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New-York tribune., 1917-12-23

Of his pro-wsr policy. For his sntar-
onlsm to Scheidemann, Minister had to
quit the "Bergische Arbsiterstimme,
and became managing editor OF the
"Neiderrheinische Arbeiterzeitung," OF
Duisburg, but some months later was
discharged by the Social Democratic
National Executive Committee, con-
uolled By Scheidemann.
Then Minister went TO Berlin, where
he took up the peace propagands after
DR.. Karl Liebkneeht had been ar
rested. Liebknect Is serving q prison
term Of fifty-four months for his open
stand against the Xaiser's war policy.
In the early part of 1917 a prominent
Swiss Socialist sent TO this country q
letter to the effect that Minister had
suddenly disappeared, and was be-
lieved to have been shot. But this as
sumption was not true. A few weeks
ance Of friends, had succeeded In eysd-
ing the German police and crossing the
Dutch frontier, came TO Amsterdam
where he published "Der Kampf." In
Amsterdam he was the centre of the
radical elements who had fled from
Germany. Thanks to his many under
ground connections" which enaoiea ADJ "a
him to get first hand information from
and about Germany, he was also In a
position TO help many German de-
serters TO get across the Dutch from
tier.
Therefore, the fear Of his wife that
he was kidnapped seems TO be justihed,
on account of the German government
utter unscrupulousness.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Great Periodicals
Give Aid and Space

And there is still a vast difference
between the character Of the publicity
attained by the Federal administra-
tions and that purchased by industrial
or non-national enterprises. The maga-
zines, newspapers, motion picture the
atres and other vehicles OF publicity
give their space to the governments and
lend themselves to the propaganda
with great good will.
If Chairman Creel Of the public in
formation committee, Ben S. Allen of
the food administration, Messrs. Noyes
and Sartwell Of the fuel administra-
ton, or Captain Price Of the Treasury
Department had to pay for the space
they have used in the press for gov
ernment propaganda, their appropria-
tions would have to run up into the
tens of millions.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
News Grows
And Is Helped

So much for organized, designed,
government propaganda. At the same
time there is the still more vast guam
tty Of news" matter sent out from
Washington. Washington date line
on news matter or review matter has
always had magic influence, as nee
essarily being authoritative If dis
patched from Washington instead OF
BinghGmpton. But to-day Washington
news mas taken on a super-impoFtance,
and the relays of wire services have
multiplied. Newspaper representatives
taye increased.
But the supply of important news
and administrative information Is in
exhaustiDlo. Professional publicity
was never more active, even If under
restraints, and designed and promoted
government publicity serves merely as
a directing influence, stimulating at
once the news-vendors and the publi-
cations TO organized activity.
The government, perhaps, should
place its hallmark upon its special
product, so that no evil design may
subtly be promoted in the public
prints under the guise of public opin-
ION. The government propaganda is
not rightly public opinion. 1t should
merely seek to inform public opinion,
not masquerade as public opinion.
Such are the musings Of observers in
Washington
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Demand for Labels
On Official News

Presently, the magazines, monthly
and weekly, and the newspapers, week
~ and daily, are TO blossom into an
eloquent fuel conservation campaign,
as they have already bloomed in a
food conservation campaign. Not a
few Of the points Of view and of the
assertions and theories are strictly
government made. Much Of this pub
licity is INSPIRED"
There should be no doubt left by the
government, as 1t is its special prod
uct, when its publicity product is spe-
cial, in the belief Of the more critical
observers, for propaganda may become
tyranny If il is merely secret and in
spired, instead Of frank and honest
government-markea information or ap-
peal But il is all so new that the
work has not yet developed its own
fundamental principles.
Aside from this speculation on the
present character of government
propaganda IN the United States, and
on the ultimate principles which IL
may follow, one can enthuse over the
general results Of the thrift cam
paign. For the Liberty Loan campaign,
tho save food campaign and the save
coal campaigns are essentially advent
ures In thrift and there are those
who will forgive blunders and extrava-
gances and assumptions Of authority
on the part Of the Washington bureaus
because Of the rich after-the-war re-
turns from the substitution OF the
thrift habit for the great American
waste habit.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Radicalism Run Wild
By D. M. HERMALlN

and their wives had 20 bless num-
Der Of candles every Friday. evening.
For this privilege they had 70 pay
the gbyernment. The tax collectors
paid one lump sum. and they were az
liberty to impose any tax they pleased
on Jewish meat and candles.
Jews In Russia we're required 20 pre-,
sent every year certain NUMBER OF
youths for the army. The Jewish rep
resentatives, appointed by the govern
ment, attended to this end. They cnose
whomsoeyer they pleased.
The Jews were permitted 10 have any
number Of rabbis, but they were com
PEELED TO have all their religious docu-
ments signed by a rabbi appointed py
the government. sci,
Almost three-quarters OF the fld-
dish literature issued in Russia IN
those days is replate with portrayais
of those types Of Jewish government
officials. They were represented as the
source Of all evil. Incidentally the
authors described the relentless SUI
ferings OF tho poor and oppressed IN
.he most narrowing manner, due 10 per-
secution perpetuated against them by
the rich Jews.
Oppression, graft and corruption OF
all kinds were the result. The Jewish
masses suffered so keenly that they
looked upon their tax collectors and
government rabbis as their inyeterate
enemies.
Although the Russian Jews mani.
tested their intense hatred toward
Russian autocracy, they hated, If pos,
sible, even more, Jews who represented
that sort of government. The methods
employed against the Jews in Russia
were more or less copied by the Ru,,
manian government and were followed
even in Galicia. The wealthy Jew was
the one whom autocracy chose as It's
representative. IL was the wealthy Jew
who thus became the oppressor OF the
poor.
A longing arose in the Jewish heart
for the time when he would be lib
Grated both from Russian tyranny End
the rich Jew.
The poor, down-trodden and III
treated Jew could not do much more
than hate and despise all those who
treated him as an outeast, a pariah.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23

ity and freedom which was secured for
him by those who had fought and died
for Americas institutions.
Their intentions were noble ones, but
the execution was bungled up. The man
az the head Of 1t had neither the abil-
ity nor the knowledge to bring about
the desired effect. His subordinstss
were, strange 20 say, men Of ths very
same school which he was intended 70
fight. The paper was failure and died
an ignominious death.
Jewish Socialism triumphed, and did
not hesitate 70 proclaim this triumph
in unmistakable terms. II announced
that the bourgeois" Jews, their hire
lings, their rsbbis and all dark forces"
had combined 20 crush the only true
teaching -socialism-but the poor were
true TO their ideals and seorned their
advances.
Socialism became the rage in the
Jewish "Gass' and all other papers be-
gan to decline. They were discredited
and repudiated.
Instead Of lighting the Forward"
instead of proving it's fallacy, all OF
them began 20 follow in its footsteps.
II strike broke out there were no two
sides 10 the story. The manufacturers,
the rich, were always wrong. All po-
litical parties represented capital,
doodle, graft and robbery. The Socisl-
ist party alone was the right one.
Abraham Cahan understood his read
ers very well. He knew that in the
Old World the bonds of mstrimony
were too stringent and the borders OF
morality too strict. He thus began,
under the guise Of liberty, TO preach
lax of morality. lie selected the most
loathsome novels OF Russian and French
writers and even improved" upon
them and dished them up for his read
ers as the only praiseworthy modern
literature. The unsophisticated, whose
pent-up morality sought some relief,
took to his kind OF reading matter with
great gusto. The rest of the papers did
likewise. But they could not compete
with the Forward" which remained
the leading spirit.
How could a people fed with such
spiritual matter have any confidence
in men like Marshall, Untermyer or
Schiff? They learned contempt for the
representatives of corrupt political
parties and depredatory wealth." But
this is not everything. The crowd, con-
sisting of men like Hillquit and Abra-
ham Cahan, have conquered practically
everything. Their power has reached
the highest stage.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-fn sd-
vance Of regulations soon TO be an
nouneed designed TO prevent enemy
Endorsements from being placed upon
negotiable instruments payable In the
United States, the War Trade Board
announced tonight that II will not re-
quire licenses for the payment OF
drafts, or checks indorsed by enemies
or allies of enemies, but that when
such drafts or checks are collected for
enemies or allies Of enemies the
funds shall be held subject 70 disposi-
tion By the alien property custodlans.
Under the same conditions the
board will permit without license the
payment Of an acceptance the drawer
Of which subsequently is placed on
the enemy trading list.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Immigrants Ignore
Religious Leaders

It is also an established fact that
the immigrant Jews not only pay no
attention TO the advice and leadership
of such men as Marshall, Untermeyer
and Schiff, but in all other walks OF
life they ignore those who are entitled
BY religion and social standing TO be
their representatives.
on the other hand, they follow will
ingly such men as Hillquit and Abra-
ham Cahsn, editor of the Socialist
daily, Forward"
Who can explain this anomaly |?
Have the immigrant Jews Of America
ceased TO be Jews!
Jewish history ia fraught with ex-
amples where Jews followed blindly
only such men as Marshall, Untermfyer
and Schif.
This change will be of inestimCble
value for the future Jewish historian
in unearthing the facts which wrought
such a great metamorphosls. | viii
touch on a few causes only.
Heinrich Hene shrewdly said, "Wie
es Christeldt sieh, so Judelt sieh.' In
English transposition it would mean,
"The way Christians conduct them
selves, Jews follow suit"
IL began IN Russia in the days OF
Car Nicholas !. The Russian govern
ment and the Russian Church became
closely united, and together they ruled
the Russian people with an iron hand.
Taxation multiplied and the breach be.
tween the ruling classes and the ruled
masses became wider and wider. There
we're only two factions-oppressor and
oppressed. =,
At that juneture Nicholas attempted
to Christisnize his millions OF Jews.
But when Nicholas perceived that they
were ready to die for their religion
he desisted. He decided, however, to
rule them in the same fashion he ruled
the Russians. lie thus appointed Jew
lsh representatives TO be tax collectors
and religious heads. All kinds Of taxes
were levied, but among the, heaviest
were the nest and candle taxes. Re-
ligious Jews had to eat meat slsugh-
tered according 10 the Jewish ritual,
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Billboards Now
The Nation 5 Beacons

The time was when fires lighted on
Cornish hills warned the people Of Eng
land of the approach of invading
armadas. And fearful lights have
beaconed in northern skies as mystic
warnings Of fateful national events.
But to-day the printers ink and the
artists colors spread the alarm, sound
the call 20 arms, and act as the intelli-
gence department Of the nation.
Under Ben S. Allen, in the United
States Food Administration Building,
at the corner Of Nineteenth and D
glass and bristol-board and stucco that
was pitched in a night like an Arab
tent, there are housed some 800 per
sons whose new function is govern
ment publicity.
Artists are drafting posters, lithog-
raphers are in consultation, writer's
are pounding out publicity" on their
typewriters, food experts are digging
up statistics and assembling ideas, and
the propaganda army is buster than
boy with humble bee in his hair.
Fuel Administrator Garfield has
shrcwdly delegated TO p. 3. Moves, the
Oneida Community magnatc, the con-
servation work Of the coal administra-
tion. II consists il the main OF pub
lcity. II was planned to set up an
independent save coal propaganda corps
Of writer's and artists, but the work
has found itself merged with Hoovers
food publicity. which will necessarily
be expanded. Not less than twenty men
and women trained in article and ad-
vertisement writing will Immediately
push the work Of education in coal.
Treatises on coal that nave been
issued BY the Bureau Of Mines. learned
articles on the coal situation from the
Geological Survey and analyses % the
transportation situation By the railroad
bureaus and the coal producing bibiog-
raphers, articles that hitherto inter
ested only coal mongers, are now
adapted TO the palate and the needs
of the general public.
The people of the United States will
know more about the values Of coal
and Of foods and Of transportation be-
fore the winter is over than they else
would have learned in a generation.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Cahan Becomes
Leader Against Rich

Inst az that moment Abraham Ca
han. we'll trained journalist of the
American press, took over the editor
hin of the Forward" He immediate
lv stopped the attacks on religion and
Zionism and, instead thereof, he
moted the prophets, proving thereby
mat even those great Jews Of oiden
times were against the rich oppressors
and took the part OF the poor, lie did
his utmost TO convince his readers that
all the shining lights Of Judaism, be
ginning with Moses and ending with
Marx, were Socialists.
The Jews were tickled by this inter
pretation, and focked to Cahan's stand
ard. Il.
As to the rich American Jews, they
were classed together with the tax
collectors of Russia. Their benevo-
lence was explained to be no more
than q part Of their manifold sports.
The poor, Of course, could not help
but receive what was given 10 them
under the present state OF society. but
they were constantly reminded that
the rich were returning only q small
fraction Of what they stole from those
who toiled.
some of the weli-to-do American
Jews. who took a live interest in the
welfare of their immisyant core
ligionists. who came in their cities
ard mingled in their crowds, per.
eeiyed the situation. They understood
that the Jew, more than any other in
diyidual who reads, believes in the
printed letter. They came to the con-
clusion that papers which change
POLITICAL convictions over night can
have but q bansl influence on their
readers, and that papers of the "Eor-
ward type are leading the Jews into
an unenyiable position. They decided
70 found a paper which should teach
the Jewish Immigrants pure and good
AmeFicanisnl,
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Wealthy Jews
Spared Humiliations

In the beginning of the sos of the
last century, when Gar Alexander III
arranged the infamous pogroms
against the Jews, when thousands were
killed, manned and crippled, and when
Jewish womanhOOd was rayaged. the
rich Jews were spared this humilia-
ton.
With the influx Of immigration to
this country, which the pogroms
brought about, there appeared hordes
Of unfortunates who came here TO seek
a haven of rest. They came friendlesS,
penniless, bereft of their beloved rela-
tives, who fell victims upon the altar
of autoeracy and tyranny, and in their
hearts they carried a deep adherence
of a government capable Of wreaking
vengeance against them and the rich
Jews who served in the interest of that
government.
While in Russia they read secretly
popular Sociaistic literature in Yid-
dish. That literature told them that
there was only one solution 20 the evil
in society, viz: To equalize property
10 divide the wealth Of the rich. Then
governments would not be conducted
any longer by a chosen aristocracy, and
there would no longer be the rich, jew
or Gentle, to practise oppression on
the poor
They were made Socialists by misery.
The immigrant Jew, who arrived
from countries where he suffered in
bondage and slavery, decided that he
had a mission, a new Thorah, which
was handed down by his two brethren,
Karl Marx and Ferdinand La Sale.
He persisted in spreading this new
gospel of Socialism among the Amerl-
can people and he still believes that
it Is his duty 10 be a martyr for that
social theory.
New leaders came to the front, new
teachers appeared and taught them the
theory of internationalism as the great
goal, hence religion and Zionlsm had
to be refuted. But here their leaders
struck a snag. All the Jews could not
divorce themselves from old and deep
ly rooted traditions, and for the time
being IL seemed that Socialism would
not be very successful.
This stage was reached twenty years
ago. when the propaganda papers OF the
Socialists did not seem 10 be thriving.
Then an important oecurrance took
place. The leading and most success
ful paper of the opposition, which was
politically Republican, turned in one
night Democratic. The reason was no
gecfet-money did il. The Socialist
daily made all kinds of capital out Of
it. maintaining that capitalism has
only one ideal-money-and 1T thus
behooves every right thinking Jew TO
ioin the ranks of the Socialists, whom
money cannot buy.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Washington Throws Barrage
OF War Publicity Across U.S..
Great Selling Campaign to Spread Spirit of Battle and Self
Denial Costs $5333 Day-Cree Committee, Extend Scope,
VIII Spend $1,2S5OO0 Abroad for "nfomational Work"

have given their work free 70 the na-
ton. Others have contributed their
services at merely nominal prices, and
only those who could not afford TO
work on any other basis have attached
themselves normally 20 the public
payroll, and then at no fancy salary.
The Nig:lantes have supplied expert
publicity work as knights errant
The first Liberty Loan was marketed
almost exclusively by volunteer eX-
perts at great cost TO the newspapers,
bankers and brokers and writers en-
gagged. The second Liberty loan had
a mcSgre appropriation for publicity
work. The War Savings and subse-
quent Thrift campaigns have their
propaganda features financed In part
by the government
Under Captain Price in the Treas
ury Building at Washington IS a bat
tery Of advertisement writers, pam
phleteers and general publicity men,
stimulating, educating, urging the pub
lie 10 "Financs the Winning Of the
War; Surely, a new function in that
sedate edifce where the United States
acts as the supreme flduciary agent
Of the world at war.
The Treasury Department shared
with the War Department the honor
Of mobilizing the billboards and Of
causing the dead walls 70 cry color
fully the wares Of an embattled nation.
Government propaganda by billboard
will doubtless remain in being. now
that it has been so efficiently enlisted.
For that matter Jay Cooke, the Phila-
6elphia banker, used these very meth
ods during the Civil War, though rath-
er as treasury agent, than as an
official. publicity" was his invention,
and he used Il 10 save the Union, even
as it is now being used TO save the
nation and its ideals Of democracy.
A riper organization lent itself to
Food Administrator Hoover, Espe-
cially in his poster section, the propa-
ganda work effectively touched the
popular Imagination. Millions Of
bushels Of additional grains and vege-
tables have been produced over the
normal supply as a direct result Of
the Hoover and the Houston publicity,
allied, Of course, with the separate
state propagandas.
"TO FARM IS AS NECESSARY AS
TO ARM"
PRODUCE FOOD, CONSERVE
FOOD, DRY AND CAN FOOD"
"FATS.ARE FUEL FOR FIGHTERS"
Thus ran the Hoover legends on a
million walls, many Of them fascinat-
ingly designed and clamorous with
color blendings.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Creel Spends
$3.50 Weekly

Public curiosity as 20 the growth
and management Of these sc ihsissen' cer,
publicity bureaus has prompted Coh, on.
eress to inquire into the methods, ,ho
expenditures and the personInceI Q, .;.,ns s1ms
Of them, notably the Creel Commltteg IlsG
on Public Infoymaton. pireetoI creei
has supplied the House Committee on
Appropriations with summary;
The Creel bureau may De taken a.
- The War Department. II has Isl
emnloyes on the publicity payroll
which totals S5333 weekly. II has
slresdy spent 100000 in seven months
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Journalist Who Fought Junk
ers' Policy From Amster-
dam Missing and Believed
To Be Kidnapped
Revealed Damaging Secrets
of Criminal Policy of
Berlin-Lived Here and Is
u. S. Citizen
By Gustav Miller

Carl Minister, formerly Of New York,
and recently editor Of the German
revolutionary weekly, DER Kampf," of
Amsterdam, mysteriously disappeared,
according to a news telegram from
Amsterdam. It would not be In the
least surprising should. the fear Of his
wife that he was kidnapped by Ger
man agents prove - be true,
DER Kampf" (The Fight is the ap-
propriate title of Minister'S publica-
tion. It Is Of the same, If not greater,
fighting qualities as "Der Kampf," of
Vienna, when it was edited by DR.. Felix
Adler, the consistent son Of DR.. Victor
Adler, the inconsistent leader Of the
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Wants Silk Shirts Barred
From Good Society,"

ATLANTIC CITY. n. j.. Dec. a.
"The time Is fast approaching when .
man who wears silk shirt will have
20 carry Federal license therefor, un-
less he is provided with other evidence
that he is a loyal American" said Dean
Joseph French Johnson, Of the New
York University School OF Commerce,
here to-day at the annual convention
of Alexander Hamilton Institute Of
New York. "The men who squander
money on luxurieS should be barred
from good society"
Dean Johnsok was urging the neees-
sity Of national thrift. The convention
was held In the Hotel Traymore,
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Attempt to Tell Others
Side Ill Starred

Il was their intention to enlighten
the immigrant Jew ard convince him
OF the vast difference between Rus
sian autocraey and American democ-
rsey; it was their aim 10 prove TO the
Immigrant Jew that the Jewish tax
collectors OF Russia we're not more
than puppets in the hands Of q tyrant
and that the well-to-do American jew
is reSdy and willing to share all he
has in life for the benefit Of his op-
pressed eo-religionists Aye. they In
tended to tell the immigrant Jew OF
the lofty ideals upon which this Re
public was founded and Of the equal
New-York tribune., 1917-12-23
Famine Aids
Publicity Work

After one has generously credited
Messers. Hoover and Garfield with
being able, by propaganda, to. prevent
waste in sugar and in coal, which
waste otherwise would be prevented by
extortionate or panic prices. one has
20 admit that more sugar has been con-
served by the sugar famine than mas
been conserved by the propaganda ana
more coal has been conserved py tne
famine than the coal propaganoS eou'u
The cries: "Saye Sugar" and "Saye
CoaI.D have ironic/ values 70 the man
who has been able 20 get neither a.,
But the actual absence Of sugar and
oq coal has lasted only for short times
II is in the longer intervals when we
have both sugar and coal that the IN
junction 20 save becomes Importantly
effectively.