Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1919-01-31
Imperial Germany Spares No
Community in U. S.
PLANTING SEEDS OF KULTUR
DastardIy Assault Is Under the Direc-
tion Of a General staff and Has
Been Prepared With the Ut
most Care.
ey HARVEY o,HIoeINs.


r. ganda OF the enemy in our country)
q, Mr. Citizen, you are now on tn
firing line.
Imperial Germany is not merely at
lacking on the western front. She Il
attacking in every community in thu
-. United States.
!. Her assault Is under the direction OF
. the German general staff. II has beer
e. prepared as carefully as the strategy
and tactics OF military drive. AS In
Russia and in Italy, so here also a
campaign Of German propaganda
gas attack OF poisonous lies and ru-
mors and false reports-has been
launched successfully and is now UNI
der way.
The collapse Of Russia was not a
victory for German arms. 1t was 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 10 destroy our unity of action
with our allies by setting us against
the French, the British and the Jap
alcse. The second proposes to destroy
our domestic unity by encouraging
among MS every sort of class dissen-
sion, religious difference. racial preju-
dice and political quarrel.
snindering 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 transport from abroad and |
secretly removed to maternity hos
pitfalls here as patients. There is not
word of truth in the story. 1t has
been investigated by federal grand
jury In New York city and found to
be false. German sympathlzers caught
II have been informed. The
nurses In service in our hospitals in
France have the same discipline and
protection that they have here-and
need II 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 was
sent out to the readers of the religious ,
)ress asking them To protest to Presi-
lent Wilson. The number of these ,
protests showed the success of the
lander. ,
5 served TO our troops either here or 7
broad. No army canteen sells alco- 81,
olic liquors. BY General Pershing's q
riders, our soldiers in France are for
idden ''either 10 buy, or to accept as
lifts from the inhabitants" any "alco- :
Ole beverages other than light wine
r beer" As there is little beer sold
! France. General Pershlng reports :,
Men who drink are thus limited to :,
he light native wine used by all
rench people. Even this IN dlscour- >,
ged among our troops In every pos
bic way. l hope to secure the CO. =,
peration OF the French government =,
} prevent the sale OF all liquors. and
ines TO our troops. Personally. / ~,
xypr lr
imprncticable and inadvisabie to
sue orders that cannot be enforced
Ithout the cooperation OF the French
'vernmentS ~
slanderina Our Soldiers. n,
The charge OF drunkenness among
II expeditionary forces is Il pro yc
'rnan lie designed to alarm the
others and fathers of the boys who
We gone 10 France. The stories of is
consequent upon drunken
SIS are equally baseless
When the recruits for The National 81,
my We're first assembled IN our can =
lnents. the medical examiners sent
many rs 400 out OF every 1900 men
the hospitals 10 be treated for We sis
real diseases. The hospital admis-
"A rate FOR venereal diseases in those sits
nps has since been as low as Gt4 ne,
+ LOCO, and the rate FOR the men On,
our expedilionary forces in France IN,
: been as low as Az per 1000 sh,
at Is to say. the statistics OF the
'gson generals Office show that our chi
diers In France have been almost wi,
times as free from the effects OF q
morality as the same sort OF men be
re when they were first drafted {.
'hese ISLANDERS upon the nurses aud mo-
N the troops are typical OF the hes
rk OF the German general stan. II va,
been their policy in their cam ;,
gns OF propaganda TO circulate In sw,
enemy country the falsehoods that ton
z appeal to that country's preiu- :.
IS. America, in its Ignorance OF all tco,
nee. outside OF the tourist hannts