The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-07

" HtLHtI tue bON StOulA pay advertising rates for it's propa- ganda publicity matter is a subject for argument but not for argument here. The point l desire 10 make Ia that the attacks on the newspaper business made by certain government officials should be stopped. Some of these men who are most successful in the line of bushes which has made them prominent and who are undouJt edly men Of unusual intelligence, have advised against adyerusng campaigns at this time on the groLnd that they are not essential and no, economic necessities This ground l. taken because of ignorance or mayoe just because the official has taken III too much territory l think 1t has been reduced to absurdity in the move to abolish the names of all the ma tionally known passenger trains-thc Overland Limited, the Sunshine Spe- cial. the Empire State Express, TOT instance. #as at a loss to under stand why this move had been put on foot until I received a few days ago an explanation from the Chicago Railway Review According to the Railway Review the names of these famous trains are abolished because such names are advertising and hence taboo it is difficult to believe that this is the explanation, but the Rail way Review has investigated If ii is the explanation then the heat oi
 the war is getting on somebody's nerves at Washington.
 If the people of this country would stand for 1t we should have censor ship which would be in the hands oi , men who know no more about th' newspaper business than they know about the making of watch. But the people will not stand for censorsnp Now a word to those men who are advising against advertising cam paigns because they consider these unnecessary in war times. The, should consider that newspapers car
 not be run on love and affection. T | is necessary now for newspapers C
 have more advertising than ever 1T order Go keep their heads above water If all tho newspapers had gone
 under the day the United States de
 clared war the draft would have beer defeated, the first Liberty loan cam- paign would have been a failure th' l first Red Gross drive would have beer
 a failure We should have been Ou of the war and pilloried the work over as an inefficient jelly-fish, na ton disorganized, disarmed, disgrace
 You may think I am oyerstating il but what have said will hta analysts The freedom of which oul newspapers and our journeymen ora tors tall. is a real thing in this cOun ltry One of the things our freedom has brought Co us is a desire to know before we step forward. You can tell the people of this country tha
 q thing is all right and expect then
 to believe it They want 10 kno" why it is all right and they want proo
 that it is all right They think fol
 themselves and they resent any ar tempt on the part of any leader oI
 leaders to do their thinking.
 It was not until the newspapers oi ] this country drove the information
 into them that the people of the ip- terior states and those states fur
 thest removed from the Atlantic sea
 board took a real, live personal, in
 terest in this war. The draft law went over because the newspapers explained and re-explainod the nee essity for it and the provisions for it Snare salesman have tried 10 sell bonds in the south since this coun-
 try was a country and have failed
 but nearly every family in the south
 owns a bond now and that bond is Liberty bond.
 Every editor present here receive an average of ten letters a day from
 the United States government 1e-
 questing pulicity for some of 'ts ac- tlvities. Most of the activities are
 worthy and necessary but you can
 not give all the publicity requested because you would have to enlarge your paper if you did SO Yet this is the business that is being put m precarious position by the march o events.
 Don't fool yourself Don't think vol '. have a friend in congress. The con. ! gressman from yonr district may sen' ! you seed and he may come n an'