10

Va.) branch of the German Am merican Alliance and the Germania club of Columbus, Georgia, write that their bodies were dissolved at the declara-
 tion of war against Germany. Rich ard Bannier, president of the former, writes:
 T am personally fully in sympathy
 with your league and I will gladly do
 anything to further same. The as-
 socation was dissolved right after war
 was declared, as a majority of the
 mem bers were all good American citi-
 zens and they did no believe that the
 association should continue, and they are using their energy in connection with other welfare leagues" 1 Herbert c. Sanborn. of Nashville, president of the Tennessee division
 of the German-American Alliance
 writes that his organization passed
 resolutions of loyalty to America after
 the declaration of war and that many
 or the members have stopped their subscriptions to German-Am erican
 publications. He suggests that the Se- 1 cur1ty league ask Dr. ,Hexamer. the national head of the German-Amer1- 1 can Alliance, to call a meeting of the national executive council to take up : its suggestion. A copy of the orig1- nal letter was sent by the league to
 Dr. Hexamer but no reply has been re- i >ceived.
 Henry Weissman. The most important man in the l German-American Alliance to answer the Leagues letter is Henry Weiss ] man, president of the New York state division. He writes that his execu- 1 tive committee and that of other l German American organizations have | already passed resolutions of loyalty | to America and he can see no need of
 reiteration. The leagues position
 on this is well put in the following
 extract from letter written by Smith E. Allison, vice-pres3dent of the Ger ] tain-teed Products Corporation, to the league soon after the original pub lication of this excuse:
 "If I was in charge of trust funds, it would not be a question of those
 interested Investigating on their own
 account, but I would insist that a.
 check be made periodically to vindi-
 cate my understanding that the &C., counts were correct. An honest man
 never objects to a question relative
 to his honesty, and loyal man need
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 loyalty.
 This reminds me of the man who
 wants credit financt ally, and then
 takes offense because you ask him questions about his financial condi- ton. You had better look out for that kind of d man.
 During the Civil war brothers fought on opposite sides in the same
 battles, and they did not hesitate to acknowledge their allegiance to the side they were on.'
 Dr. Charles H. Weinsberg, of St. Louis, president of the Missouri d. vision of the Gernlan-Am erican Ali ance, makes much the same reply as MT. Weissman, declaring that he can not see that the leagues suggestion is "either necessary wise' and that he believes German-Am ericans gen. erally will take it insult on the part of any organization to doubt their loyalty
 Simple acknowledgements of it's letter were received by the Security League from Otto c. Schrader, sec- retary of the Deutscher Verein, this city; Michael F. Girten, president of the German Society of Chicago; and Ludwig Woseczek, president of the | German Literary Society of Cincin- nati.
 New York, Aug. 1O.-The National l Security Leagues appeal to the edi- tors of the country to ask their read | CTS to urge upon the president and i their senators and congressman, by | letter and wire. the speeding up of l the war program has met with an ] enthusiastic response in all parts of l the country, the league announces to- 1 day. The leagues appeal was made | in the form of newspaper advertise ] ments and personal letters sent to the editors of 1,4O0 leading newspapers of the country, which are definitely on | record in favor of preparedness measures and the aggressive prosecu- ton of the war.
 Mrs R. Foster Walton, of Terry town, writes the league that in twen- ty-four hours she obtained the sig natures of 196 of her friends and neighbors to a Hurry Up!" letter to Senators Calder and Wadsworth.
 A typical response to the appeal is the following extract from 8 letter received from Rowland Lowe. prominent machine manufacturer of Grand Rapids. Michigan
 1T know nothing of the existence of the National Security League ex- cept that its name appears at the bottom of an advertisem ent in a New York paper. But it's burning words seem the right stuff to arouse the people As an American who has, been three times to France since the war began I know that German sub- marines are now winning the war. It will cost millions of dollars to arouse us because-as a nation-we don't want to be aroused. We don't think our home is on fre-but even if it is, haven't we a fire departm ent to attend to these things? And isn't MT Inventor at work on a device to l