The Winslow mail., 1918-06-28

n KR. ROOSEVELT has sent to the Senate ten THU
a|N1 sand words of denunciation of the President
A'A of the United States, of Secretary Baker, of
Postmaster General Bur!eson and of the Hearst
papers He has caused this diarbe to be printed in the
Congressional Record and distributed broadcast among
people at the very moment when the reach
ing it's most arduous and most critical stage
very sincerely believe that Mr.. Roosevelt is max
ing a grave mistake in endeavorng to distract
leaders, disturb the machinery of Government and
of military operations, and spread doubt and dis
trust and dissenson people at this serious
time This is the tirae above all times for the sacrifice
of our personal aspirations and antagonisms
It is the time for the exercise of our utmost COM
bned endeavor for the exertion of most vigorous
united action
/, It is not time for discussion and dissenson and
detracton
All loyal Americans individuals and institutions
should join together regardless of personal or political
preudices, ano work harmonously to help our Pres-
dent and people to win the
This the Hearst publications have earnestly and
consistently endeavored to do
From the very first day of the the Hearst
newspapers have believed that victory would be
by the united effort and energy of all our people, and
not by the pickering and fault-nding of few Of
people.
papers said that the MANAGEMENT of the should
be conided to the Executive that while deiberation
and many counsellors were good in peace undivided
authority and responsibility necessary in
The day after war was declared the Hearst papers
urged "an army of million men,, "the largest increase
numerable mum a % aeropanes ard seapIanes"
The leaders Of both parties in Congress opposed
universal service, any form OF selectlve conscrlp-
ton But the Hearst circulated petitions from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, and collected more than
1000 900 signatures asking Congress to pass the
Selective Conscription Act
"Only by using the full strength Of the nation.
AND EVERY MANS STRENGTH WHERE 1T is
MOST NEEDED the full power of the nation be ex-
erted the definite verbatim expression Of this pc
tition.
l myself went personally to Washington to urge
former associates in Congress to vote selective
conscripton and on April 27 published four-column
signed article in the Washington Post advocating it.
Tho fCht
the Hearst papers called for the conquest of the air.
More than twenty editorials some OF them tu!I pages,
urged the appropriation of the 900 for aero
planes and avators, which was finally secul I'd.
Another urgent need was merchant ships FOR
TWO YEARS BEFORE THE WAR the Hear papers
fought with vigor and persstency for Government
built merchant marine But the bill providing for it
killed by a fbuster, in which Senators Penrose
and Oliver, Elihu Root and Henry Cabot Lodge of
Massachusetts-all friends of Mr.. Roosevets-joined.
But for this flibuster might have had at least
year ago the ships required to defeat the submarine
The selectve draft, ships and aerOplanes having
been provided the Hearst newspapers next petitoned
Congress for temperance during the war;; to sop+the
use of foodstuffs for making whisky. This legislation
was accomplished in sixty days. but the Hearst
had been making sustained fight against whisky for
five years.
news editorials and cartoons were published IN the
Hearst papers alone.
Many thousands of posters on the Liberty Loan,
drawn by Hearst cartoonsts, were posted in all the
great cities of the country. One of them published
May a. 1917, effective that R. W Woolley di-
rector of publicity of the Treasury Department. Wash
Bank in the United States-77O0 in number-and they
furnished free.
"Your work deserved unmeasured commendation,"
wrote the Governments Director of Publicity
To aid recruiting to the navy, the marines and the
volunteer army, the Hearst newspapers created and
manned recruiting stations in the principal cities of the
In New York City MORE THAN HALF of the en-
lisments were made at New York American stations.