Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-05-04 | Page 7 | Spies

Spies By Herbert Kaufman S SPIES SPIES PIES are picked men and cunningly chosen women No country selects inferior minds to obtain enemy information Secret service takes first choice of national intelligence Mere patriotism mere blackguardism are are not sufficient qualifications for the hazardous hazardous hazardous haz haz- enterprises to be executed in the household of the foe Every spy realizes the significance of his mission mission accepts accepts it with full knowledge of consequences engages consequences engages to inflict the meanest meanest mean mean- est the deadliest hurts in contempt of pity humanity decency and Penalty A single successful spy is a greater menace than a thousand soldiers soldiers can can achieve more harm than a battleship battleship is is death roaming roaming roaming roam roam- ing at large large large-a a human bomb lurking in the crowds crowds crowds-a a two-legged two submarine preying upon hospitality and credence Our allies whose fortunes are inextricably involved with our own whose experience bleeds from tardy measures against the incredibly efficient warn warn us to give no benefit of doubt to any suspect Even a democracy must be despotically severe evere with those who threaten its safety Far better that a few suspicious aliens be interned on circumstantial evidence than one guilty sneak be liber Tiber liberated liberated by technicality of the law With multitudes of unassimilated Germans and Hun Austro-Hun- arians in ill our very shipyards foundries and plants with heaven knows how low many fascinating and keen women sent in for that purpose socially established in vital centers- centers common sense communal welfare and sound military practice especially commit this government to the firing squad for intending a assassins It It is a maudlin sentimentality that wastes mercy on the pitiless Copyright 1918 by Herbert Kaufman Great Britain and all other rights reserved I