Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-06-11
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| ~ iSiHdThdpie STORY IS tOlO Oh gTeeO
and selfish unpatriotic policy on the
part of large newspapers in Boston,
Mass, controlled in their editorial
| policies by sordid interests in the bus
mess office. 1t is told to the world by
| Sinclair Kennedy OF Brookiine, Mass,
who had attempted to promote the sale
of war savings stamps by the publica-
| ton of ads in the Boston newspapers
at his own expense. His ads contained
! copy which quoted President Wilson,
! secretary McAdoo and the great
banker Mr.. vanderlip urging the
people of the nation to practice econ
| omy and thrift The Boston Post,
which boasts of the largest circuula-
ton of any morning newspaper in
| America, refused the ads, The Boston
Herald accepted them then cancelled
them and returned the money. 1t Is
presumed that the department store
| advertisers were opposed to having a
campaign of thrift promoted in Boston
even if it We're necessary to win the
war.
The result, as Mr.. Kennedy clearly
points out in his circular to the news
papers Of the country, is that Massa
chusetts stood thirty-fourth from the
top on her war savings campaign with
only So cents per capita invested in
stamps as compared to s1106 per
capita for Nebraska With immense
ship yards in that state and munition
factories in almost every town the
Boston newspaper publishers are de-
lTberately seeking to prohteer upon
the war wages of Massachusetts, people
while the middle west IS left to finance
the war.
The ad which was refused by the
Boston Post read as follows:
The president in his address to the
farmers, Jan. 81, 1918, said: 1T means
the utmost economy. even to the point
where the pinch comes. It means the
kind Of concentration and self sacrifice
which is involved in the field of battle
itself. where the object always looms
greater than the individual"
The secretary Of the treasury IN a
statement published in the official
bulletin, Dec. %, 1917. said THE
people of the United States can render
ice by refraining from the purchase Of
oil s,lo I,,n
fnins themselves to the use of only
such things and the expenditure OF
only such money as is necessary TO
maintain their health and efficiency"
The chairman Of the national war
savings committee, at the Boston
City Club, Dec. 8, 1917, said: THE gov
eminent should have a free track in
the workshop. It should have labor
which is not competed for by unn eces-
sary things. No matter how we'll we
can afford to buy unnecessary things
no matter how well we can afford to
do it, the government can not afford
to have US do it,
A bit OF local color for Marshall
county patriots is given to the incident
in the fact that this Boston man IN
his indictment Of the unpatriotic greed
Of the Boston newspapers finds in the
national Red Cross magazine a tribute
to the effect Of thrift campaign
which has been preached by the Times
Republican at the request Of the great
leaders OF this war. He hays:
The children OF Marshalltown, Iowa,
have got the idea. To the question
How can I help win the war;" they
gave, according 10 the Red Cross
Magazine, June 1918, such replies as
follow:
Go without candy and gum"
GO without a Christmas tree"
"save my clothes by not letting them
get torn
BE satisfied with what have"
Get along without cats and dogs.
They eat too much"
Save paper and supplies at school"
Teach others to be thrifty who do
not know how"
Always ask, when I buy anything,
Do really need that"
Darn my stockings as soon as there
is a tiny hole so it won't get larger"
Look over our scrap bags Tor cioth
that can be used for garments or
quilts"
Get along without teasing for
things"
Save gasolene."
do without valentines"
The newspapers Of Boston are not
great newspapers from an intellectual
standpoint They are published and
controlled from their business offices
To protect their advertisers they have
been urging people to buy literally and
to spend their war wages 80 as to
maintain business as usual. While the
liberty loan campaign was on various
advertisers urged people that:
There must be increased activity in