THE KAISERITE IN AMERICA.—101 GERMAN LIES. The “Watchman” herewith begins the publication of one hunderd and one German lies that have been circulated in this country for the purpose of cre- ating distrust and unrest on the part of our people. Many of them you have no doubt heard in circulation and just possibly gave them a bit of credence. The St. Louis Republic has run each one down to its source and proves every one the lie that it is. Read them carefully so that you will be in a position to refute similar ones that are retold to you; and also to convince yourself that the most dan- gerous, the most pernicious enemy we have is the man or woman who, within our own gates, undertakes to help the Huns by sowing discord that may pre- vent the perfect unity of purpose on our part that will be necessary to win « the war. LIE No. 1. That Mr. Joseph P. Tu- multy, secretary to President Wilson, was found guilty of treason, sent to Fort Leavenworth, stood up against a wall and shot. (Secretary Tumulty, in an official communication, has nailed this as a lie, without any foundation). LIE No. 2. That a sweater knit in St. Louis for the soldiers in France, was sold by Red Cross workers and identified by the woman who knit it by a piece of currency sewed into the fabric. (Heads of the Red Cross society in St. Louis have branded this as a bald fabrication. Nothing handled by the Red Cross society is sold). LIE No. 3. That all the boys and men between the ages of 16 and 35 years of age are to be drafted into the army by January 1. (Congress fixed the ages of men subject to the draft at 21 to 31 years, inclusive, and has never changed this rule). LIE No. 4. That tobacco collected through the various agencies for the men overseas is not given to them un- til they have paid from 50 cents to $2.50 a package for it. (The Republic brands this a lie. The Republic has sent several thous- and dollar's worth of tobacco to France, and not one cent has been charged the soldiers for it). LIE No. 5. That no soldier or, sail- or, after he leaves American soil, is permitted to write home. (This lie is patent to hundreds of men and women who have been re- ceiving mail from friends and rela- tives in the expeditionary force in France). LIE No. 6. Mrs. Charles G. Roe, of Chicago, says a caller told her that “everybody I know of is getting the cost of the wool they knit from the Government, and you ought to quit knitting until your expenses are al- lowed.” : : (Congress has never authorized anyone to pay one cent for wool or for labor in the knitting of articles for the soldiers and sailors). LIE No. 7. That the recent regis- tration of women was to find out how much money each one had in bank, how much of this was owed and every- thing about each registrant’s personal affairs. ; had ile this lie was given credenc Wooo women who should have known better, still it is without foun- dation from the very fact that the registration was voluntary, and that questions of a personal nature were not asked. Any woman who register- ed knows this). LIE No. 8. That the millions col- lected from the public for Red Cross work goes into the pockets of thieves, and that the soldiers and sailors get none of it, nor any of its benefits. This lie was reported by J. H. Davis, secretary of the Elks at Mitchell, S. D. (Men and women at the head of the Red Cross society are the most up- right imaginable. They were selected for the work because of this fact. Work done abroad and in the army camps and cantonments in the United States by the Red Cross nails this as pro-German propaganda). LIE No. 9. That Base Hospital Unit (Washington University) No. 21 had been annihilated while en route overseas, or that leading members of the organization had been executed as spies by the American Govern- ment. J (Washington administration em- phatically discredited this assertion in official communications). LIE No. 10. That canned goods ut up by the housewives of St. Louis De Ro Ye seized by the Government and appropriated to the use of the ar- my and navy. (This was run down by the Wom- en’s Central committee on Food Con- servation and found to be pro-German “hunk.” Government does not want canned goods from citizens). LIE No. 11. Mary Reid Cory, who * recently visited Chicago in the inter- est of Belgian prisoners in Germany, says that at a dinner recently a wom- an went to her amd said, “We are every bit as bad as the Germans be- cause the soldiers in training are be- ing instructed to put out the eyes of every German captured.” She said she had a son in one of the camps and he had written this to her. (Absolutely without foundation. Any man who is taking a course of in- struction at any United States army camp will brand this as a falsehood). LIE No. 12. That all the money in- vested in Liberty bonds by men and women and children throughout the United States will be lost. (Liberty bonds are backed by all the finances of the United States. When- ever the money so invested is “lost,” this government will have collapsed). LIE No. 13. Comes from J. K. Kid- der, enrolling clerk at the Wisconsin State Senate, who says he has repeat- edly heard that soldiers at one of the Northern cantonments are seriously ill with a malady which army physi- cians have been unable to diagnose. (Surgeons at the cantonment in question assert there is only the usu- al amount of sickness in camp, and that they know the identity of each of the ailments. This story was started to frighten relatives of men at the camp and to discourage recruiting among their friends). LIE No. 14. This was sent in by a Red Cross worker. It is to the effect that at Camp Funston “fourteen sol- diers 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 a rule by a soldier of German ex- traction he is lined up against a wall and shot.” (Officers at Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kan., laughed when they heard this lie. They said an inspection of the camp would refute it better than any statement from them. Soldiers at the camp hadn’t heard of such con- ditions and knew that none of their number had been shot). LIE No. 15. That the Pullman company will not hire a man who does not wear a button showing he has gontributed to the Y. M. C. A. war und. (Officials of the Pullman company | deny this). ’ i i i | LIE No. 16. That sweaters knit by | St. Louis women for soldiers in the trenches wear out in less than two | weeks because of the inferior work- manship in the garment. Manv wom- = have quit knitting because of this ie. (Members of the Red Cross society here say that this is the most outra- geous lie they have heard.” The life of the sweaters, even under the hard- est sort of conditions, is two months or more). LIE No. 17. Women report they are terrorized over the mysteriously disseminated that gov- ernment 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 win- dows because of this fear. (Government agents have no inten- tion now, nor will they have in the fu- ture, 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, nothing more). LIE No. 18. 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 utter- ly without foundation. The morale of men at the training camps cannot be better. Schools are not being inter- fered with for any purpose, they de- clare). LIE No. 19. 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. D. Gallentine, of Morrison, I11., writes that she was told. (The question of religion does not enter into the giving of commissions. Merit and ability to take the inten- sive training are the things that count at the officers’ training camps. Ask any man who has attended one). LIE No. 20. Mrs. Gallentine also tells of a neighbor’s maid who would not register when the women’s cen- sus was taken, because “all they were doing it for was to get the girls’ names so they could entice them into the cities and make white slaves of them.” (How positively ridiculous is a sto- ry of this sort! If you believe it, ask any of the women who registered, or who took an active part in furthering the registration). LIE No. 21. Harvard, Ill, contrib- utes another religious lie—that when the war is over the Roman Catholics here will be treated just as they were i Mexico after the revolution started ere. (It is needless to say the American government will never interfere in matters of religion). : LIE No. 22. This one is familiar, but has a new dress this time: That a mother sent her son at a training camp a big birthday cake, and then wrote him how he liked it. He replied he had never received the cake, but that he had passed an officers’ tent and had seen him eating it. (Wives, mothers and sweethearts in St. Louis of the thousands of men who have gone to the training camps and cantonment will nail this lie hard and fast if you will take the trouble to ask them about it). ‘ LIE No. 23. Rector of Holy Inno- cents’ Church at Racine, Wis., reports this lie about a family: That the fam- ily was put to death for giving out in- formation which led to the destruction | That | of England’s greatest general. a son was executed at Fort Sheridan, Ill.,, when caught in work of a treach- erous nature, and that his religious affiliations had much to do with his disloyalty. (Government agents say this is on- ly one of a million other lies of like nature which pro-German propagan- dists are circulating. Of course, there is no foundation for it). . LIE No. 24. Mrs. Henry W. Wag- on, 4129 Kossuth evenue, says a hus- ky delivery wagon driver called at her home with a parcel a day or so ago. She asked him why he wasn’t in the army, and he replied the government makes no provision for dependent families. (Government makes this provision for dependents: Men with families or other dependents will not be called in the draft until an emergency, which is not even thought of now, arises. Heads of families are not even urged to enlist voluntarily, although provis- ion is made in the way of insurance and the like for their dependents if they care to join the colors). LIE No. 25. The sweater with. the $10 bill sewed into its fabric which the | pro-Germans say the Red Cross sold, has appeared this time in Jefferson City. Man told Missouri Council of | Defense yesterday of the lie. (Robert Glenn, publicity manager for the Council, says the tale is too utterly ridiculous to believe, and is circulated merely as a scheme to thwart the efforts of the Red Cross). LIE No. 26. From Bonne Terre, Mo., That two Chicago nurses were killed in a mutiny, and that 14 men had committed suicide at Jefferson Barracks because of the ill treatment | accorded them. : (Commandant at Jefferson Bar- racks offers post records to disprove the second lie. While it is impossible to learn where the “Chicago nurses” were killed, still, it is safe to say this is but another piece of “bunk).” LIE 27. Here’s one from St. Fran- | cois, Mo., That a St. Louis father was! called to the deathbed of his son, an enlisted man in the navy, and that no | privacy was accorded him. During | this last interview, however, the atten- tion of the armed guard was distract- ed, and the son exhibited his body, saying his legs had been shot away in a mutiny. . (Secretary of the Navy refutes this lie by the statement that there is not a better behaved body of men in the world than those in the United States | Navy, and that the excellent disci- pline since the outbreak of war only proves that conditions for the enlist- ed men are ideal in every respect). (Continued next week). Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday, the Sunday preced- ation, for an instant. this logically, Logically, your store! No question of build, of taste, of price. confronts us with difficulty. 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