On November 21, 1918, Jacosohn published the program of the "Rat geistiger Arbeiter" (English: "council of headworkers") to which he belonged himself for a short period of time. He left the council because he did not want to spend time on a "debate club". Instead, he wanted to use that time for his editing work in the newspaper. Soon the newspaper critically discussed the cooperation between social democracy and the German army as well as the insufficient purging of public officials who were monarchistic or anti-republic.