Bisbee daily review., 1918-11-23
ENDLESS PROPAGANDA
FINANCED ASSOCIATIONS, sUBsI- DEED WRITERS AND WORKED HAND IN HAND WITH GERMAN AMERICAN ALLIANCE, ACCORD ING TO DOCUMENTS READ
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-Addition
 al records from the private files of the United States Brewers association
 showing methods adopted in the or
 ganization's effort to combat the pro.
 hibitiOn movement, were read in the record of the senate investigating
 committee today by Major F. Lowry
 Humes, who is in charge of the in- quiry.
 These records deal with the organ ization and financing of the National Association of Commerce and Labor, disbursements to the German-Amer- ican alliance, the employment of spe- cial writers for beer propaganda and a suggestion to Hugh F. Fox, secre- tary of the association, that the brew CTS offer a prize for the best essay on the solution of the "saloOn prob lem' with the cooperation on news papers as a medium of publicity. The Hearst papers were suggested in this connection.
 Other records included a suggestion that efforts be made to induce J. C.. Pritchard, former federal judge of Asheville, N. C., and a prohibition ad- vocate, to write a letter to brewer soliciting funds with a view to dis crediting him. Other documents in cluded letters purporting to show that a Miss l. T. Martin was employed to attend meeting of the anti-saloon league in Alliance City, N J., in 1915 to report the proceedings to the brew CTS, and in August of the same year she attended a meeting of Catholic prohibition society in Niagara Falls, was elected secretary and subse- quently destroyed the records of the session. She was on the associations payroll at $500 a month, according to the records.
 The committee heard only one wit ness today, but before adjourning to December 3, it decided to take up at that time a general inquiry into Ger man propaganda. Alexander Konta of New York, who has been mentioned in connection with the German propa- ganda movement, will be called to tes- tify probably immediately after the inquiry is resumed.
 The name of the person suggesting the essay contest on the saloon was not given. He pointed out the ad- vantage of working through the news papers in bringing the prize essay to the attention of the public instead of the association taking it up directly. If the Hearst newspapers for ex- ample" the suggestion read, could be gotten to cooperate with the brew CTS for months before prize awards were made, they would carry editions and articles to stimulate interest The people would send in manuscripts and the winning article would be widely read. On the other hand, if the United States Brewers association of fered a prize, the Associated Press would carry a short announcement of the fact"
 The brewers plea of the value of the publicity was set forth in another instance when suggestion was made for the use of the American Press plate matter The Asso- ciated Press, the letter said, reaches the public through press dispatches, but the American Press association reaches the readers of the smaller in Jnss connection the writer of the suggestion called atten- tion to the alleged use of the latter
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