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PAIGE-DETROIT MOTOR CAR COMPANY, DETROIT, MICHIGAN , W.C STEWARD, Dealer, Liberal, Km. ONE HUNDRED AND ONE V - GKKMAN lilEH T Lie No. 47. Dr. Charles Rellly. oculist. G15 Locust street, says he lias been Informed West Point officers refuse to recognize by salutation of ficers in tho new national army. (This Is an unmitigated lie, as newspaper reports, photographs and interviews coming from all points in tho United States have shown how appreciative' the West Point men are of the great patriotism displayed by their brother officers In the national army.) Lie No. 48. Pro-German propa gandists are spreading reports that thousands of dratted men are. de serting from the national army can tonments; that hundreds already have been shot. (Army officers and newspaper cor respondents, always on -hand at the. various cantonments, say the spirit of patriotism is 'bo high and the men so well satisfied that they wouldn't desert If all guards were put to sleep.) Lie No. 49, Reports are being cir culated that men who enlisted in the ,iavy before December 15, 1917, are to be grabbed for the army, as the navy now is full. (Washington has Issued an official order allowing drafted men to enlist In the navy up to December 15.) Lie No. 50. Among the absurd ' Vjimors is one that the United States (proposes to confiscate money on de posit In banks. (The absurdity of this statement Is obvloua on its face. This rumor Is wholly without foundation, and prob ably circulated for- an evil purpose: Secretary McAdoo haB Issued a state ment that the government "has no power to confiscate the money of depositors- In banks,") Lie No. 51. From B. L., a St. Loulslan, comesword that he was listening to a conversation the other day, when someone remarked: "You never hear of Morgan or Schwab any more because they Were killed three months ago." (Morgan and Schwab are still transacting' business, .at the old stand.) . Lie No. 52. A reader at Chrls-topher,.-IU., tells the Republic that it is a common story thereabbuts that money contributed to the Y. M. C. A. la not used for the benefit of soldiers, but is turned into a fund for the suppression of liquor making and saloons. - (There is no truth. Ih the story, naturally. All money contributed to the Y. M, C. A.s war fund la used in making life more comfortable for vthe men at the front. It is used.Jn itabllshlng "huts" for the soldiers. 'If you want more proof of this, ask the first soldier you meet Lie No. 53. The Shelby County s Chapter of the American Red Cross, located at Shelblna. Mo., says this report is circulated there: That socks which Red Cross workers knit tor the soldiers are thrown aside as quickly as a hole appears In them; (hat soldiers are not permitted to wear mended hose. (This Is not a difficult story to an swer, but the answer must not bo misconstrued. Soldiers are not per mitted to wear mended socks while they are on an activo tour of duty. It Is readily understood that no man could hike any distance at all were he wearing mended socks. However, soldiers who receive socks from the Red Cross nurse them tenderly and make them last as long as they will possibly hold together. Never fear, Shelblna, that American soldiers waste anything given them.) Lie No. 54t B. Schwartz, 1330 North Newstead avenue. Bays he over heard a conversation the other day In which it was stated as a fact that an American transport had been sunk and. that the mother nt a soldier a- board wrote Secretary .Baker and asked for Information, that Secretary Baker replied: "Don't worry; your son Is lying safely at the bottom of the Bea." (It Is understood at once what the effect of such a story would be on a mothers mind a mother whose son Is overseas or is about t go. But there is no truth In the story at all. Secretary Baker Is human, and would not reply to a letter In such a flippant manner. Relatives of all men who lose their lives in the service are immediately notified. No effort at secrecy in a case of this kind.) Lie No. 55. From a St.Louis sou rce comes this one: That a German doctor In the United' States Army at Camp Bowie, Tex., used spinal men ingitis serum instead of typhoid se rum, sending i.iuu men io me nos pltal, and that he was shot for it the latter part of last week. (Col. F. P. Reynolds, Surgeon Gen eral's Office, Washington, D. C, had this to say of the report: "It Is most ntbUrd and one of the wildest stories I have yot heard.") Lie No. 56. Virgil A. Duff of Pearl. 111., classes this one, which he sent yesterday, as the "biggest He of them all": That drafted soldiers at the cantonments will not be permit ted arms or ammunition during their training because they would rebel and kill their officers. (Duff wasn't far, wrong about the size of this Ile.but it is self contra dictory. If drafted menswlll rebel in can town en ts while training and 'can not bo. permitted to handle firearms or ammunition, what will prevent them from doing the same thing when they have completed their course of instruction?) LleNo. 57 Esta York. Elkvllle; Jackson County, Ills., wants to knew it there Is any truth In the f report that President Wilson would seize all hogs In the country, even those which farmers raise to kill for home consumption. (By co means Is there any truth in the report. It is pure German pro paganda, nothing more.) Lie No. 58 A Benton, Ills., read er sends The Republic a clipping from his home paper, which, under glaring headlines,, devotes half "a col umn to aBtory tq the effect thatXler man prisoners are so well fed that women living in the cities nearby are up In arms because of waste and the class of food served. He says this particular story Is a fair sample of the news this paper prints weekly, In a community of German folk. (It is not denied by Washington that German prisoners In America are well fed. They are. But there Is no waste, and the women living near the camps are not up in arms because of either the food served or the wasto which the Benton paper says Is so apparent.) Lie No. 59 Propagandists are circulating a story that boys In the cuntoments are not permitted to see home newspapers, so they cannot tell what is going on In their home towns or in the world in general. (Quite naturally,. there Is no truth In this story. The' Republic is able to nail this He. This paper circulates freely In cantonments and at train ing camps.) Lie No. 60 This story was freely circulated last week: That men at Camp Funston are so. poorly cared for and are so despondent because of their unwillingness to serve In the army that they end their lives by throwing themselves under trains. (This Is so plainly a lie that denial Is not necessary. However, soldiers on permls8lon In St. Louis say their fare Is excellent and their treatment also. No deaths can occur In the camps, without the news becoming known Immediately. Newspaper correspondents at the camps do not report any such loss of life. Lie No. 61 Mrs.S. of Farming ton, Mo., says that it Is common gos sip In that section that half of all the funds pledged to the Red Cross In America will be given by the Govern ment to the Catholics. (The Government Isn't Interested In, religion Just now. It's principal business Is carrying oirtho war. No money, no matter what source It comes, from, is given to any -religious sect. The Government is not touch ing a nickel of Red Cross money,) 'Lie No. 62 A -young woman at Clinton, Mo., writes that it has been difficult to secure signers -for the Hoover Food Pledges there, because of "bunk" being circulated .to pre vent it. Children are told not to sign the cards, Jtecause they will be sent to Germany to work for prison ers, or sent to an army post to do farm work. . (Of course there la no truth" In either report. It is pro-German sen timent seeking to discount war prep arations in America which is respon sible for this sort of thing.) '" Lie No. 63 Here is one of the worst lies yet brought to tho atten tion of The Republic: That German spies in the government printing office have .injected bacteria of cne form or another- into the Liberty Bonds, which in the course of a few months leaves them a dirty gray piece of flimsy paper which crumbles at the slightest-touch. Because of this lie, farmers In the vicinity of Razenburg 111., are afraid to invest in the Bonds. (The Federal agents In charge of V the Government Printing Office at Washington declare there Is no word of truth in the story. There are no spies in the plant. Neither will the bonds fade and crumble away after a few months.) Lie No. 64 J. B. Ross, a St. Louis patriot, advances the information that a letter carrier, talking ' in a downtown restaurant the other day, declared 8,000 United 8tates soldiers had already been killed In France and that a soldier at Jefferson Bar racks gave him all such Information, which the Government withholds. (Of course, tho letter carrier was retailing some more "bunk." There has been no such casualty list In Franco, and soldiers at Jefferson Bar racks know less of What Is going on in the army than many clylltans. Just propaganda, that's all.) Lie No. 65 A man wants to know It it Is true "that two soldiers were frozen to death In a trench at Fort Sill and that the nation Is losing from 30 to 40 men a day In France, of which no Information reaches the newspapers. (Tho Republic has a start corres pondent at Fort Sill. He has access to the news Jthero. No soldiers have been frozen to death. There Is a death list almost dally now from France, but every soldier's nanto is glven-thc public as quickly as It is sent tho man's parents. No effort Js being made to suppress this sort of Infor mation. The censor holds up news concerning movements of troops, am munition, supplies and the llKc. Nothing else.) Llo No. 66 Another reader wants to know it It Is true that men are re fusing to enlist In the regular army and aro offering themselves for other branches because they have been told thoy will not seo servlco in Franco It they go In an engineers, Blgnal corps, aviators and the like. (Every man who goes Into tho army, nioro than likely, will be sent overseas sooner or later. Enlistments In the regular army are not falling off. National Guardsmen, engineers. aviators and mess men already are on duty In France, thus giving the' He to this story.) Lie No. 67 Omar D. Gray of The Sturgeon (Mo.) Leader, sends a din ning from Tho Democrat-Tribune of Jefferson City, Mo., to the effect that knitting for the soldiers and sailors Is unnecessary and declaring that "press reports Indicate the War De campaign as hysteria," This story, Gray says, is going the rounds ot the small-town newspapers. (Mr. Grag Is doing tho public and the Government a great favor In call ing attention to this sort of propa ganda. Quite recently tho executives at Washington, in published state ments and In public utterances, beg ged, actually begged, the women of the United States not to give up their knitting for one instant. More, more and still MORE articles must be knit they said. The effect or such articles as that from the Jefferson City paper Is to put a stop to knitting, the very thing pro-Germans want; anything to .hurt the cause In America'. Tho editors of small town newspapers should be more careful, or at least investigate the truth of reports such as these, before giving publicity to' them.) . Lie No. 68 Maiden, Mo, reports pro-Germans are circulating steries there concerning the health and sser- als or nurses employed in Red Cross work, both In the United 8tates and: overseas. This person said he was told recently In St. Louis that 600 nurses In America alone are now lit In' hospitals. (It Is questionable whether such a He was ever told in St, Louis. It Is the first time It has been brought to the attention ot The Republic. At any rate, while somo nurses may be Ill and who doesn't get sick now and then? there are not 600 of them in all the hospitals In the United' 8Utes. The morals of women em ployed In Red Cross hospital work, are above reproach.) Lie No. 69 A story recently ori ginated In Germany to the effect that a woman spy has been executed;' Ini the United States. Its widespread' use Is nothing but propaganda. jj (Tho State Department sent an of ficial denial of the report to all Amer ican Consuls and legations In Euro pean neutral countries. The namo of tho woman was given as Anna Hultcms. Just "bunk" that's all.) , Llo No. 70 For 2 days there Is a a rumor current about tho country that an American transport going ov erseas had been sunk, with heavy loss of lite. It was said that two transports, bearing 11,000 men and tho superureadnaught Texas, naa been sunk, and that the American Government was suppressing the' news. (Tho Government at Washington announced last night that tho source of this He, termed propaganda, had been unearthed In Guadlajara, Mexi co, where it was printed In a Spanish newspaper, and said to have been a. cablegram received from Spain. The1 Government announces this Is moro German propaganda and that there Is no word of truth in' it.) Lie No. 71 Tho Democratlc-Tri-buno or Jefferson City, Mo., prints' a story to the effect that 3,000 girls are to bo enlisted by the Y, W. C. A. of Seattle, Wash., as dancing part ners for soldiers at Camp Lewis, and that they aro to be paid a minium of $15 a week and a commission ot E cents on each dance. (There Is no reasonable excuse for the publication of such a story. "It is plainly propaganda. Such stories, hurt campaigns for raising funds for legitimate enterprises. Three thou sand girls at $15 a week means $45, 000 a week salaries, or more than $2,000,000 a year. Nothing but. "bunk.") Llo No. 72 A report has been cir culated and has gained tomo cred- jence In certain localities to the effect that the food administration has lim ited the supply of salt because, If salt cannot be obtained farmers will be unable to cure and pack pork for home consumption. (The administration emphatically denies this story. There is no gen eral stortage or salt, nor have 'steps' been taken to limit the use of salt.) 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