The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1918-06-22
NEWSPAPERS OF COUNTY not
DOING THEIR BIT GILL ALLEGES

That the press of Union County is
hesitant about publishing the mat
ter submitted it by the County Coun-
Gil of Defense; that that organ
ization could get nothing in the
papers, and that the newspapers
were not doing their utmost to aid
in the war work of the county was
intimated by Joeph C. Gill at meet
ing of Clayton attorneys held Friday
night, the News is reliably inform
ed. The charges, it is reported,
were inferred rather than made di-
rectly. The report bears out q few
other remarks that have been re-
peated to us, and while these re-
marks were more generally direct
ed at our contemporaries than at
the News, the reported remarks of
Friday evening were more specific
in their direction.
The News respectfully calls the at
tention of Joseph C. Gill to this
issue, in which appears more war
savings stamp publicity than has ap-
peared in any other newpaper of
the state. The remarks of Mr.. Gill,
made at meeting of the attorneys
of the city Friday night, in which he
stated that he could get nothing in
the newspapers were to say the least
ill-advised, if not deliberately false.
The attention of Mr.. Gill is called to
the fact that not one issue of the
News has appeared in W.ii.l column
after column of appeals for the Red
Cross, Liberty Bonds and War Saw
ings Stamps have not been printed.
This publicity represents space, type
and labor that could have been sold
lat a profit; some of ii space and labor
that all the money in the world could
not have purchased, because it was
space that is nOt-sOld by newspapers,
and labor that is not given for hire.
Even all the wealth that Mr.. Gill
may be possess of could not pur-
chase one line in the editorial col
umnS of the News. which have con-
tanned patriotic appeals to the peO-
pie of Union County that were not
written for the wage the Newsman
receives, but were written because
the Newsman's heart and the heart
of his employer, We're pleading with
the hearts of his readers to support
worthy cause to the extent of their
ability.
The press of Union County is loyal
Mr.. Joseph C. Gill. The heart of the
press of Union County is with the
Government in this great struggle for
for Democracy. And because your
name is not mentioned as the lead
er of all war movements in Union
County, because your little bit is
not regarded by the press with the
same magniflcience that you your
self think it deserves, is not sure
sign the press is not backing the
ernment to its fullest extent.
The News, nor the Citizen, nor the
Swastika, nor the La Union del
Pueblo, Mr.. Gill were not responsible
for the spreading of the word that
Union County was the Stacker county
of the United States. The News,
Mr.. Gill, nor the Citizen, nor the
Swastika, nor the La Union del Pueb-
10, did not go TO Santa Fe with the
deliberate mistatement that there
were more Pro-Germans in Union
County than in all the rest Of the
state.
The Press of Union County is just
plain honest patriotic, Mr.. Gill, gfV-
ing all it can and getting along with
out howl while 1t sees its material
supplies threatened daily and while
its profits are being cut TO the quick
by this same war that you have the
temerity to say it Is not supporting
Government TO its fullest ability.
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