New-York tribune., 1918-07-10
Defence Committee to Rout
american" and Journal"
From Dumont, N. J.
II Won't Read Them''
Canvass Is Planned
Anti-Hearst Buttons To Be
Distributed to All Sign
ing Pledge

DUMONT, n. j., July 9.-The women
OF this town waited patiently for the
men folk to clear the place of Hearst's
newspapers. Several men made at.
eempts along that line. but these
publications still we're distributed here
Then yesterday the members of the
Dumont Woman's Committee of the
Council of National Defence dscided to
take matters in their own hands.
The women adopted a resolution de-
nouncing Hearst's papers as unpatriotic
and seditious, pledging members OF
the committee to refrain from reading
not only newspapers but also maga-
zines published by William Randolph
Hearst, and pledging the committee s
members TO make personal appeals to
their fellow citizens also to refrain
from buying those publications.
After adopting this resolution the
woman's committee decided to make
a personal canvass of every Dumont
home, asking their fellow townspeople
to sign pledge not to read Hearsts
publlcations for the period OF the war.
Inc committee women voted to buy 500
or the Il DO Not Read Hearst's Papers
buttons, which Lieutenant Claude w.
Boyntan designed. These buttons will
be presented to the Dumont citizens
who answer the appeal of the Defence
Council women.
Anti-Hearst Resolutions
Mrs. n. B. Jenkins, committee chair
man. whose son enlisted in the navy
yesterday, proposed the resolutions,
winch are as follows:
Resolved, That we, the Woman's
Committee of the Council of National
Defence Of Dumont, N. j., do most
heartily dsapprove and earnestly
condemn the Hearst daily papers for
their unpatriotic, seditious and hypo-
critical utterances; and,
Resolved, That we hereby pledge
ourselves not to subscribe to, buy.
read or countenance in any way any
OF the Hearst publications, includ-
ing the following magazines:
'Hearst's,' Cosmopolitan .Harper's
Bazar,' Motor Motor Boating,
Puck and Good Housekeeping: and.
"Resolved, That we call upon our
1eliow townsmen as patriotic Ameri-
cans to take and keep the same
pledge; and
Resolved, That we purchase 500
antl-Hearst buttons to be used as
propaganda and that We hereby
pledge ourselves each to wear one of
the Buttons"
Fears of Soldiers
Mrs. jenkins said that, Dumont be-
ing SO close to Camp Merritt, it was
especially desirable that Hearsts pa
pers be excluded from the town.
"If for no other reason.n declared
Mrs. Jenkins, "Hearst's publications q
ought to be kept from this town ont
OF Difference to the boys, some of whom
may, give up their lives over there
Besides, the soldiers from the West.
who are not aware of the real nature
OF Hearsts papers, are likely to buv
some. And Hearst's newspapers do NOT
strengthen soldiers morale"
After reading the resolution MRS.
jenkins asked whether anv of the
committee thought it was too stronp,
MISS Katherine Macdonald declared
~ was not. Mrs. William Inness,
chairman of the Dumont Red Cross
moved its adoption. Mrs. E. F. Watson
seconded it, and it was adopted hv a
unanimous vote.
VIII Distribute Buttons
The suggestion then was made that
tne committee canvass the town on
the Hearst question, just as it did re-
Gently on the suffrage issue. This idea
was was enthusiastically received. The
Defence Council women vowed to mt
the same spirit into the Hearst can
vass as they did in Liberty Loan and
Red Cross drives
After the citizens have signed our
pledge, suggested Mrs. Jenkine
they should be presented with one Of
the anti-Hearst buttons to wear-then
IT Will be known who's who in Du.
mont" ""' :" Du-
Mrs. Faunce raised the question as
10 why the Defence Council commit
zee snould stop with their own town.
Let's ask our husbands to circulate
the pledges on the commuters tra;ns ;,
she urged. "Fine!" chorused several
OF the committee women.
Objector Is Won Over
one member Of the committee ar
rived after the resolution was adont-
ed. When told about il She nron,ntI,,
agreed that Hearsts daily newspape rs
should be barred from town. hnt she
objected to cancelling her subscrin-
tion to Good Housekeeping.
lts good magazine; like to read
It," she stated; "and I've never seen
anything pro-German in it, either"
MIS-. Jenkins made this reply: "I
used to like to read Good Housekeen-
ing too. But in these days, accord
ing to the law, we Americans are pro-
hibited from trading with the enemy.
Trading with Hearst is the same.
Hearst's offences are made all the
worse because of the fact he was born
on American soil. Putting penny
into Hearst's pocket is the same as
giving financial aid to a citizen of
Germany"
That's good sense!" said the late
conner, as she signed her name to the
resolution.
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