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Show KEPT OUT OF WAR, NOW SERVES COX Publisher's Son Escaped Military Service Through Democratic Nominee's Influence. Tnung, able-bodied, rich, a strapping blK fellow, who possessed all the physical phys-ical equipment of an American soldier, save, evidently, heart, Ilobcrt P. Scrlpps was kept out of the war throtiKh Administration Influences. He was exempted. The local draft board ,t Ilutler County. Coun-ty. O, rejected bis plea and held (hut there was no valid claim far his exemption ex-emption and that he should surely don a uniform and shoulder arms, but Secretary Sec-retary of War Baker's law partner, Tom Sldlo, was employed t save tha yonlhful slacker. Governor Coz took a band In the case, and Dually, by White House decree, he went scot free. Ills multl-mllllonaire father, B. W. Scrlpps, cofitrolllne owner of the Scrlpps League of Newspapers and tba Newspaper Enterprise Association, a powerful combination, threatened to overthrow the Administration rather than permit either of his sona to answer an-swer the call of Dncle Sam. Administration Exempts Slacker. Uavlns helpod to re-alect Woodrew Wilson President o As Isms, "Hi kept us sat of war," tbs aMar Script eemunded that ai aoos to kapt out ef war. And tha AdaataistimtlM kspt tbeas out. Xsong Hobect Scrimps, wto kM er dans aay real aea'ayayea wtt, was tlvan tbo title Aaststut t tW Pas-llalier Pas-llalier of the Scrlpps La-DS t Mows-papers Mows-papers ts create an excuse for his exemption. ex-emption. Finally be was ordered heme from Camp Sherman by Governor Cox, after ho bad been la uniform for tea days. All these facts and mora of an equally equal-ly astounding and discreditable character charac-ter were brought out by tba Kenyon Senatorial Committee, which subpoenaed subpoe-naed youur, Scrlpps to Washington to explain his activities In the present campaign. Now Supporting Cox. fie Is today editor In chief of the Scrlpps League of Newspapers and the Newspaper Enterprise Association and Is putting out dally pink proparands sheets of a lurid and sensational character char-acter In support of the candidacy of Governor Coi. Samples of these sheets were submitted sub-mitted to the committee, and Senator Reed, Democrat, frankly denounced the propneunda as "rot" and manifested eitreme Impatience and disgust with the yonuc '.Jan's loos talk about a "Senate oligarchy" and criticism of the Supreme Court Young Scrlppn, slthougli be did aot tight for bis country la 1017-11, Insisted Insist-ed that he was doing It all through love of country and la the "public Interest," nlthout any pay from the Democratic ponmlttee or thought of obligation for kti-piu htm out o( war. The draft-dodging aspects of the case, ns brought out at Washington, are not unlike those of young ISergdoll of 1'hllndelphla, which resulted In a 1'cderal prosecution for conspiracy to eade the draft |