| Show falsehoods about the red cross hurt america and help enemy L by stuart H peny I 1 Is it not suspicious the number of false reports unfounded rumors misunderstandings and falsehoods that spring up with regard to the red bed cross it kee keeps Ps the officers anad an d workers busy denying them and explaining them away there was a story that enormous sums of money were to be given away to foreign countries 11 and ild that a great marble palace was to be erected in washington both equally f false alse some start from a misunderstanding or ar are e mere distortions of harmless facts some are known to have started from disloyal sources with the deliberate purpose of crip crippling plin g the work of the red bed cross the malicious so sort it will be dealt with in due time in tle the proper way it will not be long before it will be unsafe for any disloyal person to start fauch ciuch a story or pass it along but in the meantime the red bed cross members me in the themselves melves can d do oh a great deal toward stopping all false reports when you hear a harmful rumor about the red bed cross remember 1 it is a lie there is noth nothing g wrong about the red bed gross cross it is admirably organized efficiently managed it is doing exactly what is best and wisest in the light of the most mosi far reaching experience athas it has been tree fred from fiam all 11 serious beriou s blunders incompetency P elency unfairness or scandal 2 it is your duty to stop it it is not enough to keep still speak out in instantly y telling your auditors that the rumor is false showing them why it must be so and warning them nat to play the enema game by spreading it 3 report the matter at once to tc hed bed dross cross headquarters if the will at once be taken to story was an innocent misunderstanding steps step s correct it atit if it bears dar earmarks marks of malice it will be dealt w with ith in another way 1 if it hurts the red bed cross it hurts america and helps germany |
