Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-09
AMEXFO STAFF
WILL PUBLISH
new MAGAZINE
The Home Sector VIII be Issued By
Editorial Force Of The Stars
and Stripes.

The former editorial council of
the Stars and Stripes, official news
paper Of the American expedition
AIRY forces, which suspended publ
cation in June with the disbanding
OF the a E. F., has returned to
America and will conduct a new
weekly magazine for the discharged
soldier and sailor to be known as
the Home Sector.
The council includes six former
soldiers-fve pr1vates and a SER
geant-who went to France in 1917
and were detailed to work on the
A. z. F. newspaper in the month Of
its founding, February, 1918.
The Stars and Stripes announced
in its anniversary issue that at the
end Of the war it would be folded
up and laid away, never to be taken
out again" It's name was dedi-
Gated to the A E. F. and to the
allied cause. To commemorative a
title thus consecrated would have
been, in the opinion Of the editors,
equivalent to dragging the flag in
the dust. General PershinP. Secre-
tary Baker and other high army
officials are known to be strongly
opposed to any attempt to COM
mercialize the name, and the Stars
and Stripes promised its soldier
readers that it would die with the
A. z. F.
The men who will compose the
Home Sectors editorial staff are
Harold w. Ross OF San Francisco,
formerly managing editor of the
Stars and Stripes, who will be edi-
tor Of the new publication; John
TVfnFaT4oJ, ~ EHr4n1AaJ1
news editor Of the Stars and
Stripes; Alexander WoolIcott of
New York, chief correspondent at
the front for the Stars and Stripes;
Hudson Hawley OF Hartford, Conn,
who wrote virtually all Of the first
three issues; Y. lie Roy Baidridge,
STAFF artist of the Stars and Stripes,
who has been called the greatest
American artist Of the war, and
Albian A. Wallgren (Wally) Of
Philadelphia, whose comic cartoons
made him the best known enlisted
man in the A. E. F. With these six
will be associated other members
of the soldier-nevspaper's organic
ation-an outfit which, with it's
field agents who many times deliv-
cred papers to the front lines I'M
der fire, its circulation department,
its service department and ether
branches included a personnel of
about 200 men.
Opens With 10000.
The Stars and Stripes began its
career with a circulation Of 10000
copies. Less than a year later its
circulation had reached $4,000, a
new record for growth in the his
tory Of journalism. At this time the
paper was "rationed' to the SOL
diers, only one man in three in
company or other Unit being allow
ed to subscribe. It was only at the
beginning of this year that the
Stars and Stripes received print
paper from America; before that it
had TO depend on the generosity of
the French press bureau, which had
only scant quantities at its dis
posal.
In addition to serving the A. E.
F with news and keeping the scat
tered American units from the
Thurman coast TO Italy in touch with
one another, the Stars and Stripes
maintained a French war orphan
fund to which 450,0 soldiers con-
tributed 100000 francs, enough to
adopt" and maintain $500 French
children for year, operated ser
vice department for soldiers in the
field which answered 10000 ques-
tions pertaining to allotments, in
surance, pay, and thousands of 9TH
er problems, printed 500 poems
written by soldiers-and rejected
20,90O.
The Stars and Stripes made
profit of $4,000 francs in it's 16
months of life. 1t had been intend
ed to turn this over to the French
war orphan fund for the further
care Of the A. Z. F.'s family of
fatherless French children, but the
judge advocate of the A. e. F. de-
cided that the funds belonged to
the government and must revert
to the United States treasury. A
bill is now pending in congress,
based on a petition of the editorial
council, to appropriate the profits
of the paper to the future care of
war orphans.
The Home Sector will be publish
ed at Spring and Macdougal streets,
New York. It plans to make an
equal appeal to the men who gerv-
ed in France, the men who served
at home, and the men who were in
the navy.
Service Department.
A service department and infor- F!
nation bureau will be maintained |