Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-05
PACKERS PLANNED GREAT
PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN
big Five" Were in Arrangement to
Spend Millions in "Edu-
cationaP' Effort.
FELL OUT OVER THE COST
Couldn't Agree as to Method OF APP
portioning Expense &C IN u
tagged" News Used to Discredit
Trade Commission.

CHICAGO. March An. "cduca-
tional" publicity campaign. involving
the expenditure of millions to onset any
III effects from the passage of tho Bor-
land investigation resolution In Con-
g.ess. was planned by the five largest
packers in 1916, according to Francis
j. Keney, special attorney for the Fed
eral Trade Commission Mr.. Heney said
this campaign, which provided for the
establishment of n STAFF of writer's OF
"punchy paragraphs" on behalf OF the
packers. fell through because the mem
bers of the big five" could not agree
on proportion CT expenses.
Details of the propa ganda plan were
revealed to-day when additional cor
respondence was read before Examiner
Basil NJ. Manley, of the commiss ion, by
Mr.. Heney
The latter declared another "educa-
t!onal" crusade was at present in force
to discredt the investigation of the
Federal Trade Commission. lie said
Swift & Co. last month contemplated
the expenditure of between s500.00o
and sl,0O0,000 in publicity TO reply to
disclosures brought out before the gov
ernment body.
COUNTRY PAPERS FLOODED
WITH MISLEADING ITEMS
He said that country newspapers are
being flooded with "camounaged news,
making it appear the packers are sub
jccts OF IL vitupcrative and unwarranted
attack
Examiner Manley charged that
Thomas j.. Logan. Washington cores
pondent for New York weekly and a
Philadelphia newspaper, was a conf
Dental "tipster'' at the capital for the
packers.
Details OF the order OF w. +. Priebe,
q packers employee, and a member OF
the food administration, whose order
wrecked the market for independent
dealers in poultry, WAS given by II. s.
Jones. an officer OF the Schweizer Com
mission Company. He intimated that
further Priebe decraes might give rise
10 n "Rolshcvikis.n among consumers
aad the independent poultry trade"
CRVrICIZES ACTION
AS TO FLOUR SUBSTITUTES
lie was also severe i'll his condemna-
ton Of the -four substitutes suggested
by the food administration.
Letters pnrporting to show how off,
cials OF Armour & Co., "nuctled up" to
get General T.. w. Plummcr's approval
of the permit TO construct branch ad-
joining the Camp Dodge missary
werc presented by Mr.. Henry, who de-
clarcd the relations between General
Plummer and Armour & Co. were more
serious than might be suspected from
the generals having received a package
OF scented soap from the company. as
a mark of It's esteem.
Advertising, however. was the big
subject Of the day. The pro rata eX-
pense calculations which fell through.
show Swift e. Co. as the largest
packers.
In anticipation of a siege OF national
and State cold storage legislation.
Swift & Co. as part of it's educa-
tional campaign, according to a letter
read by Mr.. IIeney, prepared to en-
ploy II. NJ Allen. who In 1902 was puro
food commissioner OF Kentucky.
There are five or six persons OF
controlling influence on this subject"
said the letter which was written to
Louis +. Swift. "all of whom. I believe.
intend to be fair and impartial. 7
have been endeavorlng to educate them
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