The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-06-25

hour. If each letter weighed one and
three-fifth ounces the staff would be
} debating and tipping letters at the
rate of a million an hour, or consid-
erably more than 10000 letters a
minute.
This would be difficult even if the
Committee were spending on the
work the $30,G00,000 year of
} which it has been accused by another
, story, printed in a New York news
paper The two stories are equally
absurd. The Committee in its whole
first year of life spent only one
twentieth of that sum in carrying on
} its many activities in all parts of the
} world.
None of these activities have been
tributary to political purposes. In
it's personnel, the Committee is more
Republican than Democratic. OF the
three associate chairmen who assist
Mr.. Creel in the general manage
ment of the Committee not one is a
Deocrat. OF the q men and women
who are directors of the various di
visions of the Committees work only
are Democrats, whereas II are Re-
publicans, are Independents, and
several of these have been Progress
sive Republicans. 1t would be as
impossible to procure from them
work OF a political bias as it would
be TO use for partisan purposes the
Red Cross, or the Liberty Loan OF
ganization, or the Food Administra-
ton, or any other such war board.
No. 6. A correspondent writes
from Campbellsport, Wis: L hear
here that the japanese will attack us
as soon as the draft men are all out
of the country"
This is a typical German lie.
1t was Bismarck's acknowledged
policy always to keep the pot boil
ing in the East and the present
Kaiser from the day of his accession
has made a hobby of the so-called
yellow peril" even to the point of
circulating a cartoon on the subject
: ---hiots no put out as product OF his
own draughtsnanship. Since the
war broke out German agents have
made every effort to arouse antago-
nism between america ana Japan,
;and at the same time, as was shown
in the Zimmerman note, they have
offered every inducement tc the jap
anese to attack us.
From the day when Commodore
Perry opened Japan to western civil
lization our relations with Japan
have been particularly friendly. By
the treaty of 1859 the United States
undertook to speak for Japan in her
relations with the other powers, and
it was only with the United States
that such treaty was ever conclu-
Ided Japan turned to Gen. Grant for
mediation with China in 1870 and to
President Roosevelt for mediation
with Russia in the Russo-Japanese
war. The recent Lansing-Ishii
agreement settled every possibility
of difference between this country
and Japan, assured the "open door
in China, and expressed the coop
Grafton of Japan and the United
States in the war against Germany.
Our relations with Japan were
never better. The two countries
were never more united in a COM
mon interest The stories Of Japan's
secret antagonism that are being cir
culated in all parts of the country
are pro-German ISLANDERS designed to
divide us from our eastern allies.
No. 7. A correspondent reports
from Sheboygan, Wis, a story to
the effect that 1.-The Liberty loans are
started by the big men who have mo-
. ney, and as soon as the loan is over
subscribed they withdraw their bonds
again" The director of The War
Loan Organization of the Treasury
replies: This is untrue. The large
banking interests have been very pa
triotic in their support of the loan.
In one or two cases, the banks have
guaranteed the quota for city and
then the size of their ultimate sub
scriptions depends upon the total
subscriptions made by the people OF
the town"
All such stories should be reported
IN the Committee on Public Informa-
ton. s Jackson Place, Washington
D. c., in order that authoritative de-
malls may be promptly obtained and
circulated.