The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-09-11
German Lies Nailed.

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LIE No. 12. That all the money
, invested in Liberty Bonds by men
, and women and children through.
, out the United States will be lost.
Liberty Bonds are backed by all
the finances of the United States
. Whenever the money so invested is
"lost," this Government will have
collapsed.)
LIE No. 10. Comes from ]. X.
Kidder. enrolling clerk at the Wis
consin State Senate, who says he has
repeatedly heard that soldiers at
one Of the Northern environments
are seriously i'll with malady which
army physicians have been unable
to diagnose.
(Surgeons at the cantonment in
question assert there is only the
usual amount of sickness in camp,
and that they know the identity of
each of the ailments. This story
was started to brighten relatives of
men at the camp and to discourage
recruiting among their friends.)
LIE No. II. This was sent in by
a Red Cross worker. 1t is to the
effect that at Camp Funston -four
teen soldiers are sleeping on one
bale of hay there because there is
no bedding or anything to make
them comfortable" and that ''for
the slightest infraction of rule a
soldier be of German extraction, he is
lined up against a wall and shot"
(Oficers at Camp Funston, Fort
Riley, Kan, laughed when they
heard this lie. They said an inspec-
ton of the camp would refute it bet
ter than any statement from him
Soldiers at the camp hadn't heard
of such conditions and knew that
none of their number had been shot,
LIE No. 10. That the Pullman
Company will not hire a man who
does not wear a bottom showing he
was contributed to the Y, NJ. c. A.
war fund.
(Oficials of the Pullman Company
deny this.)
LIE No. 10. That sweaters knit
by st. Louis women for soldiers in
the trenches wear out in less than
two weeks because of the inferior
workmanship in the garment. Many
women have quit their knitting be-
cause OF this lie.
members of the Red Cross So
ciety here say this is the most out
rageous lie they have heard. The
life OF the sweaters, even under the
hardest sort of conditions, is two
months or more)
LIE No II. Women report they
are terroriZed over the information
mysteriously disseminated that Gov
eminent agents are to raid all houses
exhibiting food conservation cards,
to determine that no meat is eaten
on "meatless" days. Many cards
have been quietly removed from the
windows because of this fear
Government agents have no in
tention now, nor will they have in
the future, of raiding private homes
where there is no reason to believe
agents OF the Kaiser are hidden.
Men and women are on their honor
to observe the "meatless" days, moth
ing more.)
LIE No. IS Repetitions of the
lies that schools in towns at or near
training camps are to be closed be-
cause girls are about to become moth
ers come in droves. Towns in the
neighborhOod of any camp site are
picked by Kaiser aids for this canard.
investigators declare this is
utterly without foundation. The
morale of men at the training camps
cannot he better. Schools are not
being interfered with for any pur-
pose, they declare.)
LIE No. 10. That all of the
"plums" at the officers training
camps fall to Roman Catholics. /
"You just watch and you'll see that
it is So" Mrs. C. ID. Gallentine of
Morrison, H., writes that she was
told.
(The question of religion does not
enter into the giving of commissions.
Merit and ability to take the inten-
siye training are the things that
count at the officers training camps.
Ask any man who has attended one.)
LIE No. 20. Mrs. Gallentine al
so tells of a neighbours maid who
would not register when the wom-
ems census was taken, because "all
they were doing it for was TO get the
girls names so they could entice