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M Man an and i Beast Suffer I By Max Cook St. St Louis Newspaperman Who Is an t the United States and Who Trapped I I I I I I I I I I i I j i I I I I I F ALL the thousands of or German Ocr Ger OF O man spies In this country undermining United States efficiency taking life UCc and destroying pro property pert none can compare to Germanys Germany's alleged ed most recent departure in the SP spy pro iao- Somo Some of the German atrocities will look slight ht in comparison on when the real truth becomes known The after results of oC this latest spy sP- campaign if It successful would have haye more mora far rea far Car and terrible terri tern ble Me effects on future generations than an any move that could he be mado made b by bomb d dynamite fire shell or oran an any other scientific weapon of ot warfare This may seem impossible It Itma ma may seem eem unreal HAS WOMANS WOMAN'S WORD But I have the tho word of Mrs Elizabeth II H. Hundley one of ot the South's best women that it is true a a woman wh who now is assisting the government to kill tho the effectiveness effective effective- ness of Germanys Germany's latest spy weapon This Is only ono one branch of ot tho the kaisers kaiser's great spreading disease arm army From the poor farmer Carmer bo boy In Kansas who died of ot a tetanus In Infection Infection infection In- In contracted from poisoned v court plaster to the colored dock laborer in New Orleans who Jes died the trail is a loncon long lonc- on one Men women and md children have fall fallen en Cattle sheep and horses havo have succumbed Grains and fruits Crolla have havo been blighted All An to help the cause of oC autocracy Germany seeks to divert ert men from manufacturing munitions or producing foodstuffs Two Tt avenues of or diversion were open death th and disease Of Ot the two disease was preferable for Cor a asick asick asick sick man would usurp the time of at several others in caring for tor him then too there were the possibilities possibilities possibilities to be realized through spreading of or the disease Itself itsel A sudden and startling In InI Increase Increase In- In crease creMO in the number of ot Illnesses and an 1 deaths from tram anthrax in the United States drew public attention attention attention atten atten- tion to this occupational disease during the closing months of ot 1915 and earl early part of or 1916 says sas bulletin No of ot tho the United States bureau burau of or labor statistics ANTHRAX INTRODUCED INTRODUCE Anthrax In man Is identical with anthrax in animals The farmer shepherd butcher or veterinarian mo may contract It directly as os may workers in the leather wool halland hair hall and aid bristle industries and the tho hornI horn an and 1 hone bone transportation businesses The German SP spy took immediate te advantage e of or if this A new form of ot otI anthrax appeared in widely separated separated sepa sepa- rated sections of ot America Cattle began bEc b the thousands Foot Foot- mouth and-mouth disease was everywhere everywhere every every- where Thousands of or exposed animals were slaughtered and tho the carcasses destroyed Shipments of livestock were stopped by federal federal fed ted eral order Authority on German Spy Activities in inthe inthe inthe the Master Spy Graves B By a to single stroke a few Cew men who knew exactly what the they were doln doing wiped out a lar large e part of ot our meat re reserve er e and anel placed us at atthe atthe th the morn of the meatless lIB tiny day Local epidemics were common about this time in various sections of the tho countr country In Chicago o It was Infantile paralysis In Milwaukee the measles lel and diphtheria Several Soy Sev eral Southern cities 4 r reported ty ty- ty Smallpox and scarlet fever hit lilt the be homes hoins and anti purse of or th the workIng working work- work In Ing man a to terrific blow Pellagra and poison polson became common common com com- mon among the mountaineers of or Tennessee and ond Kentucky Kentuck COTTON ATTACKED One of the greatest military as assets assets assets as- as sets of America was tho cotton attacked attack next Cotton the great staple of ot the tile South was absolutely nece necessary for Cor tho the production production tion of or clothing tents and equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment for tor the army anny banda es for forthe forthe forthe the Red fled Cross anti and as a chemical base bae for tor explosives es Enter here hero tho the Germans German's silent ally the ally thc the boll weevil The boll bon weevil wee is a a. small gray Jray worm arm that attacks the buds of ot tho the young oun cotton plant and prevents I maturity nl ty This pest which first appeared in the United States about 1893 It easily transported with seed It Ital al also o migrates been known to advance ance as much as sixty miles in a season 4 A few spies of or the kaiser traveled traveled trav tray from place to place and diffused diffused dif dif- fused the warm arm that produces the weevil So one fine tine morning the planters plant plant- I ers era of the South found Cound that while they had been expecting an exceptional exceptional crop the increased acreage planted had Imd been so 1 seriously damaged damaged damaged dam dam- aged that there was In reality a scarcity of tho the staple and ands as s a result cotton prices went up with amazing rapidity Tho annual loss previous pre to 1907 from his source ha had 1 been estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated at ot Tho The loss for tor 1916 1917 was conservatively placed at GERMANY THOROUGH Germany German Is thorough In various parts of or the country museums of ot anatomy were es established established established es- es b by Germans Charts and antI wax torsos were used to make victims vie vic tims Urns believe c the they were diseased Treatments were given JI and perfectly per per- healthy health patients arc are said to hn have 0 been Infected These museums were operated in Peoria Ill Gar Gary Ind md South Bend Ind md New Orleans South Chicago and Shreveport among other places Ignorant foreigners farmer fanner boys bors who came carne to town for tor a 0 do day or two to see the sights sl and many elt city boys were inveigled In Into these thelle places How man many were Infected could novel never bo be determined Who ho can say how many thousands thou thou- sands their lives lI ruined lined havo have been loft left In the wako wake of ot the Jubilant jubilant lant t German disease nse army |