Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-15
WIPE OUT MANY
GERMAN PAPERS
Department of Justice Goes
After Spreaders of En-.
emy Propaganda
ALL FLAUNTED TEUTONs

Circulation and publicatio of books.
postca rds and posters used for spread
ing German propaganda has virtually
been wiped out in Pennsylvania and
New Jersey. Frank L. Garbarino, OF
the Department Of Justice, announced
today, Much Of the work has been
accomplished within the last thirty
days
Twenty books, magazines and pam
phets. which reached wide clrcula-
tion and which were either of German
originator inspired by ideals typically
German. have been discovered and sup
pressed during the last month.
The circulation of postcards and
posters through the mails in which mes
sages from German leaders were dis
trbu'ed among German sympathizers
and German secret agents has been
stopped almost entirely. The number or
separate posters and postcards which
were found to have been menace 10
the country In their printed messages
| Is unusually large All Haunted Ger
many and things German as generally
superior TO the rest of the world, ana
particularly superior to the United
States. France and Great Britain.
The greater amount of effective work
was accomplished only recently. although
IL required much time to work out the
details and to bring Investigations to
/ "A point when there was sure evidence
against the publications now suppressed
The trail of German-published propa-
ganda has been well defined i'm some
instances but in poster and postcard
distribution 1t was exceptionally unos-
tentatious and therefore the more dan
! gerous
Magazines Suppressed
| Among the magazines which have been
| suppressed recently is Bull" New
| York publication which received short
| lived circulation. II was the most vci-
Gus of all in its attitude toward Eng
land its title being "take-off" on the
! British national idomatic appelation
| John Bull" On the cover just beneath
the title line was printed the British
/ Union Jack" one of the national flags
"Niereck's American Weekly" and
/ Issue and Events" are other weeklies
/ which are now suppressed through the
| efforts of the Department of Justice.
! The New German American Calendar
| for 1918. published anonymously in
| Philadelphia. was tracked to lair of
/ propa ganda lies and nipped In the bud
before 1t attained a wide circulation
even among the German-American cit
liens The Family Calendar for 1918,
published in New York, has also been
suppressed along with the anonymous
/ Philadelphia calendar.
| A novel and interesting piece of pro-
paganda was unearthed in "A Trip
Through Head Line Land" The title
referred to the display captions used
/ in the daily newspapers. and was pub
I blished in New York II was a COM
pilation of headlines chosen from va
/ rous American dailes before the
/ United States entered the war, telling
| of German victories. II was printed and
circulated after we went to war with
the Kaiser
Another book, printed in Boston under
the authorship of Hellmuth Won Mucke
which first came to the attention Of the
department agents when 1t was found
here, was entitled "Emden," the name ot
a German ship which was stationed ir
western Atlantic waters before the war
1t lauded naval atrocities as bits OF
stratagem."
No stone Left Unturned
In fact, MIR, Garbarino expla ined. nc
stone in the literary field was left un
turned in the search for snakes lyinf
coled beneath to strike "A blow at Amer
lean patriotism Books shouting b,
"
tion and circulation have been fount
going the rounds of readers who vii
accept that sort of thing without think
ing of the purpose behind It.
good example Of this was tthe bool
of verse by Hans Heinz Ewers, printed
In New York and entitled German
Kreigslieber," meaning German wa
songs.
There are also instances of what Mr.
Garbarino termed unwilling propa
ganda." or books written by authors VIII
thought their works strictly in accord
ance with the facts, hut who foun,
themselves mistaken An example 1
England or Germany" by an autho
whose motives and patriotism have no
been questioned. but whose book wa
withdrawn from circulation.
An Aviator's Field Book" by Oswal
Bolcke. and "Zeppelins Over Englan
at Night" by an anonymous writer
who sings himself Won -? wer
printed in German and widely circu
lated