| Show More MoeS S Than I. I Germen Women Spy For F or Kaiser in U G S. S By Dy Max Cook Is your neighbor a German spy spy Mr Maker laker Is the youthful youth youth- ful debutante who audaciously held a j tete-a-tete tete with you at last nights night's dinner dance while dance while your our wife was not looking looking looking-a a German spy Sw- Mr Club Man Is the head waiter j In your favorite club who hangs over you perpetually fills your our every want j instantaneously a German spy Ridiculous Of course not you say Take a glance at the records of j the German spies already captured j In the United States then look backover back backover over oyer your own actions since war was wats declared between this country ana ano Germany and ask yourself if you ou have said anything il In public that that that- j if heard b by a spy spy might might give aid and comfort to the enemy Do you know all about your neighbor neighbor neighbor neigh neigh- bor Do you ou know all about that debutante Do you know that that head waiter cannot possibly be there thereto to gather just such threads of in for mation that and clubman clubman clubman club club- man might accidentally drop In conversation conversation conversation con con- Ridiculous A prominent secret service operator operator operator opera opera- tor says sas there are German spies in the United States He says that 25 per cent of at this quarter million intelligence intelli gence ence agents are women women some some of at them hem exceedingly beautiful all aU at at- But Dut all ll are wily women with service of the kaiser first at heart using their utmost wits wit nerve and nd wiles to to do damage to to your jour j brother rather son or or father over there and yourself your neighbors and your our country over here The of opinion among secret ecret service men who are on the Job jobs is s that 90 per cent of this marvelous sp spy organization are naturalized American citizens s sA A secret service man who has been at it work on the German spy system In hi n this country for months was asked asked ask ask- ed d the questions What Is a German spy What does he or he-or or she she look look like How can you youell tell ell a German spy from an ordinary person Jerson You cannot he answered uness unless un less ess you make it a a. business study them and keep continually after atter them Most of at them are clever but this very cleverness is what gives them away A parson asked and got permission to go through a no plant where large sheets of ot rubber are manufactured to see how the thug thing was done so he could tell his family tami- tami family ly 1 and congregation The guard who wha conducted him was a United States secret service man The two cameto cameto came cameto to a machine from which rolled largo large sheets of rubber May I have piece of ot that sheet rubber I would like to take It home as a souvenir said the parson Certainly said the secret service serviceman serviceman serviceman man as he reach reached for tor his pocket knife By the time the secret service man had opened his knife b blade ade however the parson had had opened his own and was drawing the blade rapidly between between between be be- tween his lips wetting it It Placing his hand on the parsons parson's shoulder the secret service man calmly said Im going to tako take a C once nce and arrest you You claim to be a minister minis minis- ter It is hardly probable that a minister would know that you have to wet a blade of at a knife before you youcan youcan youcan can cut rubber An Investigation revealed the parson parson parson par par- son was an enemy alien allen and he was intern Interned d. d The German spies in the United States can be divided into six classes classed and these classes subdivided into as many more moro apiece First there Is the military spy I Iwho who obtains important military se secrets secrets secrets se- se crets of at great value to his country In this class will be found the brains I of ot the German spy system I stem for tho work Is the most difficult and danger danger- ous oils Capture means certain death With this class Is tho the political spy I I who fixes or attempts to fix persons persons persons per per- sons attached to the most Important offices in the nation thus establishing establishing establish establish- establish I ing leaks on Information Among tho operatives of th this class are business business business busi busi- ness and professional nen with large local followings also the real operatives operatives operatives opera opera- tives the men who sort out the In Intelligence intelligence in- in determine its value and regulate the further courses of action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion by other branches of ot tho the spy system ss s's system tem accordingly The second class of German spies are tho the destructionists men and women whose sole sale duty is to realize by fi fire e and destructive scientific methods those ends which the other members of ot the system are unable to attain With enemy aliens running practically undisturbed these agents have achieved a series of ot German victories by destruction of at foodstuffs and war material Included In this class are the bomb throwers dynamiters dynamiters dyna dyna- miters torches workmen who put defects In munitions they are assisting as assisting assisting as- as to manufacture men a and d women who p put t glass in foods food train wreckers and the clerk who purposely purposely purposely pur- pur pur pur- routes a train of ot munitions or foodstuffs wrongly when the utmost speed Is necessary to serve our army t I Iacross across the sea Often Orten the clerk who I I Id d does es this notifies the German spy spy sy system tem of the route and time of ot passing passing passing pas pas- sing of at the train The third class is composed of at In Industrial industrial in- in or organizers of f industrial unrest Their chief business bus bus- business business iness is to foment strikes and other disorders to assist In delaying g production pro pro-A luction to hamper methods of distri distribution distribution dis dis- tri a and d confuse and paralyze e Industries wherever f possible A hundred of these operatives can an do more afore damage than an army corps The fourth class consists of the disease spreaders Their diabolical I work already has resulted in untold damage Included in the class are tho he spreaders of germs fake doctors and tad poison poIso- users From peddling poison oison to the farmers In Kansas ansas and the distribution of germs germ of if toot mouth mouth foot disease throughout through through- out nut the Central West to the spreading spreading spread spread- ing tug of or spinal meningitis germs Is but butone butone one une small step compared to some som the he German disease carriers are tak IB ig g. g The fifth firth class Is the well known propagandist The pro-German pro pro pro- A worK worn has nas been Deen felt leu ren Undoubtedly und undoubtedly un- un d by every man woman J Jand and child in the United States Ho Hois He Heis Is a financier an organizer a dyed 1 i wool the patriot sometimes a molder of public opinion and one of of- the most cowardly and underhanded personages in the entire German spy system This man man or or woman woman- poses as a patriotic American citizen then does everything in his power to i poison the minds of the community to embarrass the United States army j I navy and administration the Red RedCross RedCross II Cross the Y Y M. M C. C A. A and every organization organization organization or or- engaged In winning the war The Is a snake hidden hidden hidden hid hid- den in the grass of at patriotism fearful fearful fearful fear fear- ful of daylight but using Its fangs freely In tho the darkness Probably every citizen has heard somewhere the story of the woman who sewed a 5 bill In a sweater she had knitted for the Red Cross and found her sweater several days later on a RedCross RedCross Red RedCross Cross worker who told her he ho had purchased it at a store whereupon she ripped the sweater open and found her 5 bill This story was walS believed by thousands many I of at whom stopped knitting for the Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross on the strength of ot it It was proved to be pure bunk |
