Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-02-07
TIMES EDITOR
GIVES HIS VIEWS
ON COMP LS|O!
Lord NorthcIiffe Tells Asso-
ciated Press Representa-
tive What He Thinks About
Enforced Service Movement


correspondent at his office ON Printing
House SQUARE, ana asked about the
'Northcliffe press which has been
talked about SO much lately. Hardly a
day passes in parliament that some
noble lord or commoner--an often
several of them at the same time
does not rise 20 state that his oppcsi-
ton TO the military compulsion SER
iNice bill was not SO much against the
bill itself but because the "NorthCliffe
press had draguuncd the government
into adopting the measure When Sir
John Simon resigned from the Asuuith
ministry he announced that the pres
sure of the "Northcliffo press on the
government had good deal to do
with his action. So that it has come
to be accepted of late that Il there Is
a cabinet crisis. or parliamentary
division, or the prospect of general
election, quite an element viii declare
that the "Northcliffc press has
brought it about. On the other hand
the "Northcliffe press has It's own
party in both houses.
/ II was $500 in the afternoon when
Lord Northcliffe was seen at his Of
flee. This Is the busy hour at the
London Times when the editorials and
leaders begin to take form for the
presses which begin to thrOh towards
midnight He was not sitting at a
desk in the conventional pose Of man
tof affairs, but was spread out in a
great easy chair with a big bunch of
proofs in his hands a department edi-
tor bending over him, and another ed
itor waiting to take his turn
Gn..n.,a nrnnce
rs the submarine article ready for
tomorrow" he asked the editor
Yes. chief. all ready. was the an
swer
"And this article" he said, glancing
through the proofs. has Ncols made
that change"
yes, chief, he has made the
change.
"But it is not clear persisted Lord
Northclffe. 1T should be made per
fcctly clear that it was the govern
mont. yes the foreign office that said
this thing. Here let me fix It,"
And taking his pencil he wrote in
ON the edge of the proof. "as stated BY
the foreign office.
Then the other editor took his turn,
with leaders, reports from Germany
and Washington, the situation at Sa-
loniki, and many others, all of which
received the quick survey of the chief.
Here was the owner and proprietor of
the London Times the London Daily
Mail, the Sunday Dispatch. the Over
seas Mail. the London Evening News,
Answers, the Manchester Mail ana
countless other cdicals-conipris-
ing the so-called "Northcliffe press,
the greatest assemblage OF newspaper
ownership ever seen in England. head
ed by the 'Thunderer." known as the
"Englishmans Bible and the tradi-
'tional exponent Of British policy-oc-
|cupying himself not alone with the
management and larger policies OF
this organization, but with the edto-
rial details and even with the text and
phraseology Of leading articles. His
two advisers. Geoffrey Robinson of the
Times and Thomas NARROW of the Dali
,ly Mail. have full authority, freely or
frequently exercised to censor their
chiefs work.
Good Judge OF Men.
Lord Northcliffe is very quick in his
estimate of men and things. When
reference was made to Lore y. who
has been much in the public eye of
late, he said
Yes, he Is Il good advertiser
Then when reference was made to
Lord Y. who is supposed to be direct
ing a very large branch of the gov
eminent he said
why, he is finished.
Finished, how so. he is directing a
department
- H. ttsIrr Ia.
department. Lloyd George is looking
after ammunitions, and Lord \ is fin
ished; yes found out lie Is past
event
The talk now turned to the compul-
sorry military service bill which the
government has Just put through par
the work of the "Northclffe press"
why, it was as plain as day" said
the embodiment Of the Northcliffe
press. Here liz a row of houses he
went on, pointing to a row Of imagi-
nary houses on the paper pad before
him. Now in this first house lives a
young married man who wants to
serve his country. feeling that his
countrys peril is his own. SO he gives
up his job and enists. Right next
dPbif IN Atui ibhntt iiNNo AtVNAA'i
young fellow who is his mothers darl-
ing and who doesn't want him to ex-
pose himself to danger. So he does
not enlist, but stays at home-yes, and
gets the other fellows JOB Now those
very rows Of houses are in every
street in every city, town and village
in the country. That is an actual con-
crete example of the situation which
confronted US And so | invented the
phrase, Single men first, and that
carried Ii. II has been q long strug-
gle: we've been at it many months it
went cslowIy 1T first but gathered
force as 1t went along, until 1t became
overwhelming and practically univer-
sal. and single men first carried it
through, and It's ended. yes ended
we will have our army, IN army equal
to our needs, with the country behind
it. and were just beginning the war.
Lessons OF Civil War.
Lord Northeiffe speaks calmly.
without demonstration. but with posi-
tiveness and with ideas which crowd
each other to find expression.
your American civil war gave US
some lessons on how an army had to
DE raised in a great emergency" he
went on What did Lincoln do when
ne needed men. he called for them.
issued proclamation calling them To
the service of the federal government
and putting ii up TO the governors to
furnish them-first 100000 men, thea
100000 men, then 500 900 men. and
50 on. And they had TO be furnished;
the men had 10 enlist or find substi-
iutes. there were drafts aud riots, as
there always are when slackers are
made to do their duty to their coun
Try. And you got your army. not
VOlunteer army except in nominal