The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1918-03-29
LIES ARE
REVEALED HERE
Springdale Soldier Unwittingly Helps
Spread German Propaganda Con-
corning Red Cross Work.

The U. S. Secret Service has dis
covered many varieties Of the genus
German spy, all belonging to the So
ciety of Master Liars The variety
known as propaganda is found in
allsnations and in all places where a
receptive ear is found connected with
a ready mouth that will act as re
peater.
A specimen of the propagandist's
work was uncovered in Springdale a
few days ago when a soldier home on
a furlough from Camp Hancock, Geor-
gia, was circulating around among
friends and acquaintance. He ex-
pressed an opinion about the work of
the Red Cross highly injurious and
stated only three per cent of Red
Cross goods reached the soldiers for
whom intended. The statement was
repeated to Red Cross workers and
the soldier was waited on by the
President and Secretary of the local
Red Cross branch who demanded the
proof of his statements, and that he
verify his allegations under oath be-
fore d Notary Public 1t developed
that he did not know his statement
was true, but he did know that many
soldiers received Red Cross goods in
addition to the regular hospital sup
plies and comforts furnished by the
Red Cross.
Under oath he stated that he had
repeated the statement of a stranger
he met on his way home from camp,
who claimed to be a workman on the
levee, wherever that is, and who prob
ably could now be found nowhere
nor anywhere else as Artemus Ward
used to say. The story bears all the
earmarks of the German propagan-
dist who took advantage of the young
soldiers gullibility to make him the
vehicle for carrying the lie about
Red Cross work A lie that is part
of the stock of German spies of pro-
paganda variety and one that has
been exposed innumerable times since
first Matched in the brain of the
Master Liar.
The method of the propaganda IS
the method of the confidence man who
travels on the railroad is found in
railway waiting rooms, hotel lobbies
or elegantly furnished offices, looking
for Mr.. Gullible from the country or
village to offer him tremendous value
in the form of check, real estate,
safe bet or defective title. He does
not confine his operations to young,
inexperienced men like our soldier
boys but finds members Of the Guilt
BILE family of all ages and in all walks
of life, who accept his smooth lies for
truth. The propaganda knows that
the gripping of the Red Cross work Is
victory for Germany and is giving
special attention to discrediting the
organization as one of the mighty
agencies enlisted to save humanity
from the sword of the Hun.
The story of the Springdale sol
der is identical with one told by
returned soldier in the neighborhood
of Meals Bluff last winter to which
no publicity was given at the time
When Red Cross representative IN
terviewed him he said the Red Cross
work was all right in his camp, and
that he had only repeated what
stranger he met on his way home told
him about other camps. The story
these bows told and similar one have
been published in newspapers from
Maine to California. All bear the
imprint made in Germany" The
trail of the serpent is over them all
It would be well for army authorities
to put young soldiers wise to the IN
sidious German propaganda before
allowing them to leave camp, for
propagandist's story repeated by
man in uniform is a German cannon
caraouflaged by the U. S. uniform
and means death.