South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-28
WHY NOT APPLY SOME OF THIS
"PITILESS PUBLICITY TO LOCAL
WAR ACTIVITIES.
CtDTILESs PUBLICITY."

GED ITILESS PUBHCTTY!"
IL sounds very heroic when you hear it
from the Hon. Iii Johnson, Californian.
roaring for IL like one of his former running
mates mountain lion; cchoing i'm the halls Of
congress.
"Give the truth to the American peopIe."
Wonderfully considerste of the American poo
pie Is the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Massachusetts;
that they may something that calls the
truth-as he wants them TO see IT,
And wedged in between them, bringing up s'nc
middle; all hail the Hon. Harry :. New OF In
diana. He wants you to know all about where the
dead and the wounded came FROM whether You
ever heard of them before nOt-but please for
get all about the poisoned victims of his embalm-
ed beef whom he the hospitals and
their graves hack i'm IS and 9S.
"PitiIess publicity 1t all depends upon the
that be made OF il; upon whose is being
gored;' the advantage TO which il be put
THE 'pitless publicity for which Sens. John
son. Lodge, New and others of their iIk below
ing is only prctensively in the interests of the
American people.
1t isn't the truth but lies that they would have
the people hear-Or worse still, the unmerci-
fully warped into lies; misinformation, misnter-
probation, snecrs snarIs innuendo doing their
work.
1t is the publicity that the split-tongue of the
"copperhead" would spit i'm the American face:
never mind the advantage to the enemy if il only
helps their own personal or partisani1ed causes.
= ENSORSTnP.
- Terrible isn't il that your Uncle Samuel
knowledge
that he does not to have the winds?
That the government of the United States should
maintain a censorship bureau; a department. Of
public information. and should fit to hold back
certain information. which i'm its judgment would
be injurious TO its cause seems perfectly AWFUL?
Very well. gentlemen: and by gentlemen mean
some very local gcntlcmen-gentlemen engaged
somewhat in local war activities, but who applaud
the demand for 'pitless publicity that halls from
Washington, and who law awake nights applaud
the Capt StaytOn's who grumbe and
into our immediate
If il is "pitiIcss publicity" YOU want why not
practice what you preach?
Hereafter, Mr.. Liberty Loan committee. let your
every move be recorded through the immediate
presence of the reporters; not publicity, "hand
OUT agent of your own chOsing
Same with the War Savings committee. the Red
Cross committee; the state and County Councils
of Defense! We might go indefinitely.
If the presumption in the case of the govern
ment is the 'ptess publicity advocates ut
Washington blatantly insinuate that everything
underneath must be rotten because il isn't made
public, why isn't il true IN your case?
What right have these war agencies TO an "ohi-
ciaI bulletin" publicity agent-a censOr-to
go around tell the newspapers what print and
what not TO print any more than the federal gov
ernment has?
Are j. ID. Oliver. head of the County Council of
Defense and of the Thrift Stamp movement. r.
VI. Hutchinson. press agent the latter: or Rev
c. \. Lippncott. head of the local Red Cross. OF
his press AGENT Arthur ID. Baker, chairman
of the county Liberty Loan committee, or his
'puDHCty bureau, AND we might On.-any
more competent To- tell the newspapers what To
print. and what not to print. than Woodrow
Wilson. Newton D. Baker. Josephus Daniels or, if
you please, their publicity agent George CreeI?
Is the job OF these local gentlemen any bigger.
secrecy to certain phases OF il of any more inn
pOrtance publicity i'm others of any greater
value. incident this world war, than that
the president the secretary of war; secretary CT
the navy?
Suppose, i'm order to bring it home to Mr. Aver
Citizen, what 'pitiless publicity" means; Mr..
Average Citizen who thinks the government is
Stacker because il doesn't advertise all il knows:
suppose publish a list of South Bend "slackers'
eligibles who dodge the Boys Working reserve.
glect to enlist, not only their mite" but their
might" i'm the WAR Chest fund. who buy no
War Savings certificates Liberty bonds?
If il is 'pitless publicity that you want gentle
men, why just say so. We thought everybody
cooperating To "hclp win the war" but if il is TO
be exploited now, and the that the govern
ment has been using, and must of necessity is
To Dc capitalized for political pundcr-with the
construction placed upon il that il "sheId'
rather than preserve well, let have pitt
less publicity" all the way down the line.
L. II