PROPAGANDA
OF HUN BEARS
LUTE FRUIT
LONDON. Sept 7. (by mail).
Boastfulness and lack of understand
ing are responsible for the failure of
Germany's huge propaganda efforts
After forty years of experience in
this work. Germany can show but
little fruits for its labor.
On the other hand. America, with a
record of loss than four years, can
credit itself with being the most sue
cessful of all the belligerents in the
spreading of propaganda.
Colonel John Buchan, director of
intelligence of the British ministry of
information, today said the German
propaganda is “on the whole ineffec
tive” and declared that “when history
comes to decide which country was
the most successful in its propaganda
campaign, it won’t be Germany it •
will be America."
“We here have had occasion to study
the extraordinary merits of the Ger
man machine which Germans had been
building for forty years." said Colonel
Buchan. "On the whole its product
has been rather ineffective because
of its lack of psychological acumen.
"The Hun boasts too much and un
derestimates the people against whom
his campaign is directed—as, for in
stance, America.
"He makes queer slips.
"At the beginning of the war the
Kaiser sent an address to the Moham
medan chiefs of India, in which he
pointed out that he the Kaiser was
their real friend. The address was
elaborately gotten up, engrossed on
the finest vellum. But it was bound
in pigskin.
"Here was an Instance of the Hun's
tendency to overlook important de
tails, for tile pig is an animal the Mo
hammedans regard with horror.
Huns Waste Their Cash.
"The propaganda scheme of the
Germans was most elaborate, but it
has been overdone. They have spent
at least $75,000,000 annually since the
war began, some of which went to
produce most absurd publications. A1
so, they printed too many. The scheme
might be described as 'kolossal' but
stupid.
"American propaganda lias been
conducted with a rare instinct for
publicity.
"Take the American Tied Cross in
Italy, France and Russia, as well as
the work of the V. M. ('. A. This was
practical propaganda. In tending the
sick and wounded the American Red
Gross proved America's sympathy to
the allies.
“The committee on public informa
tion In Washington appeals to the in
telligence of the world. The American
secret service Is a fine organization
and has some splendid men in it.
They managed to get hold of most
valuable documents which were pub
lished at exactly the right time.
“America is very much alive to the
; value of news in propaganda, and the
! right kind of news. She hasn’t been
| obsessed, like the older countries in
J Kurope, with secrecy. The soldier
j professional soldier is always Inelln
! ed to make a mystery of his work.
It is not always easy to get a response
from him to an intelligent question
the answer of which may be of no
value to the enemy but may be of
great value to the people.
Names Arc Essential.
"A war of nations can’t be an anon
ymous war. The people must be taken
into the confidence of their govern
ment. They want to know something
of the organization of their armies
and the general who commands them.
"Take for example the Official Gaz
ette of the United States which on
July lJth told of the organization of
the American army and gave the
names of the commanding generals.
"That's common sense.
"America has just established pro
paganda agencies in all allied and
neutral countries. Their policy is the
same as in America. There is no
jealousy. They put all their Interests
in the common stock "
Colonel Buchan is reluctant to boast
of his own country's efforts at propa
ganda. But German newspapers re
cently have paid it the highest com
pliment in concentrating a campaign
of “hate” against Lord Northeliffe,
for what they term Great Britain’s
"pernicious" propaganda.
Miles of Butterflies
Do Much Damage
in Yakima Valley
YAKIMA. Wash.. Oct. ?> -Swauk
valley in Kittitas county recently has
been visited by a vast swap • of but
terflies. The swarm was described ’
by valley residents as from three to
four miles in width and lift* n miles
long.
The butterflies are believ. I to he
the product of the caterpillar test
which last summer destroyed vegeta- ;
tion over a large area in the vicinity
of Bumping lake. A similar swarm
was observed recently in the Tampico j
region. ' *
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WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN I
FRANCE. Sept. 1 (by mail). "They I
are developing nerves of iron over
here, and nothing scares them that
Is. nothing the Hermans can do."
It was an army chaplain who said
it. a man the hoys all loved and ad
mired for his courage and devotion
under lire The chaplain told a little
story to Illustrate his statement.
This chaplain carries a folding field
altar, which he sets up wherever he
finds a cave and holds services among
the men where he finds them. His
services are popular, it goes without
saving.
While saying prayers during one of
these services in a cellar close to the
trenches, a Herman bomhradment I
broke loose One shell exploded just
outside the cellar, making a terrific
noise. But one man broke the silence
of the prayer inside the cellar this
chap could not resist an "() Christ!";
The rest kept their heads bowed
and the chaplain finished his prayer ,
and ended the service. The man who
hail made the exclamation lingered
after the others had gone, and with
hhis head hanging in shame tip
preached the chaplain.
"I'm sorry. Father." he said, "hut 1
forgot myself, and just couldn’t hold
it In 1 guess I'm a baby compared
to the rest of the fellows. Some time
I'll learn to he brave In silence.”
"it was on*1 of those times when I
couldn't say anything." explained tin !
chhaplaln. "so 1 just shook hands with
him and felt honored to do it."
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