The Nome nugget., 1921-04-16
NEWS 0F AMERICAN
 LEGION
THE INHUMAN UNAMERicAN

INItiHSHSlHp or q IeiioW peC;Luse he
 made the renArl, that he "GiOr,ed jr
 the terpe doing ef the luSiTAN1A. :"
 All nf which brings clearly to mind 1 that th!s IS the sort of Judge We want and the sort of citizen we don't want. Let nS review for q monrnt the ] sailing of the I.usitanii: On May !, 1915. the British passen ger-c carrying
 merchtntrnan LtSJTANIA. in com | Tlind of Captain Turner. sailed from New York bound for Liverpool, With l.2o1 Is'sSrngers and q crew of To2. 1 making :, total of 1852 souls on board. | men. women and children At ap-
 proximatey 2:io on the afternoon of
 May z 1915. weather clear and sea
 smooth. without warning. the vessel
 was torpedoed and went down by the head in about eighteen minutes. with an ultimate tragic loss Of i.l95 nom coinb,ta n's, men, women and chil-
 dren.
 The sinking of the LUSIrANLA on the Irish Coast sent q. thrill of horror
 brought about a series of events which culminated in the entry of the United States nto the war. The commander of the submarine Ina, sunk the L.usi- | tania WIS Lieut., Captain Schwcjger. l The brief story of how be committed
 the act, as he set it down in his off, clLl .og. follows. 1t is n leaf torn from thr running record of siuiinrs and general life in the submarine. "Rjght ahead" he aiys. appears four tunnels and two masts of q
 steamer with ro,Ise vs1ticai 10 us. Snip is mad" out to be LARGE PASS ENGIIt SHEA MI t.k. The steamer turns starln,rd directs hrr course to-
 w:lrd Queenstown. and makes possible an appr-H,Gh for a shot, Ran al high speed until D. m. in order Ia i7Lin position directly ahead.
 "riean bow shot front 700 meters
 
 mated speed twenty-five se.L nil.'s.
 Shot hits s.arlsoard side right behind the bridge. An unusually heavy de tonation follows with :t heavy strong explosion cloud. lire breaks out and smoke envelops the high bridge. snip stops Immediately and allicky heels 1. ,,f |, l;,,t.. dspper at The bow She has the ap- pearahrs of being about 10 caps1. Great confusion on board. boats being lowered to water They lnnst have iost their heads. Many boats crowded come down bow Or stern first and inn m,iiatcly fill and sink. The ship blows of: in front appears the name 1ESITANIA' in gold letters. It seems as if the vcssel will be an%lt only . short time. Submerged to .i meters and go to sea. COULD NOT HAVE FIRED A SECOND SHOT INTO THIS MASS OF HUMANITY ATTEMPT ING TO SAVE THEMSELVES What sort of a citizen is it that will glory" in such work as this. or that would like to shake the hand of the
 commander of the submarine that sunk the Lusitania ?' Is he the kind of man we want as a citizen of the United States What are his inter csts? These questions rise naturally to mind.
 In the first place he is d man of
 brutal instincts, else how can he
 glory" in the killing if innocent wo- men and children? We picture him as the sort of man who will go out of
 who will feed poisoned candy to Il
 child; or take joy at the suffering of
 women. He is a hundredfold worse
 than a Stacker" stacker is q cow ard. but the man who expresses a de-
 sire to shake hands with a child mur-
 dered is both malicious and danger
 ous. He's not safe to have in q com
 munity.
 Our hats are off to this 100Tt Amer
 jean judge. He is our idea of the real
 thing. By daring to do what he knew to be right he has made a name for himself from one end of the country
 to the other. If he never does another | noteworthy thing in his fife he will always be remembered as the judgs
 who established this precedent Of re- moving the jacket of American citizen ship from a man It did not it: of mak- ing known as an alien the man who is an alien at. heart.
 r.. We salute you. Judge Neterer: may Eso,W action servesas an example <hru-' out the country; may other judges
 pronounce similar sentences for sImi- lar remarks and may real citizens Of