The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-18
CONGRESS HALLS
PRESIDENTS REPLY

i NuNkUuN1 O1N11 LII
Continued from First Page.
Creel approved II on the word Of DR.. AL
bert Shaw OF the ReViep Of Revtetos
The authorship appears to be anony-
nous.
"it was on the faith Of what Or.
Shaw said that Mr.. Creel announced In
this letter that he gave his letter OF
commentator"
Cannot Read Creel's Mind.
May ask the Senator IL MI Creel
has ever yet taken the American people
Into his confidence enough to tell them
who the disloyal author Of this disloyal
work actually isT' demanded Senator
Reed (Mo.).
HE has not. and I do not undertake
to read Mr.. Creel's mind" said Senator
Lodge. "It moves in a mysterious way.
its wonders to perform
II want to suggest In view of the fact
that II is admitted that the work 10 dis
loyal. so disloyal that II has been called
in and suppressed" began Senator
Reed.
"Mr. Creel admits It," interposed Sem
ator Lodge.
II was curious to know whether, as
he vouched for this work and must know
Its author, he has not as yet turned that
disloyal one over to the Department Of
Justice" Senator Reed finished with a
| snap.
Not to my knowledge" said Senator
Lodge.
September L." Senator Lodge re-
sumed. there was published an order
from the Secretary Of War excluding
| from soldiers libraries and from camps
certain books. The Secretary was en-
tire.y right, and II was q most excellent
| and commendable order in every way.
Books Sent to Camps.
Il will read few examples Of these
books that we're finding their way into
our camps and soldiers libraries:
THE Personal Memoirs OF an An
| archist,' by Alexander Berkmann, who Is
now serving time, having been convicted
Of obstructing the draft.
| Another book by Scott Nearing, who
was indicted for conspirins to obstruct
the draft.
"A book by Hugo Munsterberg, of
course n representative of Germany.
"A book by Prof. Burgess. well known
as German advocate, and a book by
| George Sylvester Viereck, formerly edi-
tor of the Father1dnd.
| Nothing could be more CONNER dable
or praiseworthy than that order Of the
Secretary OF War.
But" pursued Senator Lodge, who
is putting those books into the soldiers
| libraries and into tho camps, books
which the Secretary OF War has for
hidden. That eneinery Of German
propaganda Is reaching even into the
reading matter that is furnished to our
soldiers
| Let mo give another illustration 10
show how far they have gone. Here is
a book that the Secretarys list excludes
1t In entitled Why War? It Is written
by Frederick c. Howe. have not ex.
amined the book. I understand 1t treat,
the war as directed to settlement OF
certain economic question:
Called II Economic War.
MY attention was called to an article
by Mr.. Howe published April 10, 1918
after we had been at war a year, ir
Hurpers Magazine That article deal.
with the war as IL we were in this wal
for some economic advantages. as II tina
were all that was at stake in this war
The idea that we should be sending GU,
youth to be killed in France to get &
trade advantage somewhere! II thi.
Congress and the President had done Il
on grounds like that II would have beer
crime. To put out such stun as tina
seems intolerable. and It IL only one Of
the many books the Secretary of Wal
has so wisely excluded"
Senator Lodge then read an excerp
from Mr.. Howe's article in which con
cession Of Germany's railway ambitions
in Asia Minor were admitted as just