The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12
Keep Your Mouth Shat

INV Raker Importing Company, used to be,
issued u Help that firm sell coffee Just now Il
is being published to help, America win the war
What It's leading articles lack in culture they make
up for in punch and while II intcrlards its ideas
with few "cnss". words 1t must be admitted that
these help out the forcegof the vigorous ideas set
forth. In its current pumber, "Whooperup" tend.
ers this advice to ioyaiists, using the words Of
Attorney General Gregory: Keep Your Mouth
Shut, as text: q. a, ~.
You ve been talking TOO much. So have I. We
must have 'talkL1ess days;-evety day.
'Stieber, the German spy chief, claimed that he
won the. Franco-P russian War with his army of
spies ahead Of thettfoops:
Long before the Lnsitania plunged her precious
cargo into forty fathoms of the Atlantic, America
had been invaded by the sneaking spy-army OF
the Germans .r'.'
These treacherous representatives Of the Kaiser
are evetyahere-,s sitting besides you on trains, in
chtrch pews at uncheons given by every kind
Of business organization. They on the streets,
in the theaters and their children in the schools
"They are strong on the rumor stuff they slip
YOU sizzling story about what somebody else
said he knew to be true; they have inside inform
alton, hot off the bat '.'~G
,"And some of us are suckers enough to believe
these canards and then pass them on toNother Pm
Heads as the gospel truth.
ted for soldier in France and purchased by
lurnberjack at Duluth. g.
laYou all have heard about the socks in which
a sweet girl placed a note that answered by
a fisherman at Astoria. Sf.s.
"You heard Of agscldier boy who was sent to
prison for Eve wears because he refused to submit
to minor operation. = %rGs
's''You are familiar with the story of an officer
who was shot at sunrise behind the old hen house
because he failed to salute. 49, @.--n'~7.+
Americans are being fed up on al sorts of dam
nable lies,-lies which sound too silly for sane
person to believe but which grow and grow with
repetition and which tend to create doubt and sap
patriotism. y. .ss....i, n. e..
"Spot these story teilers, croakers, crepe-hang-
ers. : Tell EN- TO lay of, and if they persist 60
over the top then and there with swift jab to
hejawtwhich isswagging for the Kaiser.
sNo jrdge has yet sentenced citizen who took
Il upon himself TO administer junker justice to
Z lie hound in THE German spy army. -.
Washington wants every loyal American to
start swatting lies and spies-now. You are also
asked to talk less to people you don't know-espe-
cially if you know something that might help Ger
many.
"The only kind Of talk to hand out promiseu-
ously is pep talk To utter an unfavotabie word
in public or to listen to gloom stuff is yellow
pure, unlimited saffron. A3%1s w
Constructive criticism? He'll yes! But what
good to tell it to German propagandist Hunt
up a governmental official Tell it to headquar-
tiers, Don't, be a fool. =.
THE fact issthat America is sweeping forward
with the strides of giant toward the battle line
in France. 'j,G ,.~.'
There have been mistakes. The administration
has told us about the real ones Nothing import
ant is being held out on us. With hardly an ex-
ception, the men who are now on the job ore
exempars of highest efficiency and truest patriot
ism. T.
"You and |. every American, man, woman or
child, must back up America with faith. conf
dence, optimism, hope, courage and undying
loyalty. ...-,
"The Kaiser is making special lot of iron
crosses for Americans who help him by careless
talk Don't qualify It's time to stop, look and
listen. If you can't say something that will help
win instead OF lose the war, keep your mouth
shutP
w. S. 8.