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C.W. Robinson discusses the investigation of Superintendent Lohr of Davis City and says the report of disloyalty is unfounded. Metcalf responds saying the use of government time is wasted investigating false reports.

Opening: "I have just preached my last German sermon." Notes the generational divide and asks several questions.

Mr. Read is reaching out to Metcalf about the German being taught in schools. As there is no German being taught in Clarence school system there is at the German Lutheran church. Mr. Read wants the program shut down.

A member of the Board of Education of Clarence, Iowa, O. E. Road reached out to Herbert J. Metcalf to make known the progress being made in term of eliminating German. But he made Metcalf aware of a German Church that was teaching school in that…

Concerning elder Lutherans--Germans, Norwegians, and Swedes--who benefit from foreign-language spiritual instruction.

Effects on Danish-language congregation.

Letter writer argues German-language press a key incubator of Pro-Germanism, through language.

Sunday school preacher and language.

Local lawyer notes Germans ubiquity, even following Babel.

Aplington spiritual community asks for concession for one German-language service a week.