The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-06-08
Mr.. Hearst Answers Colonel Roosevelt;
Suggests Jc;1t Debate at Proper Time

r-.leipal cities OF the Union.
In New York City MORE THAN HALF of
he enl;stments were made az New York Ameri-
can stations.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels sent, un-
solicited, a dispatch saying:
Your cooperation in bringing the job and the
man together has rendered the navy opportune and
Important assistance.
Food control, the next great issue on the
war programme, divided the country and Con-
gress.
The Hearst papers, and I personally, urged
ONE.MAN CONTROL, instead of a commission
Of three.
On July "a, 1917, in a signed statement in
my newspapers, I said:
The President desires one man, instead of a
commission of three, to exercise the rovers of food
control conferred by the Food bill. The President
is right. x :
The clause Which requires the appointment of a
commission of three, instead of a single individual,
to control promptly and Effectively the food sup
plies for our country and our allies is a mistake
and should be stricken from the bill.
individual authority and responsibility make
for aIacrity and efficiency in public service.
After two months Congress passed the bill
putting Mr.. Hoover in sole control of food.
The President S War Message, later his Re-
ply 10 tIG EOpc, dlO III OOCA hA0 0~J
Proclamation were greeted by the Hearst papers
as "historic documents that should be pre-
served"
They were published in colors on calendered
paper and more than 100,0 600 copies of each
were distributed free.
The Government departments, Department
of Education, New York Public Library and the
Y. M. G. A. asked for more than 10000 copies
of these art reprints for their various branches,
and these, like all the others, were furnished
free.
Marshal Joffre's visit to the United States
was in a handsome volume,
bound in vellum and mounted in gold and en-
amel, containing the photographs, speeches and
descriptive accounts of his visit, and souvenirs
of many cities
This volume, officially accepted by the
French Commission, was presented to- Field
Marshal Joffre in the presence of his staff in
Paris by General Pershing in behalf of the
Hearst publications.
To promote the Second Liberty Loan the
Hearst newspapers devoted 1926 columns of
news, editorials and cartoons, and to aid the
Third Liberty Loan the Hearst papers devoted
1910 columns of news, editorials and cartoons.
The subscriptions of the Hearst publications
and employees to the Liberty loans have been
over half a million dollars; their contributions
to the Red Gross have been over fifty thousand
dollars.
In all these matters the Hearst newspapers.
doing right as God gives US to see the right,
have tried to be the most vigilant agents of the
public interest by their ACTS as well as by
words.
Of Mr.. Roosevelt and others like him, who
find unpatriotic occupation in denouncing the
Administration, and who seem more interested
in their personal ambitions and political preju-
dices than they are in winning the war, would
like to ask the plain question:
What haze you done to give you the right to
criticisc the Administration and its splendid
achievements, or to justify you in assuming
perior virtue and value to the Hearst papers,
Which haze consistently supported the Administra-
ton and conscientiousiy endeaUored in every D0y
to help the Government WLn the Wor!
AS far as I can see, MIR. Roosevelt has done
nothing but savagely and sensationally attack
the President of the United States and his
Cabinet during this critical war period, and has
done this for partisan political purposes-and,
what is worse, for pay.
AS far as I can see, one of the main objects
of MIR. Roosevelt latest furious attack upon
the Administration was to aid and advertise
those magazines and newspapers which pay
him and support him, and to reflect upon those1
magazines and newspapers which do not hire
him or admire him.
AS far as I can see, no matter what the
motive of these continued attacks may be,
whether it be partisan and personal, or well
intended and merely misguided, the result can
only be harmful to our Government, harmful to
the spirit of our people, harmful to the morale
of our armies, harmful to our country and our