Spies and Lies 



German agents are everywhere, eager to gather scraps of news 

 about our men, our ships, our munitions. It is still possible to get such 

 information through to German}^, where thousands of these fragments 

 — often individually harmless — are patlentl}' pieced together into a 

 whole which spells death to American soldiers and danger to American 

 homes. 



But while the enemy is most industrious In trj'ing to collect infor- 

 mation, and his sj'stems elaborate, he is not superhuman — indeed, he is 

 often very stupid, and w^ould fail to get what he wants were it not 

 deliberately handed to him by the carelessness of loyal Americans. 



9 tales certain to disturb American patriots 

 and to bring anxiety and grief to American 

 parents. 



And do not wait until you catch some 

 one putting a bomb under a factory. 

 Report tlie man who spreads pessimistic 

 stories, divulges — or seeks — confidential 

 military information, cries for peace, or 

 belittles our efforts to win the war. 



Send tlie_ names of si:ch persons, even 

 if they are in uniform, to the Department 

 of Justice, Washington. Give all the 

 details you can, with names of witnesses 

 if possible — show the Ilun that we can 

 beat him at his own game of collecting 

 scattered information and putting it to 

 work. The fact that you made the report 

 will not become public. 



You are in contact with the enemy 

 today, just as truly as if you faced him 

 across No Man's Land. In vour hands 

 .- , , , , ^'■^ ^^^° powerful weapons with which to 



Cross, _ cruelties, neglect and wholesale ^ met him — discretion and vigilance Use 

 executions in our camps, drunkenness and " them. 



COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION 



strangers, any news of troop and 

 transport movements, of bits of 

 gossip as to our military prepara- 

 tions, which come into your pos- 

 session. 



Do not permit your friends in 

 service to tell yon — or v^rite you 

 — "inside" facts about where they 

 are, what they are doing and 

 seeing. 



Do not become a tool of the 

 Hun by passing on the malicious, 

 disheartening rumors which he so 

 eagerly sows. Remember he asks 

 no better service than to have you 

 spread his lies of disasters to our soldiers 

 and sailors, gross scandals in the Red 



8 JACKSON PLACE. WASHINGTON. D. C. 



Conlribuled 



Division rf 



through 



Ad7fcrtisin2 



George Creel, Chairman 

 The Secretary of Stale 

 The Secretary of IVar 

 Tlie Secretary of the Navy 

 UniledStales Gov't Comm . 

 on Public Information 



This sl^ace contributed for the IFimiing of the War by 



THE A. I. EOOT COMPANY, MEDINA, QHIO. 



