The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 05, 1917, Page 6, Image 6
TO ROUND UP SPIES.
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Virtually Entire Force of Govern- j
nient's Employes Engaged in Work, j
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Washington, March 31.?Virtually I
the entire force of the government's i
civilian employes, approximately j
500,000 men and women, engaged in j
every branch of service, has been '
summoned to aid the bureau of in- j
vestigation and the secret service in
detection of spies and apprehension
of persons engaged in plots, in-1
trigues, or other activities against
the interests of the United States.
In addition, the government has
sought the active cooperation of the
police and detective forces of every
town and city of consequence
throughout the country. Huftdreds
of letters requesting such cooperation
have been mailed broadcast by
the department of justice, and replies
pledging unstinted aid are com
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lag ua-wiv .?
; graph and mail.
Army of Postmasters.
The largest single force the government
has enrolled in its nationwide
spy hunt, with the possible exception
of the municipal police and
detective forces, is the army of postmasters,
all of whom have been instructed
to permit no clue to the
identity of suspected individuals and
their activities to go unreported.
tinder the postmasters are working
city and rural letter carriers, a force
all told of about 300,000 men.
Instructions to the federal employes
call for the prompt reporting
to designated authorities of all information,
no matter how minor it
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appears, which might be or value or
furnish clues in ferreting out agents
of foreign governments.
Keeping Close Watch.
Under this head come letters passing
through the mails, telegrams and
oyerheard scraps of conversation indicating
activity against the government.
Such information will be promptly
forwarded to the proper investigating
body at Washington, the name of the
informant held secret and an inquiry
quietly begun wherever investigation
is warranted. 1
Although no request for cooperation
has been addressed to the general
public, officials will welcome and
hold in strictest confidence, cooperation
on the part of all private citizens
looking to the prevention of acj
tivities harmful to the national interest.
Valuable Information.
A number of private citizens, impelled
by patriotic motives, already
have furnished much valuable information
of this character, it was said,
and have aided materially in the
< work of the two bureaus heretofore
engaged in enforcing the maintenance
of American neutrality.
The idea of enlisting virtually all
government employes in this work
originated with the department of
justice and was promptly approved
by the heads of the various government
departments.
In calling upon its civilian employes
to aid in the work of bureau of
investigation, the government will rely
chiefly upon the field forces of all
its varied activities, men whose daily
work brings them in constant touch
with the public.
Other Agencies.
This includes, in addition to postmasters
and letter carriers, the field
forces of the department of the interior,
federal trade commission, department
of agriculture, interstate
commerce commission, internal revormo
nnn enstnms hnreans of the
treasury department, department of
commerce workers and investigators,
and immigration and other officials of
the department of labor.
The cooperation of trained detectives
and other employes of municipal
police forces will result, officials
believe, in obtaining a vast amount
of information of great value to the
government.
Under the department's programme,
virtually every policeman,
plain clothes man and detective?
other than private detectives?in
the country will be assisting directly
in the work of the government's investigating
bureaus.
Beyond a Doubt.
While rambling around among the
animals with his father one afternnrm
little .Tohnnv came to a minia
ture lake on which two swans were
swimming.
"Papa." said Johnny, pointing a
chubby little finger out over the lake,
"is that the father swan or the mother
swan?"
"Which one do you mean Johnny?"
asked the old man, glancing in
the direction indicated by the boy.
"I mean the one over there," answered
Johnny. "The one with all
the feathers pecked off his head, and
isn't allowed to have the biscuit, or
anything?"
"Yes. my son," promptly rejoined
papa, with just a suspicion of a sigh.
"That's the father swan all right."?
Exchange.
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GEORGIA GOES "BOXE-DRY."
Legislature Passes Strict Prohibition
Measure.
Atlanta, March 2S.?Governor
Harris tonight signed the Georgia
| "bone-dry" bill, making effective at
once a law which will bar liquor from
j the State absolutely except for
; medicinal, mechanical and sacramental
purposes, under rigid restrictions,
j The bill was passed by both houses
j of the legislature in extra session
j here late today.
I As passed the measure was shorn
of a provision making the State comj
missioner of commerce and labor
n.{fVl oH
"prohibition commissiuuci
ditional salary and charged with
State-wide enforcement of the "bonedry"
laws. This provision was advocated
by Governor Harris and prohibition
leaders who shaped the bill.
Today the governor in a message to
the legislature urged the adoption of
this provision on the ground that the
measure might be ineffective without
it.
Stressed Difficulty.
The governor stressed the difficulty
that might be experienced if the enforcement
were left to the various
county authorities and not centralized
in a State head.
The bill was amended to eliminate
the "prohibition commissioner" feature
in the house late today and although
the senate already had passed
the measure as approved by the governor,
it quickly concurred in the
house amendments.
The bill prohibits the possession of
liquor even for personal use and its
transportation into or within the
State except alcohol and wine for
medicinal, mechanical and sacramental
purposes. In these cases application
for and the registration of such
i~^.tafjnno mnQt ha made in the
ill! JJUI IClllUUO
county court of ordinary under penalty
of punishment as for a misdemeanor.
Manufacture of liquor in
the State is made a felony. <
A DEBT OP HEALTH.
We Dig Our Graves Wjth Our
Teeth.
In the March American Magazine
a writer cites the case of Luigi Cornaro,
to . whom he acknowledges his
debt of health.
"Luigi," he says, "was an Italian
nobleman of the middle ages. He
had money enough and leisure
enough so that Satan found plenty
of work for his idle hands during his
first forty years. About his fortieth
birthday he fell sick and the doctors
told him to make his will, he could
not possibly live another year.
"Luigi died at 104, painlessly, 'as
one who passes into a sweet sleep' in
the words of his granddaughter."
"What gave him those extra sixtyfour
years of life? Not doctors?he
had nothing to do with them. Not
medicine. Not exercise. Luigi simply
stopped eating. He made a careful
study of himself to discover just
how little food he could eat and still
feel well. Out of this study he soon
learned the valuable truth that 'most
men dig their graves with their
teeth.' Most men die because they
have so loaded their bodies with excess
food that their organs of elimination
have broken under the strain.
Most men are tired because they are
self-poisoned with too much food.
All this Luigi discovered and wrote in
a book called the 'Temperate Life.'
Aside from the fact that I belong to
a family that grows stronger as it
grows older, I owe to Luigi more
than to any one else the good health
and happiness which I enjoy today at
30."
SALONICA.
Its Tragedy and Last Efforts in Its
Behalf.
:'Constantine made a last desperate
effort to preserve Greek Macedonia
from the heroes of war," writes
T. Lathrop Stoddard, in the March
Century. "He urged upon the allies
a complete evacuation of the Balkans,
pointing out the uselessness of
further resistance now that Serbia
was lost, and offering to protect their
peaceable withdrawal from Teutonic
pursuit. In this effort he came within
an arc of success. England was
quite ready to cut her losses and retire
from the Balkans. But France
resolutely opposed the abandonment
of Salonica, Russia was equally intractable,
and England gave way.
Salonica was retained as the base for
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3. Iuture uuieu Dcni\au tani[juji,n.
An l"p-to-l)ate Diogenes.
An eccentric old gentleman placed
in a field on his estate a board with
the following generous offer painted
thereon: /
"I will give this field to any man
who is contented."
He soon had an applicant.
"Well, my man. are you a contented
fellow?" asked the old gentleman.
"Yes. sir, very."
"Then why do you want my field?"
The applicant did not wait to reply.
?Exchange.
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