The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-01
by Harvey OHiggins, associate
chairman, Committee on Public
Iniormation)

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hands Of the French, they rcvcngcd
themselves by bombarding the
Rheims Cathedral. Now that the
Americans are defeating them, they
seem to be relieving their feelings
against us by bombarding America
with German lies. These have come
so thick and fast that the Commit
tee on Public lnformation's collcc-
ton Of them begins to look like an
abandoned German ammunition
dump in the st. Mihicl Sector.
Altoona, Pa, has sent in the fol
lowing "duS':
GD That the y. NJ. c. \. or
commissary departments charge the
| American soldiers abroad thirty
live cents for cake OF soap This
is untrue. The War Department
replies: ut is sold 10 The soldiers
at cost, which is less than Amcri-
cans at home pay for it retail.
| !2) "That the guard house al
Camp Lee is surrounded by high
" charged wire that kills the SOL
dicrs il they touch it, The War
Department replies This is "A
myth
C3D That General Pcrshing is 4
Catholic and will favor Catholics to
the exclusion Of Protcstants.' This
is also a myth General Pershing is
Protestant.
Anti-Catholic and anti-Protestant
lies, designed to stir up religious
strife and impair the national unity,
are circulating in all parts OF the
country in all sorts of forms.
a correspondent in Barton, Ohio,
finds the following in that commun-
ity: The Sisters OF Saint Francis
of the Poor, have a hospital in IIo-
boken, y. j. They were requested
by the government, one night, to
take care OF 1000 wounded or sick
soldiers. The sisters said that they
could only take LOO Then they
were told abruptly: III YOU cannot
accommodate 1000 in this hospito'
why we can, And Immediately, it
now being midnight, they were put
out; their hospital was taken and
Red Cross nurses were installed
The sisters took refuge in other hos
pitals which they have in different
parts of the country
The War Department, after an in
ycstigatiou, reports: This story
is false The surgeon generals de
partment took over the hospital of
the Sisters of st. Francis in Ho-
boken. after havinb made an entirely
satisfactory arrangement that in
cluded an acceptable rental There
was no cjectment, sudden or othc2
wise, and no incidents whatever OF
the kind reported
Alden, Iowa. has been hearing
that the MaSonS were denied space
for building at Camp Dodge but
space WAS granted to the Knights
OF Columbus and they hold sacred
meetings in their buildings for the
purpose Sof initiation, and the same
is true Of other environments The
story is false. The Knights OF Co
lumbus buildings are erected on the
understanding that they are open
at all times to all soldiers, and it is
specifically provided that no initia-
tions or other rites are to be held
by them or by others i'll the camps
The editor OF the Beacon, WI
chita, Kansas, has been imposed
upon with report that young
man from Sac City was getting $40
per day at the Hog Island ShipyardS
for fighting the workers share OF
profits
The L. s. Shipping Board has in
vestigated. 1t finds that among the
Workmcn to whom the story could
apply the highest salary is not $40
day but $40 a week. This is the
salary paid to the division ahead
timckeeper Other time keepers get
from $3.50 to $3.50 a week. The
man in charge OF piece work count
ers receives seventy cents an hour
or $1,000 4 week. The piece work
counters themselves receive less.
The president OF the shipbuilding
corporation that operates the ship
yard at Hog Island points out: 1T
is the records of these two classes OF
men-timekeepers and piece work
counters-on which we rely to de
termine the amount of money due
each worker each week" He adds
Undoubtedly such statements as
this" about the young man from Sac
City receiving $40 day, affect the
Liberty loan" He might have added
also that undoubtedly the state
ments were invented and circulated
for that purpose.
Napoleon, Ohio, has been wor-
ried by pro-German rumor-mongers.
The day after the departure OF IS
OF Napoleon's boys from camp,
rumor was circulated that their train
had been wrecked and that four
teen Of them were killed.. There had
been no wreck. Two weeks ago.
another report alleged that three
OF the most prominent young men
OF the contingent had been killed in
France. That has also proved to be
a lie.
In West Chester, Pa, similar ru-
mors have been frequent, Some OF
the stories were finally traced to a
woman who could not say from
whom She had "heard them" She