A WARMING
American Defense Society Calls on
Sandhills to Watch Enemies
Vig-llnc Committee to Catalogue
A.H Doubtful Character.
Frank Page of Aberdeen, today made
public a request received from Richard
M. Hurd, Chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the American Defense So
ciety, urging citizens here to organize a
local vigilance corps, for the purpose of
aiding the Government in putting an
end to German propaganda and enemy
activity -which has been responsible for
ikes, ammunition plant explosions, sa
botage, food scares and other attempts-t-
damage the morale of the American
people.
' ' Recent events in this country make it
plain that the German method of propa
ganda which has been so effective in
Russia and Italy is now being attempted
in this country with an alarming degree
of success, " according to the appeal to
Americans now being issued by the
American Defense Society. "German
propaganda has long been supplied to
our troops in the national encampments.
The ship-building program is being in
terfered with by German-inspired strikes.
Germans are directing the hoarding of
food supplies to an extent that panics
have already been prevalent in the lead-.
iiig cities. Newspapers are giving daily
reports of fires in ammunition plants
and grain depots and the country is now
on the verge of an even greater calam
ity in the shape of a railroad strike of
unprecedented extent which threatens to
cripple our national industry."
The far-reaching need of the local Vig
ilance Corps can readily be seen when
it is known that in this country alone
there are today several million alien
enemies representing Germany, Austria,
Bulgaria, Turkey and other countries
sympathetic or allied with the Prussian
autocracy. Almost without exception
these enemies are free to go about as
they see fit, and while the Government
lias done much toward tightening the
censorship of mails and cables, never
theless there are numberless channels by
"which these enemies are in touch with
the directing genius of German propa
ganda in Berlin.
If Americans mean to stand by the
men at the front, whose lives are already
eing sacrificed, and to stand by their
Government, the opportunity is offered
hi the additional service they can give
to this work of the American Defense
Society.
The plan of organization undertaken
h' the Society and recommended to loyal
Americans provides for the enrollment
pf a small American Vigilance Corps in
evy city and town which shall classify
all residents under the following terms:
1- Loyal. ,
Disloyal.
3- Doubtful. '
4. Unknown.
following the general classification of
citizens the Committee is urged to make
further designation of the following list :
1. Alien enemy.
2. Pro-German.
3. Anti-Government.
In the letter of instructions to branch
organizations the Executive Committee
of the American Defense Society gives
the following directions:
"At the earliest possible moment,
when you have made your classification
of alien enemies, pro-Germans, and those
opposed to the Government in this war,
send this list to the Police Department,
the local representative of .the Depart
ment of Justice and to whatever repre
sentatives of the army or navy intelli
gence bureaus there are in your com
munity. Do not let this matter rest,
however, with this first classification of
the enemies. Too much stress cannot
be put on the importance of having
your own Vigilance Corps take steps to
watch alien enemies, pro-Germans and
those opposed to the Government. Only
by such co-operation will you be able
to give effective aid to the Government.
Take every means you can to let the
pople of your city know the names of
our enemies"
Unofficial announcement has already
been made at Washington that the Gov
ernment is about to register the alien
enemies in America. Your Committee
already having acted along such lines,
will naturally be in a position greatly to
aid the Government Census when such a
census is taken. No doubt many at
temps will be nude to evade the official
Government Census and information on
the enemies in your community, will
therefore be of greatest value. ' '
' ' You are enjoined to watch the speech,
associations and activities of every man
whom you may suspect of disloyalty and
to send in the immediate report. For
further information and instructions re
garding the work of the Vigilance Corps
of the American Defense Society ad
dress National Headquarters, 44 East
23rd Street, New York City.
IBauaoliel Open
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Magoon have come
in from Pittsburg and their Winter Home
Bausoliel has become the scene of their
usual Holiday hospitality. By naming
their place Bausoliel they have brought
with them to the Sandhills the memories
and traditions of the Great Lake Country
where they have spent the summer
months for years. This is the old Indian
name of an island in Georgian Bay, long
since given as a haven of retreat to the
old Warriors by the United States. It
means The Beautiful Sun, and is quite
as appropriate for the Heart of the
South, as for the famous fishing ground.
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advice and personal assistance to every
one desiring to make out their tax abstracts.
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