Arizona republican., 1917-07-19
BEHIND THE SCREEN Golfers Weekly

If Lord Northcffe isn't careful he will be shipped back to England undesirable alien Think of a British peer coming to the source of democracy un defiled and saying:
 q hope that America may permit her newspaper and magazine writers to be absolutely frank about what is going It is important for the nation to know the worst it is for the nation to know the best. For one thing-and we have found it out from actual eXperience-it is great stimulus for the fighting in the field to known that they being written about at home and that the country they are fighting for knows precisely what they doing'
 In England they have discovered things about the censorship. They know that it was partly to blame for the lack of explosive shells for the France it covered up the stupid and disastrous Gallpoli petition and it postponed public vengeance upon the criminal conduct of the first campaign in Mesopo- tamia Now they have prehy well discarded it. But over here it isn't good for know much about the deeds of our rulers Put up and shat up the orders The newspapers instructed to print only officially communicated by the Committee Public Information direct from Washington. They obey with a meekness equally commendable and expected. If read of them, you read them all
 It is easier to a newspaper nowadays than it used to be. The contents supplied in carbon copies from Washington. The administration will write the headlines if asked Putting Out the Enemys Eyes -Prodigious and Unparalleled Efforts of Admni- stration to Think of Deciding Prepare to Invite Aviation Experts to Consult Plans Build Avia- uon Fleet of 100000 Airplanes Be Finished Before August 1, 1917. Not Later Than January l. 1s47" "To Detroy the | -Boats-Secretary Daniels Orders Fleet of Brch-bark Canoes Armed with Thirty inch Howitzers, and Calls Upon All Owners of Catamarans to Surrender Them the Government" Clash Be- tween Hoover and Denman-Food Controller Com plains That Shipping Boards Order for Flour Paste for Shinge Merchant Fleet Will Interfere with Wheat Supply for Allies" Seven Million Men for France.- Several Thousand Now There Their Way Intense Activity at War Department-Machi Guns Will be Ordered-Talk of Making Bayonets-Bids for Cantonments About to Be Opened-Powder About o Be Tested-Contracts for Ammunition About to Be Signed-Secretary Baker Attending Convention of Florists at Kankakee." To Crush the Huns-Secre- tary of Navy Issues Drastic Order Directed Against Germany-Forbids Games PinochIe on American Warships.'
 The official inventors publicity for pale people could step further and the publishers the cost of composition by supplying them with boiler plate" George Cree would not scrupple write the editorials He is pretty busy but he is also getic full of spiritual upft and ambidextrous He could relieve the editorial writers New York World" and other circulars who must be tired of the language of compliment about the existent and the void
 The public is curious know what s going on De hind the screen and worried, but without cause It would be disappointed if it peeked It hears the ter of typewriters, and of solemn tongues the But the heroes of the Cabinet not issuing martial that after conferences lasting far into the night nearly month they have succeeded in compelling predatory manufacturers reduce price of door knobs in the state and navy buildings tenth of one per cents Others dictating daily chapter Of their autobiographes-th sad, Lncolnian of their greatness and their trials Later on History with an eraser in hand and fountain pen loaded with invisible ink in the other, will edit compositions which thus far blazing the title page as the adventures of Sir John Vaudeville as motionless in the contents novel by Jane Austen. Having had a glimpse of the forbidden scene, assure the country that since the war began nothing has happened except what they have seen in the papers and very little of that.