The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-12-03

no method Of preventing them from
broadcasting. it.
The foreign correspondents are
chaps who feel the pinch
Many is the good yarn they get
that the censor's Office won't allow
the cable companies to transmit for
them, to their various home coun-
tries
Being right here. in domestic
journahsm's midst, they naturally
holler to their native colleagues.
and the latter aren't sympa-
thetic. Their theory is that there
are certain classes OF information
that ought 10 be kept hushed up,
but that there are other kinds
which simply are favorable adver-
Using.
Furthermore, it's contended that
excessive secrecy makes folk sus-
picious. They are everlastingly
afraid that BAD news IS being sup
pressed from them.
The other day, too, military
headquarters fed out the suggestion
that reporters should not guess, in
advance, relative TO desirabilities
Of prospective operations. The crit
les answer is that the news boys
obviously think faster than the pro-
fessional fighters do, and bother
them, by making them appear to be
backward-perhaps, likewise, Civ
ing useful hints to the enemy.
Keeping News Home
Wen. here at home it is difficult
10 stop them, but it can be done
pretty effectively in the foreign
field, by putting the nipper on the
trans-Oceanic wires.
The result seems to be that our
democratic allies are uncertain
how popularity we are solidly with
them. They can sense that they are
not being constantly fully posted
and it worries them. OF course
this is especially true Of Britain,
also OF Latin America, and maybe,
to some extent, OF China, although
the press there doesn't amount to
much. Needless to remark, the
Axis powers won't circulate our
stuff in their areas, but it is liable
to be Just what we require in our
friends territories.
With Chief Censor Byron Price
10 fault is found. News distribution
Is his passion.
Byron gets his orders from over
head, however.
They reach him from Lowell
Mellett, Harry Hopkins and Archi-
bald MacLeish.
These birds are censorial and
THEN some.
It's curious as to Lowell Mellett.
Harry the Hop and Arch McLeish
are in the somewhat dictatorial
classification. but Lowell always
was a liberal until very recent
years How he happened to degen-
crate into absolutism is a puzzle.
Elmer Davis doesn't rate as a
CENSOR. His job is to give OUT
information-to give il out cor
rectly, but 10 give It OUT.
Davis Not to Blam.
Davis has done il as far as the
censorship would let him.
Tied by the leg to the govern
ment, as Elmer is, he has been con-
siderably crippled, but he has done
his darndest
Britain has done blamed sight
better anu-censorially. than this
country has. Winston Churchill has
kept the cork out completely. When
his government has been parlia-
mentarily roasted, he has turned it
loose lad lib" We've kept It
hushed, for foreign publication, on
congressional howls.
The result Is that the British
know definitely where their public
opinion IS at"
They are not so sure about ours
They get our newspapers, it's
true, but belatedly
Their members OF parliament
pan their administration like fury.
and we get the text Of it. Congress
pans OUR administration more or
less, but it isn't cabled to the other
side Hadn't they ought 20 be told
what IS being said on OUR Capitol
Hill?
BunRling is what our censorship