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The Benson signal., 1919-11-08
LOCAL ITEMS

Ieen spending the week at the
State Fair at Phoenix,
Don't forget the big Thanks
giving dance, Thursday, Novem-
Der 9th, at the Auditorium.
Mr.. H. G.. Brown and daughter,
Miss Evelyn, left Sunday to attend
the State Fair at Phoenix.
The Ladies Aid of the Metho
odist Church met with Mrs. ]. n.
Morrison Thursday afternoon.
Miss Sophie Doll is visiting her
cousin, Mrs. Steve Roemer, in
Phoenix, and attending the State
Fair.
Rev. DR.. A. w. Atkinson, dis
trict superintendent. will preach in
the Methodist Church tomorrow
evening at 7:3o- The public gen
orally is cordially invited.
7. H. Meadows and family have
moved into one of the Ashburn
houses on Fifth street. Mr.. Mea-
dows is first trick operator for the
Southern Pacific.
Miss Nodia Billet of B;sbee, is
spending the week end here with
her cousin, Miss Eddye Johnson.
Miss Johnson entertained the bridge
club in honor of her guest last
evening
Seventeen carloads of cattle were
shipped from the Benson yards
during the past week. Several diff
ferent stockmen were represented
in the shipment, which went to
Texas BUYERS.
F. E Clayton, former clerk to
Roadmaster Allen, has been made
assistant foreman of extra gang
No. 10, now working at Cochlse
Mr.. Clayton will make thorough
study of track work.
Messrs. Meriwether & Mowbray
photographers, took two views of
the town from Oil Tank Hill Tues
day. They also took the railroad
station and a street view. Anv-
body wishing any of these views
can get them at the studio, in the
Signal building.
G. +. Goetz returned Wednes-
day from San Francisco, where he
had been on a week S business trip.
Mr.. Goetz, who is interested in the
new creamery, while in the coast
city took occasion to look over and
get specifications and prices on
creamery appliances and supplies.
E. T. Carey of Tucson, is new
clerk to Roadmaster 7. A. Allen,
in place Of F. E. Clayton, who has
transferred to another branch OF
service of the company. The new
cterk, young Mr.. Carey, is from
Kansas City, coming to Arizona
last spring. He likes this country
and climate.
Montague L. Reed, two or three
years ago located at this place as
immigration inspector, was in town
on Saturday last on a short visit.
Mr.. Read is now a dry farm
homesteader, with a claim in Gov
ernment Draw, near Lewis Springs
upon which he expects to make
final proof in a short time.
Mrs. "A. A. Castaneda returned
the latter part of last week from
Los Angeles, Cal. where she had
been on a visit of two or three
months with relatives. She was
accompanied home by her son
Alfonzo, who went on from here
to Nogales, where he has accepted
position with a mercantile finn.
Mr.. w. ]. Page, of St. David,
presented the Signal editor with {
nice lot Of fine tasting red apples
grown on his place. They woulc
we'll serve as pretty strong evl-
dence that q first class apple CAN be
The Benson signal., 1919-11-08
strands IN Danger

ONLY about half the stockmen Of
the State have re-reCorded their
brands with the State Live Stock
Sanitary Board as yet. Less than
two months remain in which they
can insure for themselves the own
ership of old time brands ANY brand
not re-recorded by December 18th
is open for use and will belong to
the first man who records it as re-
quired by law.
According to Secretary Ed. w.
Stephens of the Live Stock Sani-
tary Board, the re-recording of
brands has been increasing in vol
ume steadily. At the same time, a
very large portion of the live brands
are still unrecorded. Should the
owners overlook their duty too long
there is a possibility that designing
individuals may record these brands
in their own names. The present
owners, with stock running under
the brands would then find them
selves what might prove to be very
serious complications, if not actual
loss.
Orders have been sent all Live
stock Inspector in the Department
to notify all stockmen as far as they
can of the necessity of re-recording
their brands and to warn them o.
the time remaining in which they
may protect their rights to owner
ship. In this. way, the Live Stock
| Sanitary Board hopes to reduce tc
a minimum the mum Der of brands
in actual use and not as yet re
recorded.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

can feeling. 1t is still blandly wondering
why the scheme has not succeeded.
The same weakness, the naive egotism to
the view Of which all things German must
be right and must succeed, the crooked and
blind chauvinsm so carefully cultivated by
the Reptile among its own subjects at home
shows through the long list of its failures
in America Bernstorff writes bitterly when
he discovers that the subsidies to a Reptile
press which work so perfectly at home will
not work here Dernburg departs in stupe-
fed amazement when he finds that America
will not tolerate his defence of the Lusi-
tania massacre. Zimmerman offers Mexico
some of our Southwestern states. and the
Reptile laments "awkwardness." The sub
marine piracy brings America into the war
with deciding weight, and Prince Karl
merely disapproves the submarine war. be-
cause it was started without sufficient as
surance of success.
There are other correlated traits of the
Reptiles brain. 1t concocts the most gran
dose schemes seeks to start wars, control
elections, seduce France. 1t even does sue
ceed in partly wrccking Italian morale It
Is mark for adventurers, who, our secret
service men testify, practically swindled il
out Of millions, giving little of real value
in return. 1t fails, as Prince Karl also re-
marked, "to appreciate the points of view
of other nations In short, the Reptile
being product Of supermen, does not un-
derstand mankind
The usual Teutonic traits also show
everywhere in the Reptiles record. With
all its grandose schemes it pinched the
pennies, and there is correspondence as to
the adyisabilty of spending SIS. 1t trusted
nobody, and insisted on frequent and de-
tailed reports from every one-a single
agent here permitted $4,000 papers to fall
into American hands! 1t was, as has been
SO often remarked, naturally and naTvely
dishonest 1t was laborious to the extreme,
careful, meticulous and methodical 1t dis
regarded all obligations and duties. 1t
tried very, very hard to play safe
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

do is to make the United States an ally of
Germany by twist of world politics Eng
land, allied with Japan, cannot be her
friend-who else but Germany"
The plan is to start trouble in California,
depending the Hearst papers to play it
up The idea is then to be pushed by THE
illustrated Sunday Magazine whose editor
Hiram NJ. Greene, Fox says. can be in
fuenced. There are to be movie films, one
act vaudeville plays, lectures, all possible
forms of publicity, and all -Japanese.
When the public mind is thus prepared, play
the trump with serious trouble on the Paci-
&c Coast Hire thugs to start riots; get Will
lam J. Burns to control the officials of the
state; stir UP the ministers to denounce
the japanese. They would rush to do this,
Fox declares, "especialy if some outrages
against women were planted 1t would be
an easy matter for Burns to use some
young and innocent prostitutes to the det-
rimenc of the Japs.'
The records Of two other subsidized cor
respondents have been laid bare One of
these is Colonel Edward Emerson, who went
over as free lance and wrote also for the
notorious Continental Times" the Reptiles
organ on the Continent. The other was
James F. J. Archibald who gave the German
embassy here receipt for $4,000, and who
was detected by the British in trying to
smuggle through letters from Reptile agents
here, including letter from Ambassador
Dumba, of Austria Hungary, which resulted
in the ambassadors recall.
Another writer who was employed by the
Reptile, though far less for his open in
huence than for his secret sources of in
formation was Major j. j. Dickinson. The
majcr is an oldtme Washington newspaper
man, with wide and intimate acquaintance
with public officials He was engaged to
write letters, which he did under the name
of Josiah Wingate, to Vierick In these he
gave what was supposed to be inside in
formation to the attitude Of the admin
istration. on questions in which Germany
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
SGW Poisoning
The News

The most striking feature Of the second
phase of the Reptiles life hcrc-and it is "a
feature that will never disappear from its
work so long as there is newspaper or a
writer that can be corrupted-was the de-
filing and werping OF the sources Of infor-
nation, the poisoning OF the facts as we'll
as the editorial advice which American
public opinion is based. 1t used with the
utmost skill every secret means OF publicity
known TO it. 1t developed and expanded
every effort along this line attempted dur
ing the first phase, except that Of subsidlz-
ing small publishers. which had failed be-
cause 1t could not be kept secret
Tho attempt to control supposedly Amer
ican newspapers had been cardinal point
Of the Reptiles policy from tho first II
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
Prince Kari
Regrets

Lieutenant General Prince Karl of Hohcn-
zollcrn has expressed this perfectly while
trying to clear his own skirts According
to The Associated Press, 'thc prince said
that he personally disapproved of subma-
rne warfare and bombing by means of aero
planes He asserted that Germany should
not have started her submarine warfare
nlthout being absolutely certain that 1t
2oould succeed Prince Karl said he re-
GREETED that the German propaganda in the
United States had been carried out in what
he termed clumsy manner Germany, he
declared, should have started her propa-
ganda on larger scale and spent millions
whore she spent thousands"
There spoke the Reptiles mind, So
throughout the democracy propaganda that
mind could not see that President Wilson'S
distinction between the German people and
their government was an attack on German
morale, and not expression of American
opinion. That mind missed the "animositv,"
and so it has satisfied the shadow but not
the substance, of American thought, and
has failed even to attempt to satisfy Ameri-
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
Selling Out
Won Papen

Edward Lyell Fox got to Germany before
Hale dld as the correspondent of the Wild
man Syndicate, apparently innocent in the
deal, and with relations with the Hearst
papers which resulted in his working very
closely with the Hearst organization. as
well as with the German propagandists in
Berlin. lie wrote articles from Berlin
which Captain Lester characterized as pure
iakes,' a notable one being q description
OF alleged Russian atrocities, sent for the
purpose of offsetting the German atrocities
in Belgium. This was published in "The
New York American" under the papers own
copyright. He spent several months in
Germany, making two trips and being
stopped on third, and providing pure pro-
German propaganda and nothing else
Ills other activities were also numerous.
He tried to sell the British Secret Service
one batch of information he brought from
Germany. He also tried to get market tips
from Won Papen, the German military at
tache But his most notable performance
was the preparation of memorandum on
scheme to cause war between America and
Japan. This memorandum was prepared and
passed to Won Papen shortly after Foxs re-
turn from Germany. where he had several
mysterious conferences with high officials
lie told people here that at these confer
ences some secret scheme of his had been
substantially approved. He has since de-
med that there was any serious purpose be
hlnd the memorandum, claiming that it was
prepared by himself and Dr. Karl Armigard
Graves, former German international spy
with the hope that they could make some
money from the Reptile on it,
The memorandum is over 900 words in
length, going into considerable detail. Fox
stated the object of the plan to be "the
termination of the United States manu-
iacturers supplying the Allies with ammu-
nltlon and other munitions of war If car
r'ed through there is second and Incl
dental soal-the loss to Japan of the Ger
man colonies that she now holds
Fox points out that America Is sus-
plclous of Japan, that relations have been
strained, and that it will not be difficult to
arouse public opinion again. "'rhe thing to
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
that has been revealed-that for "The New
York Evening Mal'-was put through
Eyes On
Hearst

The matter was discussed extensively
with Count Won Bernstorf, the Reptiles
head at a house party in the Adrondacks
the following Christmas, according to a
New York broker. whose deposition was
submitted. Only parts Of the deposition
were published, but these outline very sue
clnctly the Reptiles scheme. They follow:
Q.-Tell us just what was said on that
(the German view being put before the
public in the papcrs) as we'll as you can
rocolect it,
Ave talking Of the New York
papers, and l made the remark that most
Of our papers here were very high-minded.
For instance, if you wanted to put out a
security of new corporation which was
not tried out, and you should give "The New
York Sun" an advertisement conditionally
upon there being a news item in their finan-
cial column, which is worth more than any
advertisement, they wouldn't do it without
a thorough investigation, and they would
notify you that if their advertisement de-
pended on that you couldn't get it in. and
| remarked that there were only two papers
IN New York City that believed could be
bought, and those were the Hearst papers
and "The Mail"
Odd he express a desire to get into
some paper?
A.-Yes, he thought it was absolutely
necessary.
Q-What did he say about Hearst?
Al am leading up to that
Fart of deposition excluded He
said have to have somebody to put our
news in the way we want it.
Q.-Had you mentioned "The American"
or "The Journal?
Al mentionedNthe Hearst papers mar
tlcularly, and he said that he had had his
eye on Hearst as an available man. and
came away with the distinct impression
that he expected to see Hearst. and whom
] saw that Hearst was publishing German
paper | mentioned it later to the count. and
SAID: y guess you got to those fellows
and he said; "Well, it's working all right.
isn't it?"
Q.-When was this subsequent convcrsa-
tion7
A.-Oh, about n year later.
Tho scheme to put Mcclure at tho head Of
big news organization was mentioned in
the previous article. This cropped IN
again, according to letter from Vicrcck.
dated April Is, 1916, to DR.. Albert. He
wrote:
DR. Rumcly has told in Chicago
and other places the following story:
That official Germany Is interested in
backing newspaper to be edited by Mcclure
Inc money Is to be obtained by getting f,f-
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
All for
$40 Per

The curious thing about the Wingate
letters IS this" testified Captain Lester
They give accurate information of happen
lngs in Cabinet and government circles
Where this information came from I do not
know, but the letters have all been checked
with subsequent events, and it is quite
obvious that in certain cases information
was obtained from some source or other. He
had backdoor entrance somewhere"
All this the Reptile got for $40 week.
In addition to these subsidized Americans,
the Reptile used two other means of influ-
encing American news, besides the blame
less one of being nice to American CORE
spondents and newspaper men in general.
The first of these was to send over from
Germany men who seemed to be corre-
spondents of German newspapers, but we're
really agents of the government These
men interviewed American officials, wrote
for American papers and magazines when
possible, and sent home news dispatches
which were sometimes little different from
official reports.
The other means was by the control of
the sources of news in Germany, and the
doctoring of news sent from there. It con-
trolled the semi official Wolff Bureau. an
organization something like The Associated
Press III this country, except that it spoke
for the government. 1t controlled also the
Overseas News Agency, whose wireless dis
patches for long time formed one of the
chief sources in America of news as to ham
pcn1ngs IN Germany. This bureau was not
semi-offcal; the Reptile used it to dis
seminate lies for which it did not want to
stand sponsor
There were other organs for putting out
keptlllan news. The War Department Press
bureau issued Foreign News Sheet" A
"Bulietn' was sent out from the FOREIGN
Office. The War Department also got out =
War Chronicle" published in many Ian
guages for the benefit of the foreign cor
respondents IN Berlin. There was a supnos
edly private service, Reptile owned, known
as tho "Trans-ocean Correspondence. There
was also the "Politcal Correspondspco &c
Central Europe" published in many Ian.
guages. German newspapers notably thc
Berlh "Iagcblatt' and the "Vossischezei-
tung, also sent correspondence and SIM.
posed news service abroad. FINALLY thore
were the German supported papers~the
notorious continental Times" which called
itself n journal for Americans Abroad
and lnduged in the most absurd German
propaganda abroad; the "Gazette des Arden
nes," published in French. and des;g,od :.
m's'cad and corrupt the people in tho terri
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
A Newspaper
To Let

This had been caused by the death of
John X. Mclean, its owner, and the inheri-
tance Of the property by his son. The CON
nection Of "The Washington Post" under
the elder Mclean with the Reptile is
not entirely clear Under date of Octo-
Der II, 1914, Bernstorf wrote to Albert:
"'The Washington Post was offered me
to-day to buy for $2O00,O0O with inten
ton to buy it back again after the war
for Sl,500,000 A second offer was to nut
the paper entirely at our disposal for
two months for 100000. The paper is Of
Importance and the only large newspaper
IN the capital How do you stand on the
question of the money? | have not vet in
quired in Berlin"
The only other information nlaced hofora
the committee was from reports bv Rern-
storff and DR.. Fuehr, in which they spoke
Of "The Posts" aid to the cause. Rern-
storff, on October 27, 1916, wrote tho For
elgn once: We were deploring the death of
"r' 'ohh ~ Mclean. The latter had given
ms newspaper an entirely anti-English
character, so that his death left great qan
which The National Courier can. unfor-
tunately, never hope TO fill. The Washing
ton Post has since been fairly neutral hnt
may be entirely lost to us if it cannot. &c 10
very desirable, be put into the hands Of Mr.
Hearst"
The Reptile bought newspaper writer's 81,
we'll as newspapers. Two of the outstanding
instances of this-the hiring of William
bayard Hale and Edward Lycll Fox-have
been referred to in connection with othar
matters. Their "news" correspondcnce f,r-
nlshcs one of the most startling cbantars
IN the Reptiles history
Hale was the biggest of these subsidized
writer's He had been getting $4,000 a
year before the war, the testimony shows
ana was employed by the Reptile for S15.-
ooo lie had written a life of Wilson and
occupied confidential posts for him. and tho
"ernans had hopes Of getting to the Prosi-
dent through him. He spent moro than
year as editor Of the German press apcnt
sheet, and then was sent to GERMANY %
write for the Hearst papers, though n cable
message from Bernstorif declares he ,vas nm
der contract with Germany. to run tin limo
lAlS Bcrnstorn also says that Uoarst d;d
not know Halo an employe of tho Ron
tllc. Hearst, who usually kceps in touch
WIN the most minute details of tho work
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

vas willing to spend great sums for this
purpose, and it was ceaselessly feeling
about to find some sheet that would sell out.
Besides money it offered to newspapers
every advantage that it could command
news service, pictures, exclusive privileges.
1t is probable that there is not newspaper
in America, big or little, that has not been
approached within the last four years by
some agent of the Reptile.
The first notice of these newspaper plans
that has come to The attention of the secret
service, according to the testimony before
the Ovcrman committee, was a letter from
George Sylvester Niereck to DR.. II. f. AL
bert, the propaganda chief on October -,
1914 shortly after the war began He urged
the purchase of paper, to be edited 'as
any other Amcrican paper is edited, but in
fused with strong German spirit
Thcrc should be, he wrote, in handling the
editorial page, "a clear understanding that
closest relations with Germany are to the
advantage Of the United States" Further
"there should be an intimate connection be-
tween the German Foreign Office and the
German Embassy here and some one CON
nected with the newspaper in question:"
Mr.. Nicreck volunteered for this job He
pointed out that it would be necessary to
own stock control of the paper, and sug-
gested that the paper be published by some
enc con whom you car rely, and in whose
name the stock can be held" It is inter
esting to notice how closely these sugges-
tions were followed out when the one deal
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
Cermanys Moves and Vaccinations TO Acquire
American Newspapers To Spread Propaganda,
Disclosed TO the Senate Committee

teen groups of people to put up S15o00o
each. Mr.. Rosenburg Of Sears, Eocbuck &
Co. has already put up $4,000. One OF
the effects of his propaganda is that "The
Mail" which Dr. Schweitzer could have OBJ
tanned for $1,250,000 has put up its
price to 81 800 600"
1t was about this time that Alexander
Konta wrote to DR.. Dernburg long letter.
outlining the newspaper situation in New
York, and suggesting a combination of in
terests between the Reptile and the brew
ers for publicity purposes.
From this time on the correspondence Of
the Reptile both here and abroad is full of
discussion Of newspaper deals. Meanwhile,
there was steady activity toward the pur-
chase of papers. Some time in 1915
Captain Lester, of the military inteli-
gencc division, testified, Marshall Kelly
was sent to Baltimore to attempt to buy
"Thc Sum there. This failed In Febru-
ary 1916, Samuel Untermycr wrote to DR..
Albert that an agent of his had found an
opportunity open to buy control of "The
New York Sum- for less than $4,000, 900,
and suggested joint deal, by which GER
tain friends Of Untermyer's would get CON
troll of the paper after the war. This also
fell through. But the purchase Of "The
New York Evening Mail" in the name of
Or. Edward Rumely, was put through, the
price being about 100000, and the gen
cral lines of Nicreck's scheme being fol
lowed. Also there was considerable activity
in getting to small papers, and the names of