The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-01-18
WHAT AN AMERICAN
NEWSPAPER DID
How tae Providence Journal" As.
sisted by I;s Clever Staff of Re-
porters Matched with the German
Secret Service.

Secret Service.
A newspaper known throughout
the world today is the Providence
journal, which for years has ranked
with the Springfield Republican, the
Boston Transcript and the Hartford
Coprant as local publications with
more than local influence. =
Twelve years ago John R. Rathom
went to Providence as editor of the
journal, later becoming editor and
general manager. He had previous
ly, as correspondent of the Chicago
Herald, served in Cuba during the
Spanish War and in South Africa
during the Boer War. His expert
ence as a war correspondent, as a
traveller and as a student of world
politics served him well when the
Great War opened.
Editor Rathom is telling in the
Worlds Work how he and his news
paper unearthed and exposed the long
series Of German plots against Amer
lea.
He forced the call Of Won papen
and Boyd. He unearthed DR.. Helm
rich Albert and his forty-million-dol-
lar corruption fund and sent him
bcak to Germany. He discovered
and revealed the plot to restore Huer-
ia to a Cerman-made dictatorship
in Mexico. He proved that the "Lusi-
tania' warning was sent out by the
German Embassy on orders direct
from Berlin. He sent Consul Cen
ersl Bopp. at San Francisco, to psis-
on for two years for conspiracy. He
warned the Government that the Ca
madam Parliament Building at Otta-
wa was to fired three weeks before it
was burned by German agents.
Mr.. Rathom knows, as millions Of
Americans believe, that America still
is in deadly peril from without and
within and he hopes by showing the
facts to awaken the American people
even more to their danger and to
the necessity of bending every energy
to the defeat of the enemy.
The Providence journal has been
the ean of disclosing facts that US
ualiy are procured only by the secret
agents of the Government.
This mass of data, accumulated in
three years of c~easeless search. is
stored in triplicate vaults in Provi-
dence, New York and Washington.
Copies Of every item of it have been
supplied, as discovered, to the State
Department in Washington or to some
other branch Of the Government. It
is literally the foundation stone upon
which has been erected she whole
structure of our present enormous
secret service.
Editor Rathom had the foresight
to have taken down in writing and
kept on file every wireless despatch
sent by the great Sayville and Tuck
erton station since the day war was
declared in August. 1914. and also
possessed the ingenuity to decipher
masses OF these dispatches in code.
including thousands of damning mes
sages from Won BernstorA, Won Pa
pen. Boyd, Dumba. Won Nuber,
and scores Of nameless others, to the
German and Austrian governments. |
In his efforts to serve his coun- |
try. he succeeded in getting his own |
reporters into confidential positions !
in the twelve important Teu-
tonic headquarters in the United
States, including the Germany En-
bassy in Washington. and received
them almost daily reports and
original documents covering every
phase Of German plots and German
propaganda.
When the war began, in 1914, most
Americans regarded themselves as in
but aloof spectators Of the
most colossal drama ever staged in
the worlds history. That it might
concern them in their own dearest
and possessions did not for one
moment enter their minds. But Mr..
Rathom knew otherwise. He had
pretty much the whole |
world-Europe. Africa, China, Aus
and the United States. Hell
Knew. of old, Germany's ambitions;
particularly its designs upon the y.
Doctrine, and it's subtle and
.arefully organized propaganda to -,
Consolidate the Germans in the Unit =,
ID States for the working out of the g.,
American end Of its dream of world =,
dominion. Hence, the day war was :
declared he began to probe the Ger !,
activities in America, knowing !
vell that soon they would be in full >