Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-14
cENsoRs CAUSE GRIEF.
Newspapers Of Paris Having Difficulty
in Obtaining Stories Worth Printing

| tCorrespondence OF Associated Press.
Paris Nov 90. Peculiar things
happen to news in these days when II
is so scarce and censors are so strict.
Much news is lifted from one news
paper into another, and when writer
gets a story into print there is no tell
ing under what date line, or whose
name 1t may reappear
One of the few graphic and authentic
stories from the front appeared in an
afternoon paper here on recent sun
day. It was cabled TO New York the
same evening. The next day Paris
newspaper picked UP the story and
that afternoon another paper did the
same thing Other papers. morning
and afternoon. ran the story on Tues
day. And then. on Wednesday morn :
ing. an English newspaper printed the
item as a special dispatch from the
north Of France over the signature OF
an authentic war correspondent.
The incident is not SO much an ex-
ample of loose editorial work as a
demonstration of the journalists
troubles during the war. Copy is scarce
enough at best and the censor ruins
the best OF 1t while the STATS of all the
Paris papers are decrated by the
mobilization.
Each copies from all the others and
a story that passed observation TO-DAY
may catch tie eye tomorrow. This ap-
plies to the censors staff as well. for
an article approved In the morning is
sometimes cut out in the afternoon
One man with the official scissors sees
one paragraph that will not do. His
colleague passes the same article IN
another paper, but finds another OBJ
jectionable paragraph that the other
did not see
Clemencsau's rechrstened paper
L'Homme Enchaine. recently contained
the heading of an editorial. rs II
True?" The rest of the column was
blank and the public shall have 10
wait for the end of the war to know
whether it is true o. not.
/ In another case dangerous news
item was cut out but the head was
/ overlooked. II was a good head and. OF
course, contained the meat OF the
article.
+ The Cri de Paris says the censor IL
as capricious as q pretty woman then
proves il by giving details OF certain
! incidents in which Eek Minister Gail
/ laux and Madame CaillauX were con
cerned. but regarding which the censor
/ had imposed a strict silence. Monsieur
and Madame Caillaux appeared arm
in-arm on the boulevard. and. were
booted They went to a restaurant to
dine and all the other guests rose &c
! leave. They went into the garage where
the requisitioned motor-cars of the mil
! itary government Of Paris are kept and
ordered car. but the car was refused
/ and Gallieni approved the refusal. All
these incidents. suppressed pitilessly by
the censor in Paris, were passed in the
Eclaireur de Nice. and now thu Cri dc
Paris has had the chance to smuggls
! them into Paris under the rose Of the
censor who previously cut them our
The newspaper was orr OF the ffKs'
institutions hit By the war. With TN
first excitement circulation we ut up ttJ
j leaps and bounds. while The mobiliza.
4 ton cut Off sources OF supply OF paper
Dailies that had not gb1d res w
stock shrank at once from four pages
to two, then from a full sheet so.nt
even appeared for weeks in quarter
sheet size.
/ AT tn esame time so many unem-
ployed men. women and children be.
came newsyendcrs, khat Paris :ufferte
for "A time Tom riot. OF news. 1h'
military goeFSor decided That II val
too much for the nerves OF Paris, ane
at the first sign that the situation wal
becoming paniclsy. all extras we're sup
pressed and the crying of news O
titles OF newspa pcrs prohibited.