El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-18
THIS SENSELESS CENSORSHIP
is DRUGGING US TO SLEEP

z THAT about Gen. ]. ]. Pershng and his army In
M France? About all know Of them is that they
are there and have had training including
trench experience for few Of them and they had nice
Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations and the weather
rainy when II isn't showing Also twice week,
receive the of five ten who have died of acct
dent, disease OF wounds.
The above very nearly summarizes our knowledge Of
troops abroad and what they doing. We grow
nz spaketic toward our troops Europe except as
CARDS relatives and friends among them and for that
apathy ridiculous unjust and useless exercise Of the
censorship is to blame
The war department has expressed its wishes regarding
censorship and the navy department likewise Those
wishes have been communicated by the committee pub
lie information namely, George CTee to the newspapers
and By them published for the information Of the Amer
public They have been published the public might
know what the newspapers have to contend with
they may hold the newspapers and the gathering
associations the individual correspondents abroad to
blame for the lack Of news.
By news Is meant NEWS The correspondents in
France are allowed to send out lot Of stuff such it
Is and that IS Just what it is-STUFF The American
public ought be alive with interest tense Keen thrilled
b. the preparations which the army making for war
awake to the necessity Of hard work factory, work
shop shipyard The people in these 48 states
ought to be head heels in the war and they are not
Why2 Because they are being given diluted milk when
strong meat should be the diet.
Correspondents with the American expedtOnary forces
understand just what is the trouble The unreasonable
Of the censorship wei deneated by Wythe VII
ams Paris correspondent Of the New York Times in an
article Golfers Of January 12 entitled, "The Sins Of the
Censor and as ably by Haywood Brown correspondent of
Of censorship which shall conceal important military facts
from the enemy. They also in agreement to the
ensesness Of censorship which conceals from the Amer
public facts already well known to the Germans facts
which ought to know.
We do not know in what part of France troops
We do not know the villages they occupy, how many
troops we have in France. The Germans know ali those
hngs and the Of where American troops are
training printed IN French and Swiss, but not IN Amer
an newspapers German aviators fly the American
CAMPS, flying low to make careful observations They
have dropped notes Of greeting to the Americans They
watched troops training Undoubtedly the German
High Command knows approximately how many troops the
United States mas landed France, for the aerial OBJ
able guess with great accuracy after three
years Of experience But Americans do not know how
many men have there, do the French people
They think have half million there now and viii have
million BY spring They due for establishment and
q voeful disappointment soon.
We do not with what the American troops abroad
had contend We do not know what mistakes have
been made what bunders might be Temeoied The whole
thing CLOSED and whewaShed- The army censor
ship 10 avoid giving aid and comfort to the enemy" viii
rot allow correspondents to send much line Of
criticism There must be printing Of unpleasant facts
After the American have done their worst-it
mast remembered that the the other side are
Judges Of what they shall pass and the department
nothing do with i-hen the French censorship takes
hold and cuts out Of American stories everything
pessss There Is for this for the American
sorshr IS supposed be absolute its supervision OF
es concerning the American army But after these two
oersops through the has been cut out of the
story and little remains No wonder we don't find 1t IN
-eTesiing.
Tie correspondents themselves have lost heart and are
Dot trying to get live news knowing it would net be
passed They have confne themselves to visiting
zressnen ana Calder Santa Clauses and motor truck
aed In the and the fact that soldiers not al
owed Il heat OF scar at their mules
THERE ISN'T AN I0TA OF REAL NEWS IN ANY
D. IT AND The AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE GOING TO
SLEEP OVER THEIR OWN WAR IN WHICH THEIR