The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-19
Camp Funston Weekly From
Press of State Journal.
Plan Found Ready Support OF
Many Publishers.
GIVE BOYS ALL CAMP NEWS
Distribution To Be Made Thru
CantOnment Y. Nj. c. A.
1000 Copies Weekly Free te
Each Military Camp.
fBv the Associated Prcss)

Washington, Sept l9.-Plans for
publication of soldiers weekly news
paper in every national army and ma
tional guard camp beginning with the
week of September so, under the
auspices of the national war work
council of the Y NJ c. A. were an
nounced here today by John Stewart
Bryan, publisher of the Richmond
News-Leader, who arranged the de-
tails of the cooperation among many
other publishers which make the work
possible. Among contributors will be
Colonel Roosevelt and many of the
best known newspaper workers and
cartoonists. President Wilson has en-
dorsed the plan, the general manage
ment of the paper will be under the
personal direction of Mr.. Bryan and
the cooperating publishers will COM
pose an advisory board The plans
grew out of a conference in Washing
ton last July at which Mr.. Bryan was
assigned by the war work council to
visit all camps in the south before 60
ing to Europe.
Editors Plan Success.
'It seemed hardly probable at first
that so large an undertaking could be
carried OUT said Mr.. Bryan today.
'and it probably would not have been
but for the assistance of H c. Adler
of the Chattanooga Times, who sug-
gested that if the paper carried no ad-
no reasons why local publishers would
not cooperate to the fullest measure
THE plan was thereupon worked
out by which the Y. NJ. c. A. could
furnish 1000 papers to each of the
cantonments. Four of these pages to
be supplied from the New York
office to the cooperating publishers
and the other four pages of camp
news to be set up and all the press
work done by the local newspapers
1fi n isf m ad
| thru the Y. M. c. A. headquarters at
| the various camps.
---.As -suUIrzsas- Mr. Adler made this
suggestion and offered to do it for the
II was satisfied that the whole under
taking would be a success.
The next one to accept this propo-
sition was the birmingham News.
came in and opened the way for the
rest of the country.
Mr.. MacLcnnan Co-operates.
when 1 appealed to the central
| west, Frank p. MacLennan of the
Topeka State Journal undertook the
work for Fort Riley. Camp Funston;
Gardiner Cowles of the Des MoineS
Register, for Camp Dodge; Victor +.
Lawson of the Chicago Daily News
will give his personal attention to the
paper for Camp Grant. at Rockford,
Ills; Col Charles S. Diehl, of the San
/
Houston; E. K. Gaylord of the Okla
homa City. Oklahoman will cover the
camp at Fort Sill.
1.-The fact that a man has put on a
uniform does not make him any less
human. He needs and will respond
1 to the same influences that reached
him in his civilian life, and the pub
( fishers of this country have been
| quick to perceive and ready to help
/ in giving to the men in the camps the
4 vital touch in the great movement in
which America has now embarked"
/ The people and the leaders," said
/ Mr.. Bryan, know that the speed with
which war will be won is in direct
ratio to the intensity and exaltation
of the spirit of the men who do the
fighting and this national paper print
] ed under the auspices of the war work
/ council of the Y. NJ. c. A thru the
/ cooperation and assistance of the
publishers will prove a powerful and
effective means for the creation and
development and focus of that spirit %