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AMERICAN MM iSSHIlEO 81 His Insidiously and Cunningly Cerium Propaganda is Scattered?Nurses Of t hi* lii??l ( TttMrfltfi fnr Teuton Slander?British Government Lied About And Pacific ('oast Japanese Are Traduced (By Harvey O'Higgins, Associate Chairman Committee on Public Information.) Mr. Citizen, you are now on the fir ing line. Imperial German is not merely at tacking on the western front. She i: attacking in every community in th< United States. Her assault is under the directioi of the German general staff. It hai been prepared as carefully as th< strategy and tactics of a military drive. As in Russia and in Italy, si here also a campaign of Germai propaganda?a gas attack of poison W V.M .IVO WIIM A UIIIVIO UUV1 ItllOC ?has been launched successfully and is now under way. The collapse of Russia was not i victory for German arms. It was t triumph of German propaganda. Am the defeat of the Italian armies wa achieved only after German agents working with rumors, slanders, coun terfeit newspapers forged letters am all the other weapons of Germai treachery, had opened an impregnabl Italian position to the successful as sault of an inferior German force. America is now the strongest ene my that Germany has. A weakeninj of our public morale is as necessar; to German success as the weakeninj of Russia was. And the attempt t weaken has already developed tw main lines of movement. The firs aims to destroy our unity of actio] with our allies by setting us agains the French and the British and th Japanese. The second proposes t destroy our domestic unity by en couraging among us every sort o class dissension, religious difference TMPlfll nrnillHipO nrvlifinn 1 mini rel. The officials of the Red Cross re port that many loyal mothers are rt fusing to let their daughters volur terr as nurses in France because o rumors of immoral conditions therf A detailed story has been circulate to the effect that 200 Red Cros nurses have recently been retume on a transport from abroad and se cretly removed to maternity hospit als here as patients. There is not word of truth in the story. It ha been investigated by a federal gran jury in New York City and found t be false. German sympathizer caught circulating it have been ir terned. The nurses in service in ou hospitals in France have the same (lit cipline and protection that they hav here?and need it as little. The stor has been invented to hammer th work of the Red Cross and to prejc die?? us against our French allies. A similar aim is evident in the rc ports of drunkenness and immoralit amonc our forces at the front. Thes charges, most circumstantially mad were even taken up by the nation:! leaders of our prohibition soeietie and purity leagues, and an appea was sent out to readers of the reli gious press asking them to protes to President Wilson. The number o these protests showed the success o the slander. As a matter of fact, no liquor ra tion is served to our troops eithe here or abroad. No army eanteei sells alcoholic liquors. By Gen. Per shing's order our soldiers in Franc are forbidden "either to buy or to ac eept as gifts from the inhabitants,' any "alcoholi- beverages other thai light wine or beer." As there ii little beer sold in France Gen. Per .shing reports: "Men who drink ar< thus limited to the light native win< used by all French people. Even thi: is discouraged Slinonrr HHP trnnns i? every possible way. I hope to securi the co-operation of the French gov ernment to prevent the sale of al liouors and vines to our troops. Per sonally, I favor prohiibtion in th< army, but it is impracticable and in advisable to issue orders that cannol be enfocer without the co-operatior of the French government." 4 Slandering Our Soldiers The charge ?,f drunkenness amonf our expeditionary forces is a pro Clerman lie designed to alarm th< mothers and fathers of the boys wh< have gone to France. The stories oi immorality consequent upon drunk kenness are equally baselass. When the recruits for the nationa army were first assembled in oui cantonments, the medical examiner sent as many as 400 out of even 1,000 men to the hospitals to bi NOW - Tl hospitals to be treated for venereal diseases. The hospital admission rate I for venereal diseases in those camps i has since been a low as 04.4 per 1,000, and the rate for the men in our expeditionary forces in France has been 1 as 1 ow as 44.2 per 1,000. Thn* is to say, the statistics of the surgeon generals office show that our so'diers in France have been almost 10 time? i as free from the effects of immoral- ! ity as the same sort of men were i when they were first drafted into the j army. Physical training and strict ! B military discipline have improved the health of the troops in this respect as J in all others. These slanders upon the nurses and upon the troops are typical of the - work of the German general staff. It sjha8 been their policy in their cam - paigiia ui i<u circulate in | an enemy country the falsehoods that 1 most appeal to that country's prejus dices. America, in its ignorance of all 2 France outside of the tourist haunts 7 of Paris, is easily imposed upon with 0 stories of French vice. The German 1 propagandist knows that. He is plan ning to take advantage of it for his s own purposes. He is making a drive '? upon the sentiments and emotions of the American women just as he first I1'attacked the susceptibilities of the j a Italian women behind the lines in pre- I d paring the way for the Italian de- | s feat. How well he is succeeding in s. America is shown by a passage in ? - that appeal for a protest to President J d Wilson which was printed in the re- j ii ligious press. e It pointed out: "Throughout this j - country a feeling of bitterness dangerous in the extreme is arising and - gazing with menacing eyes toward ? France. The mothers who have reary ed sons strong and clean, and who i? have given them with glad, aching o hearts?women who have loved o France and glorified in her?are t(1 t muttering that our boys are wanted ? n for the profits of their debauchery P' t and not to take their deaths in n( e strength and cleanliness." Such a) o mothers are the victims of a German a' - falsehood. So is the writer who thus f described them and protested against i, the "debauchery" of their soldier sons. The reports of immoral conditions in tc France and the campaigns of protest e< against those conditions are equally Ji ?- the work of German agents, assisted ir i- by the prejudiced credulity of their c< ,f American victims. ir i. Mr. Citizen, the committee on pub- ? d lie information wishes to warn you ni s against these snares. There will be Sl d more of them. In Italy anonymous ^ !- letters were sent to the soldiers from cl > their homes accusing their wives of ^ ft infidelity. Our military censorship s such tactics among oui; men, but sim- di d ilar impostures will doubtless be at- " ojtempted. Already forged letters pre- 01 'S| tending to be from soldiers in France u i-1 have been found in the lobbies of New ir.York theaters, as if accidentally drop- e' ped there by the recipients. The let- ai e ters are always in the angular hand- s' y writing of persons accustomed to us- ? e ing German script. So far they have *"1 i- contained little but alarming falsehoods about the alleged slaughter of;ai s- American regiments. | y Slandering the British e In order to set us against our Brit- pi e,ish allies, several sorts of "whisper- li: '' ing propaganda" are being used. c< s There is the story, that American sol- bj l'!diers are reeling around the streets w " of London, drunk. It has been dis- m t nnti,!,,! a... 4.U..4. ...L.: 1 - T (/!?/? I livic IO CMC i ncline null WI1UC 1 f we are stinting ourselves to save of '.grain the English are using it to to | make whiskey?although we are sav- w " ing and shipping chiefly wheat, which ?. r is little used in distilling, and the 11 fighters from England show that the " English liquor traffic has been dee creased by the war almost as much - as ours. And there is the report that j millions of British soldiers are held 1 in England while the allies are "do3 ing their fighting for them"?a false hood that is sufficiently discounted by e the fact that the British empire has 5 7,500,000 men in the field and a half 3 million in her fleet; that of the Brit1 ish troops in France 70 per cent are 3 English, 8 per'cent Scotch, 6 per cent - Irish, and 1(5 per cent Canadians, Australians, etc., and that the casualties amonp: these troops have been 75 per ; cent English, 10 per cent Scotch, f> per cent Irish and 8 per cent Cat nadian, Australian, etc. 1 The German mischiefrmakers who first supplied arms for the revolt in Ulster a^ain Home Rule, and subse: quently shipped arms for the revolt of . t.hp Hnmp Riilprs?t.Vwsp cnmp nrn. ; motors of disunity nre now furnishing > the Irish in America with any story, f any argument, any slander that can -1 arouse anti-English prejudice among i us. On the Pacific coast, in the same 1 way, they are rattling the dry bones r of the yellow peril. The average ors gan of publicity the way pro-Germans /: before our declaration of war, no mate ter how pro-German it now pretends le Union ? HI III II M?'IIWI III! 11 ()Wj^ s 5f To be invested ii ased only about To make up I stamp6 during J gether during tl SIGN THE swing South C fSBI I ?gBr 1 Ra t be, almost invariably uses the antiritish and the anti-Japanese ap2als. And just as the Zimmerman )te tried to excite Mexico and Japan arainst us, so the enemy of our unity Iternates denunciations of the yelw peril with appeals for a declaraon of war against Mexico. The German sympathizers who >lls you the story of how a discharg1 Japanese servant boasted that the ipanese would soon "own America," variably couples it with a lying acjunt of how all Washington is sayig that "the next war will be with reat Britain about the Panama Ca31 " On tlio Ttnlion frnnt hofnro t.ViA lccessful German drive, counterjits of Milan newspapers were cirllated, containing accounts of how read riots had been suppressed in orth Italian towns by British soliers imported for that purpose, after alian troops had refused to fire upi their own people. All over Italy le argument was used that the na011 was merely "pulling England's lestnuts out of the fire." The same rgument is now doing duty here, in lite of the fact that the United tates only went to war in self-demse after we had endured every >rm of German outrage and injustice nd exhausted every means of peaced appeal. x Many of the agents of this sort of ropaganda in America, both pubshers and "whisperers," are protect 1 by their American citizenship and y the traditional freedom of speech hich our jaws permit. The movement had no power to reach them, hey are often the innocent victims fruiltier minds. It is only possible > warn the public of the infection hich they spread, and to mark them Hurrv! Hum J d Oui Everything in < ? ? ^ You Buy , Dry Super Special worth $2.00 a Snner 5 ! r No Fake Sale THE! Hardwa lOUTH Cj QUO' >33,0< n War Savings Stai $1,500,000?He [or this poor showing the |une and must pledge to tie year. PLEDGE and buy afl arolina into Kne? It can War Savings Si ?sts $4.17 in Jur leemable Jan. 1,1923 as "carriers of that German propaganda bacillus which completely enervated the strength of Russia and so nearly broke down the Italian power of self-defense. NEW HOPE New Hope, June 5.?We are having fine weather new after such a nice rain which wr.s sure appreciated by everybody as we had had such dry, hot days. Most all farmers are now cutting wheat which we hope there will be 1 Oto of it made. The Children's Day service was held at New Hope Sunday with ft large crowd and a nice dinners on the grounds, which I think everbody enjoyed. Prof. Guess of Jonesville delivered an excellent talk to the chil dren in the morning service which was certainly enjoyed by all. Must say we all iike to hear Mr. Guess any time and hope we can have him again. He also made a beautiful illustration from the poem of Tennyson "The Chambered Nantilus." As it describes life so beautiful. (As it says): "fcluild thee more stately mansions, O, my, soul, As the swift seasons roll; Leave thy low, vaulted past; Let each new temple nobler than the last, Shnt nnp from Heaven with a dome more vast. Till thou at length are free Leaving thine out-grown shell by life's unresting sea." Miss Annie White of Spartanburg was the guest of Miss Martha Sue Fowler Sunday and attended Childrens Day services at New Hope. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Lancaster of Sulphur Springs attended the Chilf! To Our Big ' r Big Drive For More )ur immense store n A.t Less Than Whol <r flvACf* /T a a /T r 3; L/IC3J UUUUJ^ Today and Tomo yard to go at inecial for Saturday r " t No Sham! Got RASOF re Co. UIOLINA' rAIS )0,00 mps this year. So 1 worst showing b tb > state must buy $6^X > save and invest in $3 the War Sasiugs Stoat and most be done. r$54 l dren's Day services at New Ho Sunday. Mrs. Ida Long and Mrs. Hatl Guyton of Gaffney atended servic at New Hope Sunday. The writer will leave for Winthr College to attend the home demo stration course which will last for days. Miss Ethel Gallman and Mi Lillian Foster cf Oakland commu ity will also attend. The missionary society will meet the home Mrs. J. G. Bishop the sc ond Sunday in June. All members a requested to come. Vero. CANDIDATES CARDS The friends of R. S. Harris herel announce him as a candidate f Township Commissioner ' of Sant Township and pledge him to abide tl decision of the Demicratic prima election. I hereby announce myself a cant date for election to the offce of Ma istrate for Union Township, Uni< County, and pledge myself to abii the result of the Democratic primar E. C. HOWZE. SUMMER COLDS A cold is annoying at any seasonbut nothing is quite so disagreeab as a "summer cold." You shou therefore treat a summer co promptly. Lawson's La Grippe Ca sules, K-yV Brand will guard again serious results from a cold. These tablets effect a very prom cure, thus saving you that miserab feeling which you must otherwise e dure. Price 25c. Sold bv PeoDl Drug Store, Phone 69.?Adv. ren Per Gent I Business Is In Full S narked down ten ce 1 T f TT esaie rnces, it 101 Boys Clothing a rrow: 300 yards si. r rkr^Kr. WHTTP1 f V/iliJ . H 111 I U >d Values! Reas l COM C S3WI mill ?MB . Our Paints ! Stand The Test. | ~ ** 1 s m&&\ " I VUDlHKBUii I 'jEErESL^ I xEBSSEP 1 ywpwnit 0 ar we have purch! whole Med States! K),000 wc?4 of 3,000,000 ahops yohi cm. Ws i in fws^i I if -W5S!" " w witio mm jovummptt pe NEWS FROM BONHAM *ie Bonham, June 5.?Well, this is a es delightful day that we are having. The crop prospects are very prom?P ising at this time. The stands seem n" to be good and this is growing weath9 pr T Vi n rn Din tvnrL1 opaann Koa mama w* - ??V MIHtU TTVAn ocaovu UUO V-VII1C 88 and the farmers will be busy for the n~ next two months. Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Davis spent Sunday at Monarch with their chiU !C" dren. V*' aS re Mrs. J. L. Rhinehart and chilurtn of Whitney, S. C., spent several days with her sister, Mrs. J. C. Fincher. There will be preaching at Duck Pond Sunday afternoon. Everybody t>y is invited to come and hear a good seror mon. uc Mr. R. E. Belue has returned home he after working in Spartanburg (for ry some time. Several from this community attended the children's day services at li- New Hope Sunday. fr. Mr. Henry Sprouse. and children 5n spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and de Mrs. Olan Belue. y' MILK POWDER, WATER AND BUTTER INTO MfLK An emulsor, now beinpr widely introduced, produces pasteurized milk ? or cream from their component parts ?le with the aid of centrifugal force. The Id machine, which is shown in the June Id Popular Mechanics Magazine, is built p- somewhat like a cream separator, st Milk powder, butter, and water, which have been mixed and heated in a pt steam-jacketed vat, are fed at pasde teurizing temperature into the revolvn ing chamber, producing a perfect es emulsion from which all foreiern mat ter is eliminated. liscount Sale! wing ints on the dollar, a Buy Now! nd Notions of LINOLEUM 35 at yard GOODS. ioiiume rnccs: PAN Y ' - - X'ri i ?. ,'i ? .'-.i