The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-06-12
CREEL'SPLANS
GIVECONGRESS
CRITICS CHANCE
Head of Public Information
Bureau Explains Need of
$2,O98.OOO.
STIFF FIGHT PROMISED
Bureau Expenses No Longer to
Be Paid From Prcsi-
dents Fund.
STIFF FIGHT PROMISED

dents Fund.
Speael DesssteA 70 Tns srx.
WASHINGTON. June 11.-For eight
hours to-day the sundry civil sub-com-
mi,tee Of the House Appropriation Com
man Of the Public Information Commit
tee, and then asked him to return to-
morrow and continue his explanation Of
the publicity bureau's past activities and
IL plans for the future.
For the expenses Of the Information
Committee for the next nscal year Mr..
Creel requested . specific appropriation
Of $2,0sS.00o. an understanding having
already been reached that hereafter the
committee shall not be sustained out Of
the Presidsnts contingent war fund but
shall be put on Z regular appropriation
basis.
When this became known in Congress
to-day the critics Of Nr. Creel in both
houses are understood to have begun
u sharpen their verbal rapiers in prepa-
ration for the debate on the Creei item.
Critics Eager for Chance at Crssl.
Now that Mr.. Cresl IL to become in
sense responsible to Congress because
Of . specific appropriation. his critics
are unQusstionably preparing to renew
their hght on his bureau and will b
moro unsparing in their remarks than
whom Mr.. Crsel was essentially the
personal representative Of the President.
Mr.. Creel was heard behind closed
doors by the sub-oommittse. but Chair
man sheriey promised. that thS heArin4s
subsequently would be made public. 1t
was asserted to-day that the hearings
were devoid Of outstanding features and
consisted OF elaborate and detailed sx-
plantations Of everything the Information
Committee has done and expects to do.
II was intimated after the hearing to-
day that not all Of the propaganda"
work Of the Committee on Public Infor-
nation will be paid from the @:.0sS.O00
for the committee. The President. 1t IL
understood. win finance q certain
amount OF foreign propaganda work
from his own contingent fund. hut de-
tails were withheld a. to this in view Of
the fact that the special fund Of $780,
100000 which Congress intends to vote
the President for national defence and
security will have no strings tied to It.
Agent for south America. .-
1t was announced this morning that.a
representative OF the Creei bureau soon
will start for South America to give the
Latin Americans information concerning
the United States.
Chairman Creel began the presenta-
ton Of his much discussed salary roll
in piecemeal form. AZ each division was
reached Mr.. Creel explained the salaries
paid therein and the House sub-commit-
Zee is believed to have found the sal
aries not unreasonable and the payroll
smaller than rumor had It, In fact Mr..
Creel made a rather good impression on
the committee. ..
There was considerable discussion OF
the salaries the Committee on Public In
formation Is paying to &ormer newspaper
men now attached to its roll. Chairman
Creel said the customary salary paid
newspaper men now In his bureau was
$4,000 year. or SIS a week. and that .
number OF his associates were working
at financial sacrifce.
The House subcommittee. which evil
IDENTIFY had an erroneous idea as to the
earning ability Of Washington newspa-
per men. appeared to lean finally to the
idea that perhaps after all the young
men Of Mr. Creers bureau are not over
paid.
How Money IL 70 Pc spsnt.
Detailed estimates submitted by Mr..
Creel. who was accompanied by Prof.
Guy Stanton Ford. director Of the d.
vision Of Civic and Educational Cor.
poration. and Carl Byoir. associate
chairman. were a. follows for the sew.
eral divisions:
Executive. $4,000; news. $4,000; four
minute men. $4,000: speaking. $4,000;
films. 100000; service bureau. refer
ence. $4,000: advertising. $4,000;
State fair exhibits. 5000, civil and
educational publications. 100000: pro-
duction. $4,000: distribution. 100000
pictorial publicity. $1,000; woman's
war work. $4,000; industrial. $4,000;
business mana cement and general COM
mittee accounts. 100000; pictures.
$4,000; syndicate features. $4,000;
oiiiciai bulletin. e3se.oee; foreign born.
S?60,000: allied war exposition. e1e.ooo.
Mr.. Crssl hniahsd ~ explanatioa OF
only about ons-half Of tAsQe items to-
day and did not fully ~ iatS ~ peopa.
sanda werk ef NJ 'saGnnssesA H will
cover this to-m3sxoJu 81, 4, 81. -..,.s =. \
The largest itssns - NJ. Oreers eee.
mates include IL 0G6pl1l 1ulteetn, which
was declared 70 - sgogtaattelly ssli-
sustaining through eubecr1pttens. Give
and sduoatlenal publSea@ieaa, eSee.see.
witch Include vastsus Daanhjsts -
patriotic subjects sssa - tne 49,.
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