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Said he, according to reports by his fellow diners: "A bit of propaganda may often grow far beyond its original purpose and get completely out of control. For example, take the story to the effect that during the War Germany boiled down the bodies of her dead soldiers to utilize the resultant fat for fertilizer. That story was released and grew as follows...
...reporter bit his fingernails. He was wondering whether he would best serve his paper by following the others into Manager Gatti's office or by pursuing the little man in the automobile?a little man who, chief stockholder, President, guarantor and presiding intelligence, knows perhaps more than anyone else about the Metropolitan Opera Company and its new season...
...remark the present success of the League in silencing the war threats and rifles of the Greeks and Bulgars. In the days before the League was thought of, the Balkan states were always the sore spot of Europe. Not only delighting in the tinsel of melodrama, they liked a bit of the shooting and sword play which goes with the tinsel. So every few months a new trouble would arise. And the great states would grin and use these tiny strifes for their own advantage. Now the League does the grinning, but the smile is on the other side...
...Just before sending them on the field, the coach should inflame every players anger blood-lust by hurling at him some choice bit of propaganda on the crimes and atrocities against society committed by individual members of the opposing team...
...every bit of research every signing of contract with coaches every advanced secret practice, every current of the Pigskin melon, be performed is electric light. Too much daylight not good for the game for business football...