New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
Taxpayers Vote to
Bar Hearst Papers
From Forest Hills
Request Long Island News
Company to Refuse to
Handle Them

At meeting Of the Forest Hills
Tax Payers Association last night in
the Forest Hills Methodist Episcopal
Church resolution was adopted re-
! qucsting the Long Island News Com
pany not to send any German language
newspapers or "The New York Ameri-
can" or New York Evening Journal" to
the newsdealers in Forest Hills refuse
to hereafter handle thes. publications.
The resolution was forwarded by the
association to its representative in
Congress, with request that he OK
ert his influence for a Rational move
rnent against the Hearst papers. A
committee was appointed to urge each
| of the remaining forty-five subscribers
in the town to discontinue giving COM
fort to the enemy by reading the
newspapers quoted with approval iii
| Germany.
Only One Dissenting Vote
With only one dissenting vote, that
Of s. w. Eckman, of 10 Greenway Ter
I race, the following motion proposed
| by Lyman Beecher Stowe was passed:
THAT the Tax Payers Association
offer of the Long Island News Com
pany to cease to furnish Hearst news
papers. or that the local newsdealer,
if not supplied by that company, be
/ urged to take whatever steps are nee
essary to prohibit the sale of Hearst
newspapers and German language
newspapers in this city"
l. Chaikin, proprietor Of stationery
shop which supplies newspapers to the
1oct ;rr1\ I.
the feeling of the community was
against the sale Of Hearst newspapers,
as his entire stock of them had been
repeatedly purchased and torn to
shreds. He added that he would dis
continue the sale of them whenever
his customers revoked their orders.
= Lyman Beecher Stowe, in proposing
that the association take formal ac-
ton to voice the prevailing feeling in
the community, said:
buying up the entire stock OF
Hearst papers and tearing them to
pieces Is a good method to show how
: we regard them, but it is ephemeral
M ana Hearst still profits by the sale.
; The time has come for more effective
action"
Alexander Cameron, president of the
Taxpayers Association, who presided
. said:
"Hearst's talk of conspiracy to bow
cott his newspapers is all nonsense
: II the sentiment of community is
against. them, his circulation is bound
| TO decline. Our community takes this
| method of expressing its unfavorable
} opinion of them, and couples that ex-
preston with request to the remain
: ing forty-tve subscribers that they
< refrain from the pernicious practice OF
helping enemy propaganda by buying
Hearst newspapers"
) Committee to See Subscribers
!, Dr.. S. j. Davenport and Gardner Os.
born were named as committee of
two to bring to the attention of the
remaining subscribers to "The Ameri.
! can" and journal" the action of the
association against Hearst papers.
=, Mr.. Osborn read extracts from edi.
torials in "The American" and said
that advertisers We're beginning ia
avoid the use of Hearst newspapers
. and magazines. The Johns-Manyille
Company, he said, had refused abso-
lutely to place any more advertise
, ments in Hearst publications.
S. w. Eckman. the lone objector to
the motion against Hearst, by way of
apology said later in the meeting that
he had been so busy with Red Cross
matters and arrangements for Fourth
of July celebration that he was not
;; familiar with the Hearst newspapers
After hearing the extracts read in the
, meeting from "The American" and "Thc
Journal" he said he was CONVINCED
that they should not be circulated in
.. Forest Hills, or anywhere else in
America