unt for fear that the nearer they got to the
land for which they had been fighting, the more discount there would be
on the pay checks with which their Quartermaster had paid them their
pittances. Soldiers of the second detachment came on home with Colonel
Stewart to Camp Custer and were obliged (most of them) to take their
little $3.82 per pound sterling of the British pound sterling paid them
by Quartermaster Major Ely in North Russia, at $4.76-1/4. Later, through
the efforts of the late Congressman Nichols, many of those soldiers were
reimbursed. Of course complete restitution would have been made by the
war department if all the soldiers had sent their claims in. Hundreds of
American veterans of the North Russian campaign lost ten to twenty per
cent of their pay check's hard earned value.

XXIX

PROPAGANDA AND PROPAGANDA AND--

Propaganda Two-Edged Tool--From Crusaders To Carping Cynics--Be Warned--
Afraid To Tell The Truth--Startling Stories Of Bolo Atrocities
Published--Distortion Disgusts Brave Men--Wrong To Play On Race
Prejudices--Our Own Government Missed Main Chance--Doughboy Beset By
Active Enemy In Front And Plagued By Active Propaganda Of Hybrid
Varieties--Sample Of Bolshevik Propaganda Used On Americans--Yanks
Punched Holes In Red Propaganda--Propaganda To Doughboy Connotes Lies
And Distortion And Concealment Of Truth.

"Over there, over there, the Yanks are coming," sang the soldiers in
training camp as they changed from recruits into fighting units of the
85th Division at Battle Creek. And the morale of the 339th was
evidenced, some thought, by the fervor with which the officers and men
roared out their hate chorus, "Keep your head down, you dirty Hun. If
you want to see your father in your Fatherland, Keep your head down, you
dirty Hun." Maybe so, maybe not. Maybe morale is made of finer stuff
than hate and bombast. Maybe idealism does enter into it. Of course
there are reactionary periods in the history of a people when
selfishness and narrowness and bigotry combine to cry down the
expression of its idealism. Not in 1918.

No secret was made of the fact that the Americans went into the war with
a fervor born of an aroused feeling of world-responsibility. We must do
our part to save Christian civilization from the mad nationalism of the
German people led by their diabolic Hohenzollern reigning family and war
bureaucracy. Too much kultur would ruin the world. Germany must be
whipped. We tingle