Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 237, 18 July 1919 — Page 11

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, JULY 18, J??.

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A, E. F, NEWSPAPER REVIEWS CAREER; 'TOOK

rJOTHIN' FROM KOBODY" EXCEPT J, J. PERSHING

(From last Issue, of the Stars and Stripes, A- E. P. Newspaper. Published In FranceO. Wltb this Issue, No. 19, of Volume 11, the Stars and Stripes finds itself being reverently hauled down, to bo as reverently laid away but not, we trust. In the brig; the while printer Dave Walsh, our only reformed bugler, sounds a not too mournful "To the Colors." Dare's old outfit, the 26th division, sailed for the States long ago, while he stuck over here to help finish the Job up properly. But now It's done and he's going home. And so, now that our work is completed, we are all going home. The Stars and Stripes Is up at the top o' the mast for the duration of the war, ran our opening bow editorial In the first issue, that of February 8, 1918. We think that now with all combat divisions save those of the 3d army well out of France we are violating no confidence in proclaiming the war over. And with the 5td army ably served by its own daily published on the banks of the Rhine, we feel that It is time for this weekly published on the banks of the Seine to cease firing. So. after blowing "To the Color." Bugler Walsh will sound "To the Rear" Yet before saying good-bye to what Is left of that A. E. F. which the Stars and Stripes was created to serve, and which it has served continuously throughout sixteen and a

half months according as Qod gaye it

to see the light, before saying goodi ly to the remaining members of the most homesick and most likeable army on earth, the Stars and Stripes feels

J that It owes a report on Itself and lit activities during those sixteen and a half months made to the man to whom It owes its being, Its reason

for existence, and Its unparalled sup

: port throughout namely, the Yank

enlisted man. For It was Old John W.

DoUbhboy using doughboy in general, inclusive Bense that made this sheet what is was, but setting up 'before ft those examples of heroism, pluck and endurance "which it has been its prlvilge and glory to chronicle for all the world to read. 80, Yanks, slpce the paper belongs to yon, you have a perfect right to ask what the Stars and Stripes did in the i great war. Well, here is oar story: Didn't "Win the War" To begin with, the Stars and Stripes is, so far as we know, the only subdivision of the A. E. F. that does not claim to have won the war singlehanded. Why this Is, we cannot tell. Perhaps it is because we have never had more than two marines on the sheet at the same time. Perhaps it is because rumor to the contrary, notwithstanding we have no personnel recruited from the overseas Y. M. C. A. We are content to rest on the appraisal of two of our chiefs. Said General Pershing in our anniversary issue: The Stars and Stripes has been an important factor in creating and supporting the excellent morale which has at all times charRftfiized the American expeditionary forces. And Major-General Harbord, one of our oldest and best backers, told us in the same issue: The Stars and Stripes has played an Important part in the. highly organized business we have carried on to defeat Germany. Suppose we let it got at that for the present, and get on with the yarn. The Stars and Stripes was started on a shoestring and bloomed in the course of twelvo months to a circulation of E26.0QO. Its staff at the beginning consisted of one frantically energetic and everlastingly pepful second looey of infantry (he's a major now), as officer in charge; one equally energetic but much more restful second lopey of marines (he's a first now; one ditto first looey of infantry as advertising manager; one never energetic buck private of leathernecks as art department, and one forced-to-be-energetic buck private of machine guns, as reportorlal and rewrite force. More buck privates were

rather bewildered force of some 800,000 men scattered all the way from Bordeaux to Lorraine, and heartily echoing the sentiments of the late, William Tecumseh Sherman. The names of its staff actually appeared in the London Times, making them, it is said, the first American writers to be favorably mentioned

therein since the vogue of Mrs. Har-

dlfference to our buck. At the con

clusion of their little talk, the lieutenant-colonel's boss took his charge gently by the hand, led him out behind the beadauarters caserne, and Quietly told him that a bocbe named Gutenberg discovered the art of printing la sixteen-some thlng-or-other; that it had later been perfected by a bleedln' Tommy named Caxton; that a wild Irishman named Edmund Burke, whose

speech he must have read some time in high school, once uttered some poignant remarks about the fourth estate.

and that, to conclude with, this was

me year a nineteen oi we rwenuein

century, together with some elucidat-

riet Beecher Stowe. Be that as it , ing remarks on the law of gravitation may, the Stars and Stripes Buspects ,. and the square of the hypotenuse. The that Lord Northcliffe, owner of the story must have got around (yet we've Times as well as the Mall, and one: never printed it until now), for after of the infant paper's heartiest rooters that we were able to work our own from the start, had something to do sweet will practically unruffled.

with it. He is the kind of Engusnman Who understands you when you say rooter and likes It. The Original "Old Guard." Of the people who wrote or drew for the first number, only three remain by the paper's bedside at the end. One,' the oldest of the trio, is army field clerk George W. B. Britt (43), who wrote our first signed story on our first sport page, and has since been occupied in answering 500,000 letters (so he claims), as head of the soldiers' service department of the paper, organizing quartets, octets and Gilbert & Sullivan revivals as a side lipe. Another is Sergeant Hudson Hawley, eighteen months a buck, who wrote almost everything Britt didn't write in the first Issue, and has since been utilized on jobs ranging from editorial writing to chaperoning amiable major-generals around France. The third member is Wally-down on the marine pay office books as Pt. Abian A. Wallgren (119,300), late sign painter, supply company, 5th regiment whose main function on the paper has been to make Britt and Hawley both miserable and famous by inserting their diametrically opposed likenesses in each and every one of bis gol-dern cartoons. After the first month an editorial board directed the Stars and Stripes. It included Wallgren, Hawley and these four: Harold Wallace Ross, 18th engineers (railway), managing editor from December, 1918 to April of this year; ex-Buck Pt. John T. Winterich, air service, head of copy desk, makeup editor and many, many other things; fat ex-Sergeant Alexander Woolcott, M. D., official correspondent of the Stars and Stripes at the front, later, amusement editor, because he was once a dramatic critic, and ex-Pt. C. LeRoy Baldrldge. infantry unattached, the respectable half of the art

department, known throughout the allied world for his cartoons of the doughboy, with which he helped in no small degree to put over the fourth and fifth Liberty loans in the States. "One Foot In Hoosegow." For more than fourteen months this board of six enlisted men really four, because the artists were, for the most part, called in on their own work alone X-rayed every article that came in. They brought many limelight seekers and overzealous promoters to grief, shocked many a chaplain, Y. M. C. A. man and visiting congressman by their deafness to pleas that the Stars and Stripes should run a religious column, enraged many a divisional publicity officer, and in general thumbed their collective nose3 at the martial universe. Together the four wrote fully 90

percent of the editorials. They worked always with one foot in the hoosegow, for practically every one of their callers and advisers ranked hell out of them; but from start to finish they held the paper to its original intention of being "by and for the enlisted men." It's a long yarn. Perhaps we can not do better than to cite the case of a certain lieutenant-colonel who took himself very seriously. This one, attached to G. H. Q. in a department having work but remotely allied to that we were doing, took it on himself sometime after the armistice to send us a letter somewhat as follows: From: (Name mercifully left blank; anyway, we can't spell it). To: Officer in Charge, Stars and Stripes. Subject: Criticism of A. E. F.

1. It has been noted by this office

"Fired out of Army"

We could tell another story, too, if

we wanted to and we do. A certain, high civilian dignitary of our government, newly arrived In France, de

cided to send out a call through our

columns to any and all of the bright

young men in the A. E. F. who, after being demobilized, would like to work for his department. A buck private was sent down to interview him, sized the story up for what it was worth, and prepared to say good-by. "Now, pee here," said the great man, In substance, "if you don't play that up Just as I told you to, and don't put it on the front page, I'll see General Pershing In Chaumont Saturday and I'll have you court-martialed and fired out of the army" that being the great man's idea of condign punishment. The buck grinned, said "Yes, sir," like a nice little boy, and went away. He wrote three paragraphs on his interview, which was later cut down to two by an elderly, ferocious and typethrifty New England copy reader and buried away on Page 2. Yet one more: One day we learned that the A. P. M. was out hot after the AWOL'S, and went round to his office to confirm it. He didn't want us to print the story at all, especially as to what would happen to them if they didn't pull the prodigal son stuff. We finally wheedled him into releasing the yarn, and forthwith printed it. Within five days after publication of that story, 80 per cent of the AWOL'S in the A- E. F. had returned to their outfits. How did we do it? That brings us to another phase of our work how we got the paper, once it was made, out to all the army. For that we had 105

field agents, as we called them, distributed on a' rough average of at least pne each to every division, and to every important project and port in the S O S, whose duty it was to line up their -subscribers, "wire or phOPe in for the number of papers they wanted (and, because of the scarcity of news print paper in wartime " France, " they would never get enough) then go down to the nearest gate and wait with the papers to come in, usually about midnight.

or unitg mat were not served by railroads direct we had to use autos and trucks, which may explain why the

Stars and Stripes was the bugbear of the M. T. C. throughout the length and breadth pf the war. In all, the Stars and Stripes used ninety-one government cars in getting Its one-timp 626,000 circulation out to the men It was intended to serve, and in getting its correspondents expeditiously around the regions where the railroads were all blown to blazes or on strike. Commander-in-Chief "Requested." In conclusion, as the Stars and Stripes Is hauled down two years to a day from the date on which General Pershing, with the advance guard of the A. E. F., landed in France, the staff of the paper wishes to express

added later, and Immediately proceed-j several criticisms of the A. E. F.

ed to outvote hell out of the officers

at all editorial conferences. The first office of the sheet was in the back room of a little converted Shop on the Rue St. Jean in tho town of Neufchateau, then used as the field press headquarters of the A. E. F. It is a far cry from the present high palatial offices in the Credit Mobiles building on the Rue Talbout in Paris back to part ownership and Bometlmes not even that in that little room in Lorraine. But what candidate for the presidency ever Buffered from once having been born in a log cabin? Created Stir. Then as now, the composition and

makeup of the paper was effected aU

the plant of the continental eaition of the London Daily Mail in Paris, whither four printer Yanks from the 29th engineers had been dispatched. Ft the last ten months the press run has been made at the plant of Les Journal. From the very beginning British printermen and French engravers have collaborated with the sweating, denimed Americans, who, below ground in the Mall's plant, have made the Stars and Stripes possible these sixteen and one-half months; so that it is really, in no small sense, an International affair. The appearance of Volume 1, No. 1, created quite a stir in tho states. Eng. land and continental Europe, but most of all in the A. E. F. Itself, then a

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have appeared of late in the columns of your paper. 2. Some of these criticisms have been humorous. 3. These criticisms will cease. After the first explosion of '.'Where does he get that Btuff ?" the then somewhat violent buck private managing editor got the lieutenant-colonel's boss on the phone. The fact that the man at the other end of the wire had silver stars on his scapula made no

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its appreciation of the generous policy of noninterference," of " noudictlop, which the general staff, A. E. F., has held to from the start lp its dealing? with us. It lent us about 25,000 francs to start on all long since paid back and then let us severely alone. Only one request, which was couched as a request and not an order, ever came to us, in sixteen 'and one-half months, from the high command. That was when the C'.-in-C. adopted two little French war waifs under our orphan department's plan. Being American newspaper men. we naturally got all set to boost the cause by heralding the adoption far and wide. But a brief, yet polite, memorandum signed "J. J. p.," asked us not to play it up asked, not ordered- And so the best story in that week's paper went in along with Cook Smith's and Private Jones's adoptions, as simply: "General John J. Pershing .3."

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