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NOME, ALASKA, JUNE 7, 1917.
THE LOYALY OF GERMAN-AM'
ICANS.
Immediately after President Wilson
announced the break in relations with
Germany, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, ex-!
ambassador to Turkey, himself born
in Austria, remarked: “I believe the
German-Amerlcans will be behind the
president to a man. Indeed, they will
lean over backward in their effort
to prove the'ir loyalty to the United
States. The exceptions will he a few
paid agents of the German govern
ment.
At a meeting of representatives of
500 German and Austro-Hungarian
societies held in New York city at
the same time, the presiding officer,
Mr. Ludgwlg Nissen, expressed their
attlude In a smile wtrtch may prove
to bo the key to an understanding of
this whole question of the Grrman
Ameriean attitude: “Just as a man
may love his mother and still owe
first allegiance to his wife, so let us
citizens of German origin sincerely
follow this example by losing Ger
many and being loyal above all to
the United States.”
This conception of the German
American’s position evidently had be
come widespread before the crisis, for
on the same day, when Mr. Emil Von
Schleinitz, of Milwaukee, and Dr. Leo
Stern, president of the German al
liance of Wisconsin, were interviewed
by newspapermen, each declared that
“Germany is my mother hut the Uni
ted States is my bride.”
The newspapers printed In German
were also practically unanimous In
expressing unreserved loyalty. Thus
th St. Louis Westliche Post declared:
“We are Americans and we know our
duty. We must stand behind Presl
dent Wilson. The nation must be
solid.” And th Cincinnati F. oie
Press: “There can he no question that
the president”* policy must and will
have *he suppvt „f all Air-i! ,..i cl’
lzens. Some pe »pp» deeply r.?gie; tv.e
apparent tension between the United
States and Germany ,but every true
Professional Cards
Dr. A. F. Heimlich
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American citizen no matter where he
! was born, knows what he owes his
■ country at this crisis.”
| Perhaps as practical an evidence
i as has been given of the loyal intoa
1 tions of the German-Americans was
the offer of the Hoboken Independent
Seheutzen Corps to teach the 1,500
boys In the Hoboken schools cadet
corps how to shoot—the older organ
ization to pay all the expenses.
The New York Staats-Zeltung,
founded by the late Hermann Bid
der and now edited by his son, though
always one of the most outstanding
champions of Germany in this war,
announced on the front page its un
j qualified assurances of loyalty to the
United States in the event of war.
And the New York Herald challenged
native-born Americans, if war came,
to enlist in equal proportion with the
German-Americans or to carry the
American flag as far into the "ene
my’s” trenches.
The dilemma of the spirit in which
the German-Americans And them
selves at such a crisis, and the fine
resolution of the best of them, is re
flected in tlie words of the German
Omaha Tribune, when it says:
“The break with our old fatherland
is at hand but our duty and our
allegiance belong to America, first,
last, and all the time. This duty we
must perform and will perform above
all considerations .regardless of what
the future may have in store for tis."
—World's Work.
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LEPROSY'S REPORTED CURE.
Before there was history there was
leprosy. Egyptian tombs yield 'in
scriptions allowing that the disease
was at work forty centuries before
Christ. There are records of its
ravages in tlie Nile region in 1500 B.
C. In tlie middle ages the principal
towns of France, England, Germany,
Spain and other European countries
had their leper-houses. Holbrtn
painted in 1516 A. D. his terrible pic
ture of St. Elizabeth giving aid to a
group of lepers.
Suddenly and in a way mysteriously,
leprosy faded out of the greater part
of Europe. Today it is in Spain, Por
tugal, Norway, Ireland, Southern
Russia, some Baltic districts and
part of the Mediterranean region.
Chiefly it is conspicuous through Asia
and Africa. But it has been carried
Into Australia and Hawaii by the
Chinese, and its Hawaiian gains, de
spite the establishment of the isola
tion colony at Molokai, have been pro
nounced. In the United States there
were eleven deaths from leprosy In
1916.
These facts are pertinent to the
claim that Dr. Mercade of the Phil
ippines has discovered a cure for it.
and the news that he has discharged
twenty three patients made well. Ex
perts in America regard these tidings
with hopeful interest, reserving posi
tive opinions until the arrival of
clearer details as to the treatment.
As to chaulmoogra oil, the essence
derived from an Indian plum free and
used by Dr. Mercade, It is not new
in the treatment of leprosy, but has
been regarded rather as a relief than
as a remedy.
Verification of the claim from the
Philippines will set forth a triumph
for human helpfulness in glad con
trast to the examples in destruction
presented in warring Europe. And
to one of earth's newest nations it will
be peculiarly gratifying to find that
one of its proteges has conquered
what Is perhaps earth's oldest disease.
THOSE $10,000 JOBS.
Complacency firmly seated in the
big railroad offices of the country
continues to wonder why It Is, with
so many $10,(100 men nre found to
fill them. Kor a good many years
past an effort has been made to train
college graduates for high positions,
but recent speakers and writers have
agreed that In most cases the experi
mnt has been a failure.
Terhaps one cause of the trouble
may appear in the fact that the man
aging men of th railroads do not now
know their working forces ns inti
mately ns their predecessors did. A
generation ago there were railroad
executives who had thousands of per
sonal acquaintances among employes
from one end of their line to the other.
They came in close contact with all
lhe problems of operation, and men
who by reason of loyalty, ambition or
special fitness deserved recognition
did not long escape their practised
eyes.
Most of the distinguished managers
of railroads now In service got their
first chance In some such way as this,
and If they will hark back to the old
days they will readily admit that they
would not be where thpy now are If
that chance had not been presented
to them. Can there be a doubt that
thre are deserving men at this t'me
j who need nothing but recognition and
- , i lj__n__ _
Brakemen, track-walkers, switch
men and telegraph operators of forty
and fifty years ago are in the seats
of the mighty today not so much be
cause men In those stations at that
period were more aspiring or promis
ing than tijose who have sucye^ded
them, but because somebody found
them out and pu* them In the waf of
advancement.
LOAFING IN COLLEGES.
It is always refreshing when an
.educator tells a home truth about
education. Bean Balliet of the school
of pedagogy In New York University
d'ld it when he said to a conference
at Oakland, Cal., that college life
means four years of loading.
Pursuit of a hazy Idea’ of general
culture commonly leads to idleness
because the end !s indefinite. The
same youth who saunters through an .
arts course, specializing in glee club
and athletics, wll work hard In pro
fessional school later because the end
is definite; and In the process he in
cidentally acquires moro real culture
than before.
If there is a mere practical sugges
ts n than that of Bean Falliet vj
fail to rememb-.r it. It is to turn the
last two years of college into profes
sional trai|njng. Thig would bring
our system nearer that of the German
universities, which get their studen’s
two years younger than our better
professional schools commonly do.
The change would probably mean
jacking up high school courses to i
meet the cut in part, wth great lnci- I
dental gain for boys and girls who
must drop out to go to work.
For a country supposed to be prac
I
nlcal we are Intolerably wasteful of
the golden years of youth. Getting
the 65,000 students of our professional
schools at (heir life-work two years
earlier, and with established habits of
industry not of loafing, would he an
economy of the Arts Importance.
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