Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1917 — NOW ATTACK RED CROSS [ARTICLE]

NOW ATTACK RED CROSS

Officers Directed to Trace Source of Pro-German Propaganda.—Spread False Stories. f Washington.—Pro-German propaganda, which has long busied itself against the government of the United States, has at last attacked the Red Cross so nearly in the open that General Manager Harvey D. Gibson has sent a telegram to all division managers in the United States to report to him the source of every attack. “Rumors and innuendoes critical of and calculated to embarrass the Red Cross are being industriously circulated as part of an .unpatriotic propaganda," wired Mr. Gibson. “Many stories, utterly unwarranted in fact, emanate simultaneously .from too many parts of the country to be merely accidental.” Mr. Gibson intimates that the source of the propiaganda will be found. He says: “Every criticism or innuendo against the Red Cross should be immediately Challenged and follow’ed up.” The stories are of many kinds. One is that the Red Cross sells and keeps the money for sweaters and other articles given for the soldiers. Another is that nearly all money contributed goes for expenses and salaries.” Of course the stories are maliciously untrue. As Mr. Gibson says: “The Red Gross is run as an open book. It has no secrets. It is making a sincere effort to serve -mankind, and is doing it as carefully and economically as it kmJws how. The utmost effort is being jnade to give publicity to all its activities.”