Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-03-23
Face to Face With Kaisersm
BY JAMES w. GERARD

Francisco aud surrounding country,
los Angeles San Diego and Iasa'
drra ana then Milwaukee, Chicago
and cleveland ln alI this territory
found rrcpt enthusiasm. great pat
UoiIHm and u sincere desire TO learn
.about Gcruory and the Wuf nut
I found s.etSwh herc also the trail
or Gcrmtw's poisonous propaganda.
Tho grctt majority Of our citizens
'of German. American descent have
huo-l sp'cudidly loyal to their conn-
.try boz this crisis Of ils history 'ut
The fact must bc faced that there
uro thprc VINO. fnr some TrA,nuwn
reason suH svmpathtlo with tho
CcrmaES So ger so his war OF aggres'
Fou 49,
More unfortunately there arc poll
tirmuv lu America who seek the
votes or those dlmffcutrd, and Rp.
prua,h treason iu doing so In all
the history uf burdid politics thore
ls nothing moro unuscatiug than the
effort of these cheap politicians thus
tu TftuN their personal ambitions
Tholr shameful identity is known
90 all 4 generation from now rnrir
own dceDoudauts win be- Apply ing
tU the courts Tor a change ~ name.
n. whom the test onUseA n rs found
that the votes ut thcac disLffertcd
.ri,zouB count for something In our
elections. We must ind some means
to .dBonfranchisG them rather than
have our low politicians outbidding
each other within the law In order
to get these votes.
Have We not had examples enough
from Russla ~ what the shiny brihc
ana the Fnaky propaganda can do ?
In Chicago. where one Thompson
is mayor, there II cepSorship OF
moving picture films The chief cen
sor ls Major Funkhouacr when I
was In Los Angeles, at tho end OF
I September. like all strangers there
| I visited moyieland to see tho pic
/ turos made.
| Major Iunkhouscr's Censorship.
| At the house uf my college Chum
/ nr Walter J. BARLOW met the
beautiful and celebrated Mary Pick.
/ ford
| In conversation SHE told me about
! Major Funkhouser, and how he had
refused an exhibition permit for one
iof her films called Tho Littl'
/ American Curious to see the film
rejected by Chicago officiHldom,
asked Miss rickfOrd N she would
have It run OF for my benefit
could see nothing In the film thai
could hurt tho suHceptibllitles of any
except the Germans with whom W.
iRte now engaged In war
Later the Fox Film company In
formed me that It's film called "Th,
, SPY" and which deals with the ad
ventures % an American who IN sup
posed Ia ~ TO Germany, to get 4
list ~ German spies and agents II
America. WAS refused the right o
oNhihltiop In Chicago by this sam,
/ Major Funkhouaer. In this case IN,
Fox company appealed In the courti
land obtained from Judge Alschulel
an injunction preventing any on'
from iterferlng with the exhibition
lof this film The decision OF Judg,
Alschuler was affirmed on appeal
And yet the mass OF the people II
IChicago are splendidly patriotic. "a
tho record OF Chicago for enlist
ment and Red Cross and Libertl
loan shows
Whom ! spoke In tho great Med
nah temple under the HAspices o
the Hamilton club on October 30,
was able to show tp the audienc,
two German textbooks used In tn
IChicaGo public schools stamped will
the royal arms of Prussia. Tn
hooks had been approved by Eli
F1agg Young. superintendent o
schools. In 1914.
These books were furnished M
by my friend, Anthony Csarnecli
of the Chicago Daily News. whom
first met IN Berlin. where no cam
TO do most excellent work for hi
paper. In one OF those books
printed the German patriotic SONG
The Watch on the Rhine (Di
Whcht am Rhelnl. what n how
there would have been n aome publ
school superintendent had Eelecte
for the schools under her jurisdic
ton II textbook OF English litera
turo with the royal arms of Ems
land stamped On the cover an
"Rule britannia prominently dis
another ono about the Empero
CharlcmaEno and the scholar. q
course. making Frederick and Char
lemaRne appear az good, kindly pee
pie and giving the Impression tina
all kings and omperors are benf
| ficial beings, Hut no word Ia thor
In these books, quoting the preser
German emporors statement
which he puts Frederick In the sam
class as tho four other bloody cor
qucrora OF history, Alexander. Juliu
Caesar Theodcrick ana Napoleon
and says that whore they failed
their dreams OF world conquest h
mailed fist viii succeed why wa
not Frederick the Greats statemer
printed in these books, his admi'
sion that he engaged upon tho Seve
Years War In order to bo talke
about7'
These books contained quotation