Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-03-06 | Page 9 | Monument to Plucky Belgian Paper Urged

MONUMENT TO PlUCKY I BELGIAN PAPER URGED By Associated Press SEATTLE Wash March Under auspices ot of the Seattle Press club a national na- na national movement was Initiated last night whereby by the newspapers and their In the United States areto are areto to be asked to a fund fOl the purpose ot of erecting a monument toLa to La Libre Belgique the indomitable little little lit lit- tle Belgian publication which appeared regularly throughout the German oc- oc Former President William Villiam Howard Taft Brand Whitlock minister to Bel- Bel glum glum Franklin K Lane secretary of the interior Frank A. A Henry Watterson Medill 1 McCormick and other oth- oth er nationally known newspaper men are to be asked to cooperate in making the campaign national In character and anda a monument ot of the appreciation of the American newspapers of Belgium's unconquerable newspaper James D. D a Seattle banker Is to be asked to be treasurer of the fund