The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-09-21
SENDING LETTERS
TO men At front:
Government Issues Instructions
For Relations and Friends.
CENSORSHIP WILL Be LAX


On the First Line, HE Company and
Regiment sn ~ Next aai nArsrieao
ExpslitioAary Ferss" - Nsxt Ind
UneIe Sam Will ~ the 1sssk
Close cooperation between the war
and postoface departments In bringing
rapidly into operation a system where
BY the parents and other relatives Of
soldiers are going to be able to keep
IN close touch by mail with those in the
trenches in France.
Already there has been esta blish-
ed at General Pershing's headquarters
~somewhere along the western front"
q complete American postoftice station,
differed and manned by trained postal
officials and employees taken from New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and otlL
or large cities in the United States.
These postal experts were quietly ship
ped to Europe on one of the transports,
and they are rapidly getting their Of
fees there organized.
4 AZ oA atAh11IAC ROAL VI LILO OAuCu
States that happens to serve as the
port of embarkatien for troops going
10 France there Is another special
branch pestofice being organized and
developed to handle tho mail at thu
md Of the line.
. Mailing Made Easy.
u 60 complete Is .ths srysnizstien b.
.lhg caEriDA out hat reye4 aeW If any
oody wishes % send Z letter to = sol-
der In the Americas. 1pe6lttuna15
seces al he has to do II to sit down
md address the sn.slopa IN phh B1e
sh and according to the following d.
4Dcto0s: &c. .,} .. 49,. 49, ra:s
j, Put down IL soldiers nsns and
1ank on the lrst line. his company and
1sgtnent on the next ed III wSkas
HAmsrtcan, Expeditionary Force'' ON
10 ae1nt. II 1s not even necessary or
AdNisable to put the designation
sTnnce." e,,.~ j a
/; This done, attach the same amount
II postage that ges would use on do.
nestle mail. Wherever tho American
i Emy 'snsy be Il gets IT. man at 10.
hsstfc rates. The government sees to
Nat. The government viii also see to
4 that the letter or the newspaper q
magazine 30 addressed and dropped in
~ nearest mail box gets7to It's aestina.
100 in the shortest possible time. II
thipping space can be found In SUN.
aiasnt quantity the postOmface, depart
lnent hopes soon to include special ar
Janxements for the handling Of parcel
:Dost mail to be aent 10 tho soldiers ut
the front.
Censorship 60 :8e Lax.
Unlike the stricter policy attempted
ut the outset Of the war by the armies
e Europe. 1t is not the present inten-
t1on Of the war department to restrict
he communications sent home by SOL
liers to printed cards containing Ste
peotyped phrases which the soldiers
San strike out or leave in as they suit
sheir particular state Of physical well
icing. 1t Is felt that this would In
volve too harsh a regulation for the
;uarents and wives Of men at the front.
Consequently the only regulation that
viii be attempted over the correspond
ance will be the regular censorship at
each regimental headquarters, through
which all mail sent out by the soldiers
must pass.
At this point the war department in
tends shortly to issue warning and
q plea to American newspapers not to
print, without careful regard to posi-
BE harm that might be done. letters
from soldiers bearing the phrase pass
ed by the censor" Such censoring,
which will be administered with the
utmost liberal regard for the private
character Of the correspondence. will
not be as strict as the censorship over
press matter. Therefore the papers of
the country will be asked to exercise
HE greatest possible care about letters
which might be submitted to them for
publication by proud parents or friends.