Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-10-03
LIES Of THE hun
I'm EVERY CORNER
lmpsrial Germany Spares No
! Community In y. S.
PLANTING SEEDS OF KUCIuR
0aseardly Assault 10 Under the oirse
tien Of q General stais and Has
Been Prepared With the "
most Carr.
By HARVEY o,HicoINs,

mooS Care.
By HARVEY o'HieoiNs,
Associate Chairman. Committee on Pub
Nc Information. Washington. D. c.
Cfhis 10 the frst Of three articles by
llfr. O'Higgins dealing with the propa-
Ieanda Of the enemy In our country
Nj. Citizen. you are now on the
airing line.
Imperial Germany is not merely at
backing on the western front. She Is
attacking in every community In the
United States.
Her assault Is under the direction OF
khe German general staff. 1t has been
prepared as carefully a. the strategy
and tactics of a military drive. As In
Russia and in Italy. SO here also a
campaign Of German propaganda-a
gas attack Of poisonous lies and ru-
Imors and false reports-has been
launched successfully and is now un.
der way.
The collapse Of Russia was not a
victory for German arms. 1t q a
triumph Of German propaganda.
America is now the strongest enemy
that Germany has. A weakening Of
our public morale is as necessary to
German success as the weakening OF
Russia was. And the attempt to
weaken US has already developed 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 jap
anese. The second proposes to destroy
our domestic unity by encouraging
among us every sort of class dissen-
sion, religious difference. racial preju-
dice and political quarrel.
SIandering the French.
The officials of the Red Cross report
that many loyal mothers are refusing
to let their daughters volunteer as
nurses in France because of rumors
of immoral conditions In the hospitals
there. A detailed story has been cir
culated TO the effect that 200 Red
Cross nurses have recently been re-
turned on a transport from abroad and
secretly removed to maternity hos
pitfalls here as patients. There Is not
a word If truth in the story. 1t has
been investigated by a federal grand
jury in New York city and found to
be false. German sympathizers caught
circulating it have been interned. The
nurses In service in our hospitals in
France have the same discipline and
protection that they have here-and
need it as little. The story has been
invented to hamper the work of the
Red Gross and to prejudice US against
our French allies.
A similar nim 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 was
sent out to the readers of the religious
press asking them to protest to Presi.
dent Wilson. The number Of these
protests showed the success Of the
SANDER.
AS n matter Of fact, no liquor ration
Is served to our troops either here nr
abroad. No army cantecn sells a!co'
hole liquors. BY General Pershing'S
orders. our soldiers in France are for
hidden "either to buy or to accept as
gifts from the inhabitants" any ''alco
1,olic beverages other than light wine
or beer AS there Is little beer sole
In France, General pershing reports
"Men who drink are thus limited t,
the light native wine used by al
French people. Even this Is discour
aged among our troops in every pos
sibie way. hope to secure the co
operation of the French government
to prcvent the sale of all liquors I'm,
wines 10 our troops. Personally,
favot prohibition In the army, but I
Is impracticable and inadvisable t
issue orders that cannot be enforce'
without the cooperation of the Frenc
government"
s%ianderlng Our Soldiers.
Tho charge Of drunkenness anon
our expeditionary forces Is n pre-
German lie designed to alarm tn
mothers and fathers Of the boys VIII
have gone to France. The stories q
immorality consequent upon drunken
ness are equally baseless.
When the recruits for the Nations
army We're first assembled in our cal
comments, the medical examiners scr
as many as 400 out Of every 1000 me
to- The hospitals to he treated for VI
ncrcal diseases. The hospital ndmi.
sion ra,e for venereaI diseases in thos
camps has since been as low as GA.
per 1000, and the rate for the me
IN our ex%ptditionary forces ia Franc
has been as low as Az per 1,ON
That Is tn say, the statistics Of til
surgeon generals Office show that OF
soldiers In France have been aIuo.
ten times us free from the effects {
immortality rs the same sort Of INC
were when they were first drafted
These ISLANDERS upon the nurses m
upon the troops are typical Of II
w"riI OF thc German general staff.
has been fhelr policy ia their cur
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