Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-10-25

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krl III resolutely to refusing to
L1Sl N listen to German propa-
M r. ganda or vicious knocks
FJ an against our government
Es-1E1T the most powerful arm of
the German war machine
Will be paralyzed. That
Nooks like a big order but 1t is not
Nhen you come to analyze it. The
PITY Is that women win repeat so much
o. the senSeless rumor that is going
me rounds. If the women of this
country will inoculate the peddler of
German propaganda with the "serum
Of silence" they will bring victory very
near, for the big battle of this war is
for public opinion right here on this
side Of the ocean. Turn from the
knoeker and the propagandst in ST.
ieHce, turn as you would from the
snake In The grass or the swapping
cog. But turn In silence for then the
enemy will know Won mean business.
The potato bug is a great success
until YOU separate it from the leaf the
eicct 'ic light bulb is a great success
until you turn off the current: the
prairie fire is a great success until II
hits the back fired strip and has moth
ing TO feed upon. So with German
propaganda, 1t is a great success as
Tong as you listen to it, Why cannot
this supposed wonder of women keep
sHg silent be brought about? Twenty
years ago the Wright Brothers were
considered insane: today can see
from my office the airpIane mail start
for Philadelphia, New York and Bos-
ton and The worlds greatest war
hinges upon the airplane Twenty
years ago Mr.. Marconi was unknown;
today the business of the worlds war
is conducted by wireless.
Some German Propaganda.
German propaganda is constantly
shooting at the war gardeners and all
questions pertaining to food. There
~ the old story about the potato pens
and how you can get three or four
bushels by simply planting as many
potatoes in a three story hoxlike ar
rangement. The leading potato ex-
perts of the world denounce this. 1t
Is but sample of German propaganda
which hopes to cause big wastage In
potatoes. Then there is the other
yarn that the food administration will
seize all the canned stuff of the house.
wife and all her hard work will go for
aaught. This is a lie hut the national
war garden commission used to get
hundred letters week asking about
this. Constant publicity. thanks TO
The magazines and the newspapers.
has nailed this story
There is the one about the soldier
telling his parents he had two legs
cut Off in battle at the front Mrs.
Blank hears It from Mrs. Blank mn
she street. Johnny had got the word
TO them by writing it under s,amp.
In the first place there are no stan.ps
on soldiers letters. The campaign of
ietter-writing to newspapers Is favor
Ute form of German propaganda. but
the editors do not fall" for this and
the patriots" might better save their
stamps and stop cluttering up the
mails
Inc war gardeners of the United
States have certainly shown they
mean business. The war gardens are
che finest offsets to German propo-
ganda ! know Of for the garden makes
no noise. but goes right on about IFS
business. It is this point want 70
bring home-the terrible power of 81
fence II applied 70 German propagqn-
an. This war is battle Of publicity.
The junker has prepared the German
mind for this war for forty years ana
only as long as he can control the Ger
man state Of mind can To continue
ms war. When the German helmet
ana then the German skun is meme
rated with the X-ray of civilization
Kept alive by the white hot flame from