Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-10

associate Chairman, Conn
Mr.. Citizen. you are now on the
firing line.
Imperial Germany is not merely at
lacking on the western front. She IL
attacking in every community in the
United States.
Her assault is under the direction
Of the German general staff. It has
been prepared as carefully as the
strategy and tactics Of a military
drive. AS in Russia and in italy, go
here also a campaign Of German pro-
paganda-a gao attack Of poisonous
lies and rumors and false reports
has been launched successfully and ts
now Under way.
The collapse of Russia was not a
victory for German arms. 1t was a
triumph of German propaganda. And
the defeat of the Italian armies was
achieved only after German agents.
terfeit newspapers, fefged letters and
all the other weapons Of German
treachery, had opened AN impregna-
BILE Italian { position to the successful
assault Of an inferior. German force.
America h now the strongest
oremy that Germany has. A weaken
ing of our public morale ID as neces-
sary to German success as the weak
ening OF Russia was. And the at
tempt to weaken US has already de-
veloped two main lines of movement.
The first aims to destroy our unity of
action with our allies by setting US
against the French, the British. and
the Japanese. The second proposes
to destroy our domestic unity by en-
couraging among US every Sort OF
class dissension, religious difference,
racial prejudice and political quarrel.
slandering the French.
The officials of the Red Cross re-
port that many loyal mothers are re-
fusing to let their daughters volun-
teer as nurses in France because OF
rumors Of immoral conditions in the
hospitals there. A detailed story has
been circulated to the effect that 200
Red Cross nurses have recently been
and secretly removed to maternity
hospitals here as patients. There Is
not a, word of truth In the story. It
has been investigated by a Federal
grand jury in New York City and
found to be false. German sympa-
thizers caught circulating 1t have been
informed. The nurses in service in
our hospitals in Trance have b same
discipline and protection that they
Rave here-and need it as little. The
story has been invented to hamper
the work of The Red Cross and to
prejudice us against our French allies.
A similar aim is evident. in the re-
ports Of drunkenness and immortality
among our forces at the front. These
charges, most circumstantially made.
were even taken up by the national
leaders Of our prohibition societies
and purity leagues, and an appeal wa
sent out to the readers of the religi-
GUS press asking them to protest to
these protests showed the success OF
the SANDER.
AS a matter OF fact, nc liquor ra-
mere or abroad. No army %canteen
sells alcoholic liquors. BY Gen.
Pershings orders, our soldiers in
France are forbidden either to buy
or to accept al gifts from the tnhabit-
ants any alcoholic beverages other
than light wine or beer" As there ia
little peel sold in France, Gen. PERISH
ing reports: Men who drink are
thus limited to the hight native wine
is discouraged among our troops IN
every possible way. I hope to secur
the cooperation Of the French gov
ernment to prevent the sale Of all
liquorSand wines to our troops. Per
sonally, I favor prohibition in the
army. but 1t is impracticable and In
advisable to issue orders that can not
be enforced without the cooperation
of the French government"
slandering Our Soldiers.
The charge sof Drunkenness amone
u expeditionary forces - a pro-
German lie designed to alarm tbs
mothers and fathers OF the boys who
have gone TO France. The stories OF
immortality consequent upon drunk.
| enness are equally baselees.
When the recruits for the Naf1onAl
karrny were frst assembled IN IAN.
tonments the medical examiners sent
a. many - 400 out of every 1.0e0Smen
TO the hospitals 7 9 be treated foT We.
mission rate for veneral diseases n
64.4 per 1000, and the rate for the
men ia our expeditionary forces II
/ France has been Asslow q 44.2 pei
1,000.s4 That ID to ey,sth the statistics o.
the surgeon Generals ONCE showgthai
( our soldiers In France have boen nj
most ten times ~ free from the ct.
fects of immortality q the same eor'
Of MAJ were when they wsrs mrs
| drafted into the army. Ph~yGacalEtrAln.
ling and strict military discipl1ne have
limphoyed the health3of the tronDs +
this xS1p4cts . u Ill otherA
Using PppaIas Prejudice.
These slanders upon the nuxseS and
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