The Creel gang worked hard at convincing children to spread the message of war. The “Anti-Yellow Dog League” was a younger version of the American Protective League and had about 1,000 nationwide branches emanating from public schools. It was a vigilante group made up of schoolboys above age 10 who searched out “disloyalty.” They “barked” when a “disloyal yellow dog” was suspected and their “Dog Hunts” targeted fellow students with German names or heritage.

As if Sunday newspapers were not enough, even church Sunday schools got in the act. While mom and dad were hearing sermons justifying war, killing. hate and revenge, the kiddies were downstairs in church basements with little “beat-up the hun” coloring books.

Over 100 anti-Kaiser songs were produced by Tin Pan Alley, such as: ‘We Are Out for the Scalp of Mister Kaiser,’ ‘We Want the Kaiser’s Helmet Now,’ and ‘We Will Make the Kaiser Wiser,’ ‘We’re Going to Hang the Kaiser on the Linden Tree,’ ‘We’re Going to Whip the Kaiser,’ ‘The Crazy Kaiser,’ ‘I’d Like to See the Kaiser with a Lily in His Hand,’ ‘We’ll Give the Stars and Stripes to the Kaiser,’ ‘If I Only Had My Razor Under the Kaiser’s Chin,’ ‘Shoot the Kaiser’ and ‘The Kaiser is a Devil.’ Even after the war ended, hate songs continued: ‘Hang the Kaiser to the Sour Apple Tree,’ ‘We’ve Turned His Moustache Down,’ ‘We Sure Got the Kaiser, We Did, and The Kaiser Now is Wiser’ came out after the armistice.

Hate was even added to baby’s daily diet with packaging carrying a pro-war message. The propagandists were shameless when it came to exploiting the fears and emotions of even the youngest children. They were even asked to donate their Tooth Fairy funds. The war would not be forgotten soon by children of the era. National Thrift Director, Dr. J. Stanley Brown saw to it later that fifteen million disengaged hand grenade piggy banks were distributed to children in 1919 as thanks for their “loyal service in war time.”