The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, June 06, 1918, Image 8
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
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ased only about
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gether during tl
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swing South C
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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
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You Buy ,
Dry
Super Special
worth $2.00 a
Snner 5
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No Fake Sale
THE!
Hardwa
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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
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A.t Less Than Whol
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Today and Tomo
yard to go at
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t No Sham! Got
RASOF
re Co. UIOLINA'
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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.
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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.
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Our Paints !
Stand The Test. |
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whole Med States!
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3,000,000 ahops
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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
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