Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1915 — NO NATION FREE FROM SPIES [ARTICLE]

NO NATION FREE FROM SPIES

.System Has Taken Such Hold That at Present it Is Practically a Universal Curse. Spy stones have flown thick and Ha.st, reading like magazine fiction, yet « sufficient number of persons have * Bro^T-”-■iim'iii ■# m-rtT-n.nlnrl aI| A fsii+t that

the most dangerous group of German spies have their headquarters in the United States. This country has a secret service, it la true, but the complex, underground machinetigkJ s which are so important to the statecraft of Europe at all times and so much relied on during the war, are known to os only through hearsay. It would be easy to become a little puffed up by this. “We American* and aboveboard. We do not work ta the dark.” 1* an obvious comment Yet

espionage is the very natural outcome of the grinding contact of nation against nation as it prevail at ail times. The spy as a type most be highly courageous and devoted to his cause. It gives ns a creepy feeling, just the same, to think that plottings and international may be going on in our busy and peaceful midst. —Detroit News. Probably the most important woman’s dab is the rolling pin.