South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-07-03
YoungAmencalDon't
Be too Proud! You re
All Yonks in France


for you. Five hundred
= eighty OF YOU recently regis
tered for military service having
become of age since the registra-
ton Of 1917. The South Bend
Civic Federation wants you. and
all of YOU. To take part i'm AN
Americanization Flag display to-
morrow, July Ith. at Rum Village.
The reason behind this appeal
is lamentable. The AmeriCaniZa-
ton committee sent out $50 inyi-
tations 10 the young men of the
city and county, but the native
born Americans of native born
parents are falling down on their
responses, while the young men
of foreign born parents are re-
spending almost TO the man.
Some American parents have
even gone so far as 10 express a
sort of repugnanCe to having their
sons line up with those foreign
ers." That is un-AmeFican. They
Will line up along with them when
they get in the environments and
in the trenches. We have no room
in America for such "snOb' aris-
tOcracy just now.
These BOYS, all of them. arc 60
ing TO the front. shoulder TO shout
der, TO fight for democracy.
= EFT this. OF the some $500
~ men who have entered the
world war from ST. Joseph coun-
~. 2,S15 are what the above men
toned American parents would
call Foreigners In fact that
many are Polish. say nothing of
the AuStrians, Hungarians. and
arc in the ranks.
Watch the casualty lists and
witness the skis and the ''iczs'
and the ''iaks.' and the ticks"
and you will readily see who is do
ing the dying and getting hurt for
America these days.
These foreigners are getting
AmericaniLed all right. and even
before going to the trenches. they
are not ashamed to proclaim il.
III this AmericaniZation rally has
to be put on alone by the ''for-
eigners," il is pretty near time
that we take TO AmericaniZing
Americans.
What the committee wants is "a
demonstration Of Young Amer
lea" coming of age: every young
man Of ri and not yet -, is asked
To demonstrate his pride i'm his
Flag.
NOU can find out all about il by
calling up Bell phone 1924.
any time today or tonight. Any
how report at the platform Rum
Village. at bugIe call. at 1:f5 i'm
the afternoon. the Fourth. You
are wanted i'm the pageant of the
allied nations. Are YOU uninter-
ested enough TO want the United
States TO be left out?
America should be represented
i'm that display. two TO one OF the
other nationalities. Nothing but
"snob" prejudice can prevent it
and this il no time for "snob"
prejudice.
In Cleveland and Cincinnati tens
OF thousands of Americans and
their adopted brothers stood
shoulder TO shoulder on an occa-
sion like this. Would you object
to standing next TO one Of them
i'm a trench lover there" or drink
from a cup OF water handed you
by one. TO revive YOU, in case Of
wound? Would YOU bc TOO proud
TO tender him n cup if he were
tho wounded?
Get that "snobbery." that idiotic
prejudice out OF your system
We are all Americans. There are
no hyphens any more. VIC arc
either Americans or we arc for
eigners-a condition of the mind
and heart "a well "a OF birth and
naturaliZations.
Young man. axe ri. Remember
you're OF age. III your parents
still say no. YOU might a. well a.
-ert your -clT-reliRnCe first a. at
lost. and here l. in = good cause.
Assert YOUR democracy. Di~obcd-
fence for the right. and for the
uplift OF mankind. l. what has lift
81 the world out or the gutter. and
that j. exactly what this war Is