Arizona republican., 1920-02-09
By M. C. Vile

By M. C. Vile
 The war is over, we are all aware or that fact. On November II, 1919, we celebrated the first anniversary of the signing of the armistice, and will n few months celebrate the first anniversary of the signing of the Peace Treaty by that sly brutal foe to de- nocracy, THE HUN, a monarchy that planned and builded for over forty years to overthrow the world and -rample 1t under the foot of tyranny.
 For years the German government welded its chain of secret agents until
 | circled the globe. The United States sheltered, fed and fattened hundreds or thousands of these hand biting var ments. The Wflhelmstrasse, the strongest and most deadly of all secret societies ever organized had agents in every city and village throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. Thousands of them were apprehended and brought to justice, but not all of them, at a rough estimate 50 per cent And the other 50 per cent? What Of them we may ask? THEY ARE RIGHT BACK ON THE JOB FOR THE F'ATHERLAND, THE KAISER UND corr. For generation and generation it has been born and bred in them through fear and trickery, it has been ground into their very soul. ONCE A HUN ALWAYS A HUN, yet in our free open-hearted American way, We forgive, try to forget and try to pick up the trend of life and existence where it was interrupted by this worlds greatest crisis. At an awful cost the Hun was whipped and begged for a spot in the sun. but his spirit was not killed. It is very much alive and working overtime in its low un- derhanded deadly way, overlooking no chance, no matter how trivial, to agitate discontentment and unrest, in avr rlf CprnC republic.
 Just fifteen months ago the Huns were murdering defenseless women and children, torpedoing hospital ships loaded with wounded and sinking every ship they came in contact with, even to the small fishing vessels on the Atlantic seaboard, in their hellish sub marine warfare
 We have been so busy with the H. C. of L., giving parades and telling of our experiences during the war, that we have had no time to think of the Hun or his vindictive spirit. The in dustrial unrest that has swept the country has been boosted along di rectly and indirectly by him. The bolsheviki and l. w. w. are his run ming mates. EVERY TIME A DIS CHARGED SOLDIER, SAILOR OR MARINE, tells his hardluck story of hardship and mistreatment, he is un- consciously helping spread propaganda that is meat and drink to the soul of a Hun. How? you will ask. BECAUSE it retards the recruiting to full strength to the United States regular army. BECAUSE stories of that kind help keep out young men that should be in some branch of the military service getting their military training that in case of emergency would enable them to serve their country with 100 per cent efficiency.
 A training that would unconsciously stay with them through life, keeping them in a physical condition that if the emergency arose they could take their posts where they were most needed, in 4S hours after laying down their tools or closing their desks in the in- dustriaI world to pick up the saber or rifle. Every hard luck story told at this time keeps some young man from this training BECAUSE every time a mistreatment and hardship story is told. it is enlarged upon. At each repetition they use their imagination until it becomes a bare faced DIS vari- cation. Not all of them 10 be sure, for