Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1920 — Page 10
THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1920.
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JOINT CONGRESSIONAL REPORT FLAYS CREEL AND OTHERS.
TRANSFER IS UNDER FIRE
In a report made public by Senator Smoot in connection with the transfer of the official bulletin to Roger W.
Rabson^ - ,
"This is one of Senator Smoots He*,” Creel declared, “and r one knows better than Senator Smoot
WASHINGTON. April 12 (by the
Associated Press).—A report made public here by Senator Smoot <Hep^ Utah), chairman, *nd Representative Kiess (Rep., Pa.), vice-chairman of the joint eongressfonal printing committee. recommends legal proceedings by the government against George Creel, former chairman of the committee on public information; Roger W. Babson. of Wellesley Hills. Mass., and others concerned in the transfer of the committee's war publication,
the Official Bulletin to Babson. The report declares that Babson
obtained the Bulletin in March, 1919. by ' secret connivance” with Creel and others “without the government receiving a coot in compensation.'* and urges thab suit he brought to
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obtain "just government.
ipensatjon” for the
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War Service Joe mala.
Numerous alleged abuses in government publications, including army and navy and other war service journals, are set out in the report. Many of these publications, it says, were used for propaganda favorable to the league of natioac, the liquor interests and officers In charge. Advertisements, the report asserts, included “get rich quick” oil speculations and political propaganda improper in gov-
ernment publications.
Another allegro abuse of government funds declared to eslst by the report was printing of 19,144,m speeches of federal officials at an expense of |4<2,Tt§ to the government. Paper consumed totaled 1.4*1,090
pounds. . -
Th* report says fhe committee, under Its power to supervise government printing, investigated 2M journals. magaxlnes and periodicals, and discontinued 114 at a saving of $1,209,000 annually. Bight army and navy newspapers and magazines were suppressed at a saving of $400,600.
No Desire «o Hamper.
“The comlniftcc had ho desire > whatever to hamper or discourage th# men of the army or navy In publication of their own magazines and newspapers.’ says the report. "In fact, it heartily w Indorses and approves such exprseoloii of Americanism Government controlled, censored or subsidised newspapers are utterly unAmerican. and the committee earnestly hopes this Prussian Idea wilt find
ao root hr favor here
Many of the war service publics
tions. the report <|
tablished largely for
cation of certain Interests and to provide comforters and safe places for a Urge number of men who found such occupation more congenial'than active service in the front line trenches ’ . "Another dgfewvagant publication * Issued by the (Teel committee," the report continues, “was the so-called national School Bervlce,” which was distributed free to teachers, fts underlying purpose, the report declares, •‘seems to have been to convert teach - ore to the idea of the league of nation* and to urge them to teach that
doctrine to thnjr school children."
Cltea Two PaMleatlons.
Regarding the arhiy and navy publications, th* report says that the Camp Merrill Utspatch and the Mess K»t were "conspicuous examples of the utter disregard of public funds by officers in charge.'* ;. "Ths Mess Kit.” the report says, “excelled sensational theatrical publications'* with pictures of fascinating girls and frolhy merature^ The ids! natch waawi^«wh« and more ly Illustrated than on* of popular woman’s national
that it is a- Jte. 1
“When the official bulletin was discontinued.” Creel said. *T asked the attorsey-genera! for permission to pm up its assets at public auction. There was a mailing list of about 1S.60O paid subscribers, the majority of these subscriptions unexplred. ‘To free the government of the exP« use and annoyance of returning the money. I thought it wise to sell ths property to the highest bidder. The atfcrney-general in writing, forbade me to do this, telling me that all, money must be returned, and that the j I mailing list .must be made available
to every citizen.
“I ordered the money returned and made announcement that any one could copy the mailing list who so desired. Babson availed himself of this permission. He received nothing at nil from the government. The whole trouble come* from the fact that some of Senator Smodt's friends wanted a copy of the mailing list furnished them at government expense. This I
refused to do.
“The whole incident is merely an excuse for Smoot to revenge-himself for my share in the Mormon expos-
ure. ■
‘Tie government wiped out the committee on public information. June 44. l»lt, right In the middle of its liquidation, but while every expense and annoyance has resulted to me the /in%l accounting is almost ready to be announced and expenditure of every
cent is set down.
“The entire work of the committee.
almost two years, both in
' " " ment resume publication of the bulletin. If the congress should not authorize such resumption, he said, he would not be “scared out” of the publishing field. Babson said that after the congress ordered the publication of th® official bulletin stopped in March. 1919, he believed that there was an opportunity for a publication of that kind which did not carry ad-
vertising.
T started the United States Bulletin. he continued, “an entirely new publication, which was a weekly, while the Official Bulletin was a
daily. The subscription price was different and it was wholly a private venture. It has never been a profitable venture and I have made several attempts to have congress continue the publication of the Official Bulletin and offered to give up the public cation of the United States Bulletin
if congress would do so.”
Babson said that he knew nothing about the reported transfer, of the mailing list of the Official Bulletin to his publication. Part of the staff of the former government paper,
said, was employed on his
weekly.
covering
America and every country In the world, cost a Httle over *4.900.000. less than the other belligerents spent In one country in one year.”
• AY» HK WILL NOT Bfc “SCARED." Roger %V. Bah sea Declares He WeaM
Like to See Govennaeat Art. WELLESLEY. Mass.. April 12.—
Roger W. Babson said here that he would be glad to have ths govern-
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