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Show If every man and woman in this community would read the story of "The Clackers," in Collier's of February the ninth, it would tend to check some of the wild stories which are being circulated cir-culated about this city. For example every now and then we hear some report come in from "Somwhere in France" or somewhere in the distance, that so and so told Aunt Kate that a certain soldier boy had heard that one of his company had paid the Red Cross so much for a sweater. But when you come to trace the thing down the fellow who wrote the letter or the exact facts are seldom sel-dom available, and are generally found to be the work of The Clackers. One of these cases now and again may be a true story, but in ninety-nine out of a hundred they are the work of Clackers. Our army officers are not such a cheap bunch that they would allow al-low Red Cross articles to be sold to the men. Unless we have more of the kind such as former Captain R. F. King, who would resort to almost any extreme whatsoever to raise a little coin. |