Adventure, August 1917 — page 188: what you’re looking at

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186 years only some sixteen even bear names that are or might be Teutonic. Among these sixteen are Liebe, Giesy, Simpich and Kummer, all, God knows, good Americans and doing something for their country in- stead of writing anonymous notes. There is no one of the sixteen whose Americanism seems open to any doubt whatever, unless it is George A. Schreiner, who is a Boer by birth and may not have taken out his citi- Adventure zenship papers here; if not, he owes us no allegiance; if he has, then, knowing him per- sonally, I have no doubt of his entire loyalty. That there are so few German names among our contributors merely happens to be the case. No German name has been, is, or will be barred if its owner is a real American. ARTHUR SULLIVANT HOFFMAN. 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