“…"53 The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice explained that reporting immoralitywas a patriotic duty that ultimately protected soldiers and sailors in transit through the harbor. 54 Italians in the United States took the position that since the United States and Italy fought on the same side, they shared the same goals. In 1918, an Italian American organization drafted a telegram, in Italian, quoting approvingly President Wilson's famous call to make the world safe for democracy, and assuring the president of Italian American supp0rt.5~ The idea was to have numerous Italian organizations send the same telegram to the White House on Independence Day 1918.…”