TAR AND FEATHERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1918, Page 6

TAR AND FEATHERS.

FASHION FOR PRO-HUN WOMEN. AMERICANS DEAL WITH DISLOYALTY. • New York, April 18. Just now tarring and feathering seems the most popular outdbor sport, and is. indulged in freely over the country. Dr, Cole, superintendent of a school in Colorado, after a pro-German talk in the school, was rigged out in a wonderful feather regalia, and then given a few hours to leave the town or find himself on the business end of one of Gerard's 500,000 lamp posts. Women are not exempt from being numbered with the feathered tribe if their; tongues wag on the wrong side of their mouths. A party of sixty people, including a score of women, visited Mrs. Stafford at her home. The male members of the party bound the husband, and, taking the wife outside, gave her the handsome costume they had brought for her. Members of the I.W.W. are frequent recipients of the soothing embrocation. Trouble is in store for seditious people. "She Attorney-General has ruled that any citizen may arre9t anyone making disloyal remarks. Within three hours of uttering sedition in the hearing, of a citizen, a pro-Gorman was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. It will mean a great saving of tar and feathers and a good deal of extra work for the magistrates. In the early hours of Sunday morning, when all virtuous people were snoring the sleep of the just, the patrol waggons made their appearance at the innumerable Chop Suey restaurants along the great White .Way, and surprised 1500 people with their, unwelcome visit. Everyone able to give a good account of himself or herself was allowed to pass out, but Uncle's Sam's waggons returned filled to the brim. Uncle Sam is suspicious of a certain type of women who are friendly with his soldiers and sailors, and is not going to permit any espionage on their part. A great number of New lork women are to be interned as ali-n cnem.es. The Department of Justice had discovered evidence of great and dangerous activity on the part of women%n ?, ( ' J '°t Germany, and as soon as ident WUson signs a Bill for the internment oi such women thev will be arrested and sent to internment camps