New-York tribune., 1918-04-22
Mrs. @. c. Field To-day to
Demand That Hylan State
Attitude in Campaign
Canvass Also to Begin
Business Men To Be Requested
to Withhold Advertising
From Alien Papers

Mayor Hvlan will get a chance to-
day to declare himself on the German
language newspaper question.
Mrs. Oliver Cromwell Field, in charge
of the campaign to suppress German
publications, announced yesterday that
she would call on the Mayor this after
noon with a fiat demand that he CO.
operate in this patriotic undertaking.
Mrs. Field also will start canvass of
the big news distributing agencies and
OF the advertisers upon whom the Ger
man papers chiefly depend for support.
"This campaign is only beginning"
she said. "'f any one supposes our eff
forts are to be confined to talking he
is very much mistaken.
"fhe suspension of Mr.. Hearsts Ger
man organ, the New Yorker Deutsches
Journal is merely one evidence of the
strength our movement is gaining.
Hackensack and Oyster Bay have all
ready taken action. Other towns
throughout Jersey and in New York
are similarly preparing to stamp out
these mediums of enemy propaganda.
To-day have just received word that
vigorous campaign is to be launched
in Mount Vernon.
NO Politics in Campaign
Before we arc through we intend to
put every German language paper out
of existence. There is no excuse for
their continuance. and it behooves this
city and this administration above all
others to come out officially and say So"
That there is no sort of political in
tent in her determination to win an eX-
preston from Che Mayor in this matter
Mrs. Field was emphatic in declaring.
ut is simply q straight out -and-out
issue of pure Americanism," she said.
''Personally, my political connections
have always been on the Democratic
side"
Mrs. Field holds that advertisers who
give business to German papers simply
encourage un-Americanism. and it is on
This ground that she will make her first
plea to them to-day.
While Mrs. Field is thus engaged.
squads of distributors are to-day going
out through the city with placards
bearing the legend: "This is patriotic
newsstand. We do not sell newspapers
or magazines printed in German or
other enemy alien tongues"
TO Invade German Districts
"In a day or two,'' she said, 1--WE in.
tend to start in with the newsstands in
the strongly German region that ex-
tends along Third Avenue from Four
teenth to Eighty-sixth Street, and with
those on the East Side. These are the
places that minister to the hotbeds of
German sympathy. The only way to
break them up is to throw a ceaseless
spotlight on their activities"
Other German papers show no signs
of following in Hearst's footsteps. On
the contrary, they are firm in their
declarations that they will continue
publication.
"Thc German papers fulfil an inn
portant and necessary function in
American life" said Bernard Rdder,
editor of the "Staats-Zeitung." 81 do
not think Mrs. Field quite realizes the
situation. There are thousands Of
persons in this country who do not
speak English. Many of the older Ger
man immigrants to this country como
into this class. The only way to teach
these people American principles and
ideals is through the German language
papers. That is what we arc doing"