The Holbrook news., 1921-03-04

elect last week granted an interview to committee of the "German-Ameri- can Citizens league" headed by the notorious George Sylvester Viereck former editor of the Fatherland. Why cannot this man and his colleagues, who still cling desperately to their hyphen, lie quiet until time and good behavior have somewhat rehabilitated them in the opinion of decent Ameri- cans? Here are the demands. requests and opinions which these .hyphenates had the effrontery to present to the President-elect:
 1. That Americans of German birth should participate equally with their fellow citizens in the government of tour country"
 2. Immediate peace with Germany and the rejection of the infamous" peace of Versailles.
 8. A protest against the French an- nexation of the ancient German provinces of Alsace-Lorraine.
 4 Immediate withdrawal of the American forces from the occupied portions of Germany.
 5 Condemnation of British action in Ireland as "in violation of the prin- ciples for which American blood was shed and American treasure lavished in defense of the British empire dur ing the World war"
 6. Condemnation of the attempt to embroil this country in a war with Japan for the benefit of Great Britain"
 z. Repeal of the Panama canal tolls act, which it has been said would be violation of our treaty with Great Britain.
 8. Opposition to entangIing ,alli ances. especially any alliance with Great Britain"
 g. Investigation of the government handling of alien property is de handed.
 10. Immediate release of Eugene V. Debs. @
 Il. Resentment of attacks against citizens of German descent.
 12. Prohibition condemned as ga breeder of death, corruption and con- tempt for the law"
 13. study of immigration "in a liberal spirit, urged.
 Another man, who during the war made himself only a little less ob- noxious than Viereck-Oswald Garri- son Villard-ran into a hornets nest when he undertook to deliver Lin coin birthday address at the Womans City club, in Cincinnati. A great crowd, made up largely of ex-service men and men and women who lost relatives in the war, tried to break up the meeting and only the inter- vention of the police saved Willard from possible injury and enabled him to go on with his speech.
 Decidedly interesting if not very important is the attempt to impeach United States Judge Kenesaw M. Landis of Chicago. The attack on this spectacular jurist, who is both much loved and much feared. came from two sources and was based on two grounds. but the actual move for his impeachment was made by Repre- sentative Benjamin Welty of Ohio, who asks Ihe senate to remove the judge from the bench because he ac- cepted the office of supreme arbiter of organized baseball. The house committee on judiciary took up the Welty charge, and also received an opinion from Attorney General Pal mer who ruled that Judge Landis had committed no offense in holding the two positions. The other attack on the judge was made by Senator N. B. Dial of South Carolina, who was en- ragged because Landis. in hearing the case of an embedding bank clerk, criticized the bank directors for pay ing only SO month to a young man who was required to handle large sums. The judge accepted Dial's challenge with glee and said some rather cutting things about the sen ator's interests in banks. cotton mills and child labor. As Dial has not been an especially influential member of the senate 1t is not likely his outbreak will have results.