Helping a friend with some World War I records for his family near Sheboygan, we came across a newspaper article about Mr. Kohler who was the local chairman for war bonds. He announced a quota for all households in the area and he promised to publish a list of anyone who failed to participate. He later followed up with his promise and published all the names of those who did not subscribe to the war bond drive. I guess being Anti Kaiser was good business.
“...being anti-Kaiser was good business.”
My great-grandfather moved his family, including my young grandfather, to the US because he didn’t want any of his sons drafted into the Kaiser’s army.
Some of his relatives moved to Brazil, so now there are more of us in the New World than left in the old.