Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1918 — Don’t Let Silent, Ghostly Hun Sentiment Find Lodgment in Your Brain [ARTICLE]

Don’t Let Silent, Ghostly Hun Sentiment Find Lodgment in Your Brain

By C. M. WRIGHT,

American Alliance foe Labor and Democracy

The Hun fights wherever there is a chance to break down civilization’s resistance. And one of those chances is among the folks at home. If the will to win breaks down in the homes and shops and mills at home the boys at the front will have a much harder time holding back the Hun army. It is as dangerous to have Hun sentiment get a footing back of the lines as it would be to have an armed Hun force execute a flank movement and get in behind our fighting lines. So look out for the Hun at honle. Be a traffic cop to help steer the attacking current as it should go. And don’t stop at watching the Hun sentiment of the noisy, blatant kind. Watch for the silent, ghostly Hun sentiment that worms its way in and out, elusive and treacherous. There are ghost Huns, as well as heavy-browed flesh-and-blood ones. The ghost Hun is an idea; an idea that gets into the heads of careless persons, warping their thoughts, coming from perhaps nowhere in particular but creating havoc as it goes. Keep your head straight. Keep your country’s ideals before > you and plug for them; plug hard for victory. Don’t let a ghost Hun find lodgment in your brain. Keep liberty’s blazing torch in view and liberty’s flaming, inspiring purpose before you. \