New Britain herald., 1919-12-04

Service agents seized and which were written between NoNem Der, 1914. and March 1917. show that the main thing. running in the doctors head
 is his relations with girls and his DO lltical relations with the German em- ba ssN His musical life was hardly ever mentioned except in tn" most casual reference.
 The following letter indicates an ac- tual effort on his part to obtain de tails of a visit Of thiS American girl to an American battleShip
 san Era anciSco, May 20, 1915.
 "tave you become, through your visit to a United States battleship, so thoroughly patriotic that Nou will no longer use the German language which is now so ha ted in Amer
 Why don't you tell me ittle more of your visit to the ship. Don you think that every little de tail interests me of what happens to Aou' l want to know everything; who invited YOU; who accom- panied you to his ship.
 "kARI"
 So complete and so convincing is tho eVid ence against pr. Karl Muck that it. stands out as one of the great trinmphs of investigating skill during the troubled days of the war. Our heads Of the battlefield have been re warded. but the men who fought the fl ght against the sinister forces at home are unknown to their fellow citizens.
 1t should be said in justice 10 men who deserve all praise that the Muck case was uncovered by George F.. kel- ( xIo
 England of the Department of Jus tice, and Captain Norman l.. Clifford, A assistant superintendent Both men have brillia nj records and are not to be confused with the ordinary gum shoe detective"
 MT. kelleher is an A. R. Of Brown university, graduating in l90t. FIc is also a graduate of the law school of Georgetown university, taking his h.. Er there. Mr keIleher is also a spc- rial United Sta tes district attorney and stands very high in the estimation of lie Depa rlment Of Justice.
 X Capta int 6 it1ord is a. Harvard grad nate of the class of 1905. He is Itlattsbursh man and gained his com mission 'as captaint later Joining thc Department of ;JuStict forces, for whi6n task he was particularly well fitted. Captain Clifford speaks Ger man, French and Italian fuently.
 The records of the Department of Justice show that in priNato mom olan da Of Dr. Karl Muck were fouad names of women with their telephone mum berS. Many of these were stu dents ia the musical schools and there are a number of German names among them. The agents of the De of JIio hcI of menorandums in the doctors pockets which were in code, and the telephone index in his house con tAined alost exclusively names of Germans.
 It was clear that his house was the center Of German activities in Bost on, and q large mum ber of let 1ers belonging to his wife referred 10 German causes, largely propagan- da and ostensibly relief work. Just previous 10 bis arrest girl evident lv began 10 be fearful of the doe tors activities for Germany, and she urged him 10 give them up. She feared tha t he would be discovered and punished. The following letter. which shows how thoroughly Ger ma nized'' he was, was in answer to the young Womans request that he cease his activities:
 Undertook Work for Country.
 In the first place; q German who cannot now be in Germany during this terrible war is above all a poor devil Every single person there. every man, woman and child, sacrifices himself. We Germans here can only look on from a distance. That alone has been making me more and more nis- era blc for tho last two years. When, then. undertook work here 10 the hest ~r my ability for my country. hat is only my duty and share. | would have to die Of shame 1T ] did not do it. Whether I will later earn thanks God knows; l have not even thought Of thai. I am doing it not for the sake Of thanks. It is possible that this war has shortened my life as it has taken hundreds of thousands of other lives; but that is only mat ter of course.
 with us in Germany the idea is first the nation with relation to the state. and then the individual. Here in America the idea is: First the ego, then the individual, and then. if there is time and space, perhaps the whole na ton.
 W Nel III dhN haINc a'ot''V' N'i'~NP ton of the duties Of a citizen Of the 1 state. 'rHiS conception is as old as German history. Even Tacitus has 1 already spoken of it with great rev erence in Germania, and according to lnV opinion the German conception is | far. more democratic than the Am erican II .indiVidua lism, which in the ! asst analysis is nothing more when il is carried out to it's full conclusion than officially approved eeoism in it's crudest form. You must not be angry with me for this hist torical, ethical exposition. but | had 10 give il to you because ,