Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-09-20
ONE YOUNG NORSCA
DIDN'T LIKE BEING
BRANDED Stacker
PAUL CHADWICK, WHO ONCE DE.
MANDED WITHDRAWAL OF CiTi.
zENshlP PAPERS, EXPERIENCES
CHANGE OF HEART - NOW
WANTS TO FIGHT.

Whether 1t was threats or promises
which caused him to change his mind,
it remains none the less true that Paul
s. Chadwick. young Rutland Town
ship farmer has decided that after
all has been said and done he would
rather become an American citizen
and fight for Old Glory rather than 90
back to Norway to suffer the conse-
quences of such an uncertain fate for
the remainder of his natural days.
Chadwick is one Of five District /
registrants who appeared before the
draft board in that celebrated episode
of last week 1t will be remembered
| he and four Of his countrymen de.
manded the withdrawal of their
! declaration papers. At that time the
! Morse flag looked much better TO them
than did the Stars and Stripes, par
! ticularly as it offered them refuge
! against fighting in the trenches OF
] France Their being aliens, there was
! nothing for the draft board TO do but
attend TO the cancellation of the frs
/ cirizenship papers. But Chadwick anC
his nationales were tipped Off tC
/ certain features Of the newly created
alien laws, among which was a sec
tion which forbade them from owninf
property longer than six years. As
the average foreign mind runs tC
chattcls and landed interests, the trio
are thought to be no different iron
their pioneer forbears who blazel n.
trail to large farms and swollen banl
accounts in America the land of free
dom and future. Anyway, Chadwick
has renounced his former renuncia
tion and now wants to become a full
iiedged American.
At the time he and his fellow ma
tives OF Scandinavia made application
to have the first move cancelled il
their citizenship attempt a grea
hollabalOo was created among pa
'riotic Ottawans. Nothing more tha,
rebukes, with an occasional slur G
Stacker headed in The direction of tn
young men In some communities fist
AMI yellow paint have been subst
tuted for the more gentle method
adopted in District ] Anyway. tn
five came out of their ordeal III
scatned. Great contempt has greete
,, them since.
Chadwick yesterday crealed som
surprise when he went before Ii
draft board and announced his desir
to continue on in his ambition to b,
come a citizen, He was given a Gu
tain lecture that should have bee
heard by the other young men. II
said he had thought the matter owe
{ carefully and decided to change h
: mind. lie had no desire to 80 throup
the remainder of his life branded as
/ Stacker.
When he asked that his actions
g a few days before be rescinded Il
. draft chiefs discovered they had NJ
d forwarded his remuneration to Was
e ington. They were able to cancel
y then and there. Had he withdraw
y been sent in there would have be,
& no way for him 70 have ever Decon
T. a citizen Of the United States.
e The papers of the other four m,
d will be held for few days befo
o. sending them in, in hopes that tn
viii come to the realization Of VIII
their rash act will mean to them Al
withdraw their objections. To esca
n military service they are placi
n themselves in a very conspicuous a
unenviable position.
t. The other four who have withdra,
IN their applications for citizenship
a. rers are, Herman G. Oma. Sherida
pi John Friestad, Marseilles. Ole Pet
rs son, Seneca, and Andres p. Ohr
Leland.