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Show DEFENSE SOCIETY APPOINTS LOCAL REPRESLNEATIVE Increased Activity of German Agents Makes Haste Necessary in Stamping Stamp-ing Out the Evil. Miss Hilda Mad-sen Mad-sen Tells How Local Citizens Can Help. The American Defense society, in widening the scope of its activities throughout the nation has appointed Miss Hilda' Madsen as a member of the Woman's National Committee, to ie;ieseut this district. In speaking of the society's aims and the contemplated campaign in this city, Miss Madsen, in her first communication as the society's representative, rep-resentative, brings home with decided decid-ed force the need for immediate action. ac-tion. ' "German agents in our midst are not a fjgment of the imagination but a very real danger," states Miss Madsen. Mad-sen. "In this war, if you cannot go to the lront you will want to serve at home, especially now that our ow;n losses are beginning to be felt, and we are at last actually realizing the war. Germany is mobilized to the last man and woman, and if America Amer-ica is to win this war, we must alsc mobil.ze those at home every mai and woman. Service at home doe; not necessarily mean that you must gie up your family obligations 01 the Lime necessary for earning youi livelihood. Such service can anc should be given in' your spare time. Immediate Action Necessary. "The first thing you can do is to concern con-cern yourself with the desperate activities ac-tivities of the German Empire in this country. Some of these activities are political; others are industrial attempts at-tempts at dynamiting our war plants and burning buildings. Still others are in the realm of propaganda spreading propaganda under the guise of peace talk. "If you are an American citizen, ii you believe in the ideal of life, liberty, liber-ty, and the pursuit of happiness foi which our forefathers gave their lives in the Revolution, you can aid American patriotism by enrolling at once in an organization like the American Defense Society. "The American Defense Society is a national propaganda society, recently re-cently characterized by the New York Sun as "the most outspoken opponent oppon-ent of German propaganda in this country." It is engaged in waging relentless, warfare against enemy activities ac-tivities at home. "We propose to hold a series of meetings to gain members, in the near future, and among other things we hope to bring to this city the greatest patriotic photoplay which has ever been produced, as a means of adding to the national fund for the prosecution of enemy activities, and the spreading of a pro-American propaganda." Some of the prominent women with whom Miss Madsen will be associated as-sociated in her new work are Mrs. J. W. Harriman, Mrs. N. L. Beekman, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Mrs. Robert Lansing, Mrs. Charles S. Whitman, and other members of the Woman's National Committee, which has been appointed to assiBt the American Defense Society in the important im-portant work which it is doing. |