MILITARY NEWSPAPERS
ARE MORALE BUILDERS
During the first World War scores of Army journals slipped off mimeograph machines or the presses of print shops near the camps and cantonments throughout the United States. And in Paris, the famous "Stars and Stripes," official publication of the A.E.F., enjoyed more than a half-million circulation each, weels.. ' In ever-increasing numbers Army papers are appearing during war. New Zealand soldiers in tV\e» Middle East have their own journal called the "N.Z.E.F. Times." In Iceland, the American forces are editing "The Bugle." In the Canal Zone, soldiers in dense jungle positions peruse the "Panama Coast Artillery News" regularly.
The soldier-run newspapers staffs, well sprinkled with seasoned journalists caught in the draft, are headed by the senior public-relations or morale officers of the individual camp. . , As a morale builder . . • th&fourth estate's offering to the Army is rated high!
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 42, 20 April 1942, Page 5
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142MILITARY NEWSPAPERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 42, 20 April 1942, Page 5
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