The New York herald., 1922-11-25
KLAN OPENS WAR ON
PATERSON GERMANS
Reused by Fourth Attempt to
Force Language Into Pub
lie High Schools.
FIGHTS STEUBEN SOCIETY
Charges Nationwide Campaign
to Tear Down American
Institutions.
FIGHTS sTEUBEN SOCIETY

The Paterson IN. J) chapter Of the
a membership OF 1900. declares in an
open letter issued last night that IT Is
going to make war on foreign propa-
gandists ''who seek to undermine Amer
lean Government and American Institu-
tions." The letter is addressed to the
Board OF School Commissioners and the
citizens OF Paterson, and protests
against the activities OF Johann Won
Kalb unit OF the Steuben Society Of
America, which. It Is charged, has
thrice failed in its efforts to induce the
school board to restore German to the
curriculum of the Paterson High School.
and which is preparing TO make a
fourth move in this direction.
The Won Kalb unit, the letter states.
Is part of nationwide organization
which seeks to tear down American
ideals and American Government and
replace them with German ideals. 1t is
described as the old German-American
Alliance masquer3ding under the cloak
of a patriotic name TO advance the in
terests of Germany and to get control
Of American markets for German man.
ufacturers.
Besides the assaults against Ameri-
can institutions that are imputed to II
the society. according TO the Klan. Is
trying to undermine confidence In Eng
land and France I'm this country. The
committee that has charge of anti
French and anti-English propaganda, II
is said. has its headquarters in East
Fifty-ninth street. New York, while the
headquarters of the society itself are
said to be in East Twenty-sixth street,
this city
The same men who participated In the
Horror on the Rhine meeting at Madi-
son Square Garden last February to
protest against the employment OF
French black troops in the occupied
zone are identified with the Steuben So
ciety. according to the Klan, and they
are described as some Of the most
brazen propagandists that have ever
dared operate in the United States An
other charge made against the organiza-
ton is that 1t fostered opposition "a
certain candidates in the last election
in New Jersey through the circulation OF
states among the voters making false
representations concerning the attitude
of these candidates toward Germany
and Austria.
1t is recalled by the Klan that the
day before election such slate was
circulated In Paterson in which Senator
Frelinghuysen was represented as hav.
Ing opposed legislation to extend helr
to the starving children OF Central Eu-
rope.
I'VE are not to be fooled with" say,
the Klan letter. Let agitators get ou
OF the city while the going is good. I'm
American propaganda Will no longer b,
tolerated in Paterson"
A bolder threat Is made in the fol
lowing paragraph:
I'm the course OF time the Germans
Bolshevists, pacifists. radicals, interna
tionalists. combination paid propa
gandists and agents will meet the sam,
fate in this country at the hands o.
the Ku Klux Klan that they have re-
ceived in Italy under the Fascist In
England under the second hundred
thousand. and as they will receive a
the hands of the nationalistic organiza
ton now being formed in France"