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Show WILD HUMORS. The circulating of extravagant rumors ru-mors and w ild tales of victory is as harmful to the interests of this country coun-try in the present struggle as the spreading of adverse reports. Recently Re-cently the report was flashed from one end of the country to the other of a great allied victory on the western wes-tern front. In many parts of the country people went fairly wild with joy, only to be cast into corresponding correspond-ing depths of dejection on learning that the report was unfounded. Our people should give ear to no reports that do not come from a reliable re-liable source. Telegraphic news in the papers, from reputable news agencies, can be relied upon as being oireit, or approximately so. The metropolitan dailies as a rule have reliable special correspondents on the front, and their reports also can be received as truth. But reports circulating from mouth to ino.uth frequently fre-quently start from nothing but grow with the telling. In justice to the news agencies and newspapers of the country it should be said that none of these fake reports re-ports have originated or been circulated circu-lated by them. Such reports in most cases, if they could be traced to their original source, would be found to have a sinister origin enemy propaganda, propa-ganda, with a view to disturbing the peace of the country and creating excitement ex-citement and unrest. We should keep cool and believe nothing that is not fully vouched fw, trust in our government and our armies, and put our every energy into OUR part in the winning of the war. |