Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-16
DATA MR.. COLQU|TT
FAILS TO RECALL
Ex-Governor of Texas Asks
Information as to Testimony
at Brewers Hearing.

Chairman Overman OF the Senate
judiciary subcommittee Investigating
German and brewers propaganda to-
day received letter from former Gov.
Co1quitt Of Texas, asking for details
concerning the testimony Of A. Bruce
Bielaski Of the Department of Justice
regarding an alleged conference be-
tween him and George Sylvester Vie
rick in 1915.
Mr. Colquitt told Senator Overman
ne did not recall the incident, and
asked for the date of the reported in
tervieW.
Quotations From ''Go1den Book
Quotations from the pages of the
Golden Book Of German War Or
pbans," presented to the Senate judi
cisry subcommittee investigating Ger
man propaganda. show the attitude of
many contributors to the German war
orphan fund.
The book contains the names of hun
dreds Of American citizens. most of
them born in Germany, who donated
money to this fund in 1916 and the
spring of 1917. even after diplomatic
relations had been broken off between
ITO my beloved old German father
land, mighty Germany" read one in
scription signed by Leopold thinner
man OF New York, October 10, 1916. in
connection with donation of $1,000.
you may well vaunt that your sons
are victors and that the jealous boast
ings of the enemy will soon be met
by their merited end"
Another inscription said: GAS tok-
en- of the beloved German fatherland
and her great kaiser. Wilhelm II. the
best and noblest prince of all history,
from a number of truly German think
ing evangelical churches of the charge
of Brooklyn-$100." This was signed
by ]. Dietz, 81 Prospect avenue.
Brooklyn.
Viereck's Contribution.
George Sylvester viereck, editor of
viereck's Weekly. and a leader in the
German propaganda movement, wrote:
Good fortune and blessings for the
noble work. May there be no blank
page
tude and love for the good old father
land the German Evangelical Re-
formed Church. the Kaiser Bell
Julius Jaeger, Z. 6Sth street, New
York.
Another page carried this announce
ment: LAS token to our German
hero brothers and as mark of our
highest admiration of them and their
uncomfortable hero kaiser. the Ger
man-American committee in co-oPera :
ton with the German church of Elm
hurst, n. j.. donates $3.50"
Dr.. Kampmann. in a prison camp, at
Fort Douglas, Utah. November II.
1917, accompanied his donation with
this explanation: 1.-The last piece OF
money! hid it in a stocking-shall
be dedicated to the war orphans"
The German Round Table, at
Keuchler's Roost, Reading, Pa. gave
i 900 on Christmas, 1916.
so long as German bells ring from
the Memel to the Rhine" ran an in
scription by H Crkschwerdt, so long
as the German sea breaks upon the
strand. so long. o. German people. re-
,, member what your fathers created in
memorable monument to German
glory"
The book bore an inscription on the
title page to the German empress. to
whom it was to have been sent In
stead, it was seized by army secret
agents, and now rests in the Senate
committees files. The committee de-
cided not to make public most OF the
hundreds of names it contains. but
a score or more were read into the
public record.