T.A. Potter wrote H.J Metcalf asking what type of response and how much response he had received concerning banning the teaching of German in schools, specifically from the School Board of Mason City. To this Metcalf replied that he had received no…

H.J Metcalf wrote a thank you letter in response to C.H. Studebaker

Request for exemptions, as well as statement of rights as "American citizen."

Governor's office on situation: "these people cannot be good Americans and continue talking the German language."

Situation in Belmond.

Telephones and language in Wright.

Norwegians in Eagle Grove

Support from Masonic Lodge and clipping

Babel's effects on foreign-language press.

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.'