This letter is in response to an inquiry to a job position at a ship building plant also explains how this service will not exempt him from military service
Hint of the coercion and violence: "it would seem to me that as a matter of self protection these men would desist from preaching and teaching German at once.'
Metcalf responds, urging Davis to persist and press name changes, as "it has become quite the fashion to change German names to American names at this time."
