wrong and am going to make everything right." He dismissed his case in court, apologized to the widow, and from all recent observation, is trying to be a truly American citizen.
Another operative reports:
During the spring of 1918 there were rumors in the city
of Dayton that Mr. B, a hardware merchant, American
born but of German parentage, was very pro-German in his
talk and attitude, and as I had known the man for some
years, I made it a point to get his viewpoint as to the war
and his opinion regarding the United States entering the war.
Mr. B was very guarded in everything he said, but
would always intimate just enough to arouse the anger of a
good American citizen, and while he would not make any
statements that could be considered as absolutely unpatriotic
or dangerous, yet it was evident that at heart he was pro-German
and was quietly spreading propaganda in favor of
Germany. I talked to him until I found that I was getting a
little too warm around the collar and would have to move on.
One morning I was quite interested when B advised
me that he was going to enter a certain Officers' Training
Camp and would leave on a certain fixed date, two weeks later.
I pumped him as well as I could to get all the facts, which
within an hour's time I communicated to headquarters. The
information was communicated to headquarters of the Officers'
Training Camp and B was advised by the proper officer
that he need not report. What reason they gave him I did
not know!
I called on B about a week later and expressed to him my surprise that he was still here and asked why he had not gone to camp. He replied that he was too busy to get away and would wait until a later period. This excuse, of course, was all right with me, but he did not know that some one had been on his trail and kept him from becoming well acquainted with the inside workings of training camp activities, and removed the possibility of his slipping across his German propaganda.
Dayton sends in another story, worth pondering and remembering
by every American. This book is written for
Americans. The story will show what other races we sometimes
harbor. The man's name is given.
Captains No. 145 and No. 245 were given an assignment
