The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-22

official notice of such individual indignation"
 At the camp site yesterday, nary a "Bmd-er" appeared, thereby pro- viding disappointment to newspaper reporters and cameramen from The Republican and other newspapers who have devoted columns daily to the settlement. Interest in Kettle town" spread over New England to- day and articles by such reporters as Joseph I. Dineen, of the Boston Globe, in The American Magazine, and by Richard o. Boyer, formerly of the Boston Herald, appearing in The New Yorker, were read by resi- dents who, thereafter, formed writ ten protests and sent them to the newspapers.
 One protest, alleged to have ar- rived by mail from New York, was attached to the article by MT. Dineen the Boston Globe reporter, and is reprinted as follows:
 EVERY CITIZEN AND RESI-
 DENT OF SOUTHBURY,
 ATTENTIONS!
 "The attached article describes an organization which purposes to Overrun our town.
 Please read it and then decide whether or not you want the Swas- tika and gOOSe-step thrust upon you. Whether you want your land values depressed.
 "If you do not want these things which the German Ameri- can Bund carries with it every where. attend the town meeting next Tuesday afternoon and do your civic duty.
 (Signed) The Kettletowners."
 The Rev. Felix A. Manley. pastor of Southbury Federated church, also made reference to the Bund camp in his sermon yesterday on the sub ject, My Cup Runneth Over." MT Manley urged bis parishioners to give thanks for numerous blessings allowed in the United States and flor the blessings which God puts to our credit in the bank each day"
 Thereafter, he is quoted as re- marking:
 "This proposed camp should give us pause in another way. Are we as the citizens of this democ- racy and the faith of our fathers as the fascist and communist na- tionS are drilling their Reich youth, Italian Axanguardisti, and Russian ConsomolS in Metz scheism, materialism, organism and atheisln2 If Fascism and Communism triumph at some fu- ture date 1t will not be because of their superior merit; 1t will be because of our laziness."
 From the other side of the picture came a statement by Carl Nicolay, eastern divisional organizer of the German American Bund, which was sent to the Waterbury Republican and appeared on an inside page, and which MT. Nicolay takes issue with one point of :he controversy, the question of land value depreciation in "Kettletown" because of the Bund camp.
 Part of MT. Nicolay's letter is re- printed as follows:
 "This causes Us to oppose Inter- nationalism, Communism, boycott propaganda, class hatred and clashes, and the like of which we have much too much already in this, our U. s. A. which shouldn't need that sort of thing and mustn't have 1t, lest 1t might perish as a country of real freedom and lib- erty, of a decent political leader ship without corruption and strife, and America for Americans, an America sane and safe for the children which we have brought into this world and for whom we want to create a homeland, even though we are Germantown, or of German descent, of which they can be proud and at the same time unafraid but certain that it will protect their rights and privileges, their happiness, their right to work and economic as well as polite security and influence as full fiedged American citizens, whom no one can boycott because of our German blood and of our love for the land of our fathers.
 "This is our creed and to this men like myself who have fought and striven for decades while liv- ing and working in this country are happy to subscribe no matter what the so-called non-sectarian anti-Nazi league says or writes about. Truth ss always, will pre- vail and America some day will appreciate the fact that we-the German American Bund--are a force of constructive Americanism, at any time ready and prepared to stand by flag and country, Con- stitution and rightful government as our forefathers have done throughout the history of this country. whose protection, recog- nition and understanding we but ask in the spirit of the fair-mind- edf1eSs of real Americans"