New-York tribune., 1918-07-17
His Publications Are kep,
Out of City by System
Of Licensing
Publishers Agents
Fail to Get Permits
Old Dealers Refuse to Han
die Either "American"
or "Journap'

ENGLEWOOD, N. j., July 16.-The
town of Englewood is closed to the
newspapers of William Randolph
Hearst. Beginning tomorrow morn
ing any one found selling "The Ameri-
can or "The Evening Journal" within
the limits Of this community will be
arrested and fined, under the terms of
the ordinance adopted unanimously by
the town council two weeks ago, which
went into effect last night.
Englewood is the second town to
officially Danish the Hearst publica-
tions. 1t followed in the pathway
blazed by Mount Vernon, but in a
somewhat different manner. Citizens
believe that Hearst will have no legal
redress for the way in which he has
been handled here.
The history of Englewood's fight
against Hearst and his works extends
back for nearly a month. Its climax
was reached this evening, when the
ordinance was put into operation.
Licenses Refused to Hearst Men
By the terms of the ordinance. all
newsdealers in the community must
take out licenses. Those dealers who
have lived in the town two years or
more receive theirs automatically.
More recent importations must get the
of Police Elliott before they can sell
papers here.
Tonight the three Hearst agents in
the town, the sole venders of "The
American" and "The Evening Journal"
applied for licenses along with the
other dealers. The other dealers got
theirs without question. Licenses were
refused to the Hearst men.
Four weeks ago local newspaper
dealers refused to sell any more
Hearst papers. This was not the re-
suit of combination of dealers or
other citizens. The newspaper venders
reached their decision individually and
without any prompting except their
own feeling of patriotism
Hearst at once got busy. He tried
threats at first, and predicted that if
the dealers did not recede from their
stand they would be run out of bust
ness by his men. This had no effect
upon the Englewood newspaper sellers
Hearst then sent his own agents into
the town.
Two of them confined their opera
tltns to boosting Hearst papers and
un A<rselling Englewood dealers on the
Sunday editions of all New York
papers: Englewood men got eight
cents for the Sunday papers. Hearst's
emissaries charged seven.
Undersold Popular Dealers
The third invader proceeded to
harass the town dealers by starting a
stationery, tobacco, candy and news
paper store, in which all of the arti
cles that the Englewood dealers sold
were offered at prices on which it was
impossible to make any profit. He
tried to ruin the towns newspaper
Nenders by selling chewing gum at 3
instead of cents and making similar
reductions on all other articles.
BY hls tactics he closed Englewood
to Hearst's publications. The Town
Council met, considered the complaints
of the local dealers, who said thew
were being driven out of business my by
the interloper, and drafted an ordi-
nance.
Ihls ordinance makes no mention of
Hearst. 1t merely states that in order
to protect citizens of Englewood from
being driven out of business bv ruth
less price cutters, hereafter ali news
paper dealers must take out licenses.
1t is framed only to protect the local
dealer. But it drives out the vender
of Hearst papers.
Mayor Blake issued instructions to
Chief of Police Elliott tonight order
ing him to arrest any one found in
Englewood tomorrow selling news
papers without license. The Hearst
dealers have no licenses. That is how
EngleWOOd has turned out Mr. Hnornt