New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

President declined to see him. They were
always proceeding Oh the assumption that
If they could get some one who could get
inside they could do something"
The List of Important Names" found
among the Fuehr papers shows how far the
Germans carried this effort to use Amcr-
cans. Some of the names arc OF men never
reached, and few are Of Germans. but
the majority, as Mr.. Belaski pointed out,
arc those which are familiar to us as hav-
ing been active for Germany. The list
follows:
Professor William r. Shepherd, Columbia
University; Professor Hugo Munsterborg,
Harvard University; Professor William NJ
Sloane Columbia University; Dr. Edmund
Won Mach, Harvard Universty DR.. Arthur
Won Briesen, 25 Broad Street, New York;
Professor John w. Burgess, Newport R. l.;
Professor Eugene Smith, Columbia Univer-
sity; Professor Herbert c. Sanborn. Van
derbit University; Professor James G. Nc
Donald, University of Indiana; Professor
Ferdinand Schevillc, University of Chicago;
L. c. Richardson, Princeton University;
Professor Kuno Francke, Harvard Univer-
sity; Professor George B. Mcclellan, Prince
ID.
nell; Professor Morris Jastrow, jr., Univcr-
sity of Wisconsin,; DR.. Walter Mcneil,
Richmond, Va; Professor David Starr Jor~
dan, ex-Judge Peter S. Grosscup, Congress-
man Richard Barthold, Professor Albert
Bushnell Hart, Harvard University Presi-
dent C. j. Hexamer of the German-Ameri-
can Alliance, Professor William P Trent
Charles Nage former Secretary Of Com
merce and Labor; Oswald Garrison Vii
lard, "New York Evening POST; William
Randolph Hearst, "New York Americanv;
Bernard Rdder, "New Yorker Stats lei
tung"; Edward A. Rumely. "New York
Evening Mail"; Frederick r. Schraeder New
York City; Frank Harris, "Pearson's Maga-
zine"; Rob !. Ford, "The Freeman's Jour
nal'; the Rev. Father Thierney, "American
Catholic Weekly; Max A Helm, New York
City, and George Sylvester Viereck.
The circulation of pro- German books
written by these and other men was one of
the largest of the early activities of Dr.
Albert. He even engaged Professor Edwin
John Clapp, CT New York University to
write one, at cost of some $4,000 The
book, of course, written for "us Ameri-
cans More than fifty such books got the
German support.
Pamphlets were also sent out broadcast
list of nearly a hundred was furnished
by Mr. Beask, and these range all the
way from frankly pro German arguments
by German writers to the most carefully
camoufaged "Americanism" few were:
Belgium and Germany: A Dutch View;
Germany of Today by George Stuart
Fullerton, Of Columbia University; The
Neutra Portion; "America's Relation to
the World War;" by John William Burgess,
formerly professor at Columbia, and so
forth
All these were printed in this country.
in addition, Captain Lester told how vast
quantities of pro-German literature were
actually sent from Germany for circulation
here. Part of this staff was used as the
basis for the propaganda written here. ana
Iarts were shipped to other countries.
There is evidence that enormous quantities
were sent into Mexico and some to the
Orient. Also, there were great quantities
of picture postal cards sent over, with car
toons and pictures clarifying Germany.
many of them indecently.
Another form of propaganda which was
got under way during this phase of the
work was the production OF films This
failed as commercial scheme, though it
mad a certain propagandist success Its
consideration belongs more properly with
the next phase of the Reptiles activities
SO, too does the work of the subsidized war
correspondents, like Hale and Fox, who
went to Germany in German pay. and of the
lecturers who went about the country with
addresses censored, if not prepared. in the
Reptiles Offices. All this activity was start
ed early in the war; but did not bear fruit
till later.
Starts were made, too, on the campaign
for the control of newspapers, and on the
propaganda among the Lutherans, the Irish
and the Jews, and also among laborers
These all reached their highest point dur
ing the succeeding phase of the prona-
ganda, and can best be viewed as whole
when that is reached. But three other
forms of activity along the line Of pub
lcity belong to the first phase
The first of these was the "workinr of
the pro German element on the anti Ger
man organs which was outlined in the min
utes of the propaganda committee alrcadv
quoted. This was widespread and ,ftcn cf-
foctivc. Throughout the cities where the
German element is large, and especially
where it ls intrenched in business. press-
urc was brought to bear on publishers to
an extent which almost Irresistible
The withdrawal of advertising, tho cutting
down of circulation. the threat to start