Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-19
CREEL'S ASSISTANT
DISAVOWS BULLETIN
President Responsible for
Public Information Bureau
Organ, Says DR.. Ford

on. no, George Crccl is not to blame
for the OmcnI Bulletin one Of Mr..
Creels assistants here last night shifted
responsibility to President Wilson him
self.
Mr. CreeI Is chairman Of the COM
mlttee on public Information The Of
fetal Bulletin Is the committees mouth
organ" Although some Of the informa-
ton 1t sCatters hrog iCasi is several
weeks old to newspape readers. vet the
oNlciaI Bulletin printed on good white
paper with first-class ink. is distributed
by The hundreds of thousands.
In some debating clubs It Is rumored
one OF the faVorite questions is:
Resolved. that the Congressional Rec
ord has more readers than the Official
Bulletin No pleblsCiic has been taken
on the question, however
The Official Bulletins secret was
r"Nca led last night in Witherspoon Hail
by pr. Guy Stanton Ford, professor Of
history at the University Of Minnesota,
and. during the war. the head Of the
division of publications Of Mr. Creers
committee.
i Know said the doctor, with smile
that the general impression is that Mr..
CreeI is responsible for the publCHtio of
the Bulletin But ! also know he opposed
its publication and that the President
insisted on II. Every time that Mr.
reel sees copy he just groans and
hings up his hands in despair"
The Bulletin has ocCasoned lot of
criticism" Doctor Ford continued, but
recently we made a price of s. year
on the publication, n prohibitiye price, so
that the public would be constrained not
to purchase the Bulletin. But. strangely
enough nj Sc year. we have received
from 1000 to 10000 subscriptions. and
many OF them from the very newspa per
men who were the lOudesL TO cOnden,na-
ton of the publication"
Doctor Ford related in detail the
girdling of the globe by the agents of
the committee on public information,
from BuenOs Aires TO NladivostOk and
Archangel. There is hardly a capital
any neutral or Allied country where
a representative of this organization Is
not stationed 10 fight German propa-
Sanda on strange territory.
No organization connected with the
war has had a stormier career than the
committee on public information. Nor
has any body been 80 often reCited with
such mistnformatton and misappehen-
sion to its real mission and purpose
that the creation OF the committee will
be known as one Of the happy acts Gf
the President when the nation went to
war"
Doctor Ford also told of the tremen-
dous demands for copies of the Presi-
dent war message, which ran into be-
tween five and six millions. The de-
mands for the various publications of
Germany's own case against herself
and said that fully 100000 pamphlets
Of all descriptions had been sent broad
cast through this and other countries.
He also retailed the history OF the
film division with the $50 900 feet which
was sent to NladvOstoCk and the 800,
900 TO Mexico city. In this connection
Doctor Ford told of the tremendous
and subtitle change in our favor which
had been shown in the various countries
where German prOpa ganda fourishcd
before and during the first few months
of our participation in the war