The Wrangell sentinel., 1942-08-28
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 h last weeks Sentinel we men Iioned. editorially. that Newsweek. a national magazine which came to our desk had fallen victim of the eensor.s scissors. Pages 57 and 56 had a large corner missing and we. naturally. wondered what too vital Iy important article concerning the war had been removed as unfit for our Alaskan eyes. Alabama and Maine and California could read it. bur not us.
 4 neighbor also takes Newsweek- We were over at his house and sort of thumbed through his copy. I'm agine our surprise at finding pages 57 and 58 intact in his magazinei Maybe We shouldn't have read the article but We did. Believe il or not THIS is what the censor had deleted from some Of the copies reaching Alaska. We quote;
 Negroes and Baseball is the heading and it goes on: aBaseball's most interesting game this season has yet 10 see the eombed grass Of an infield. The opponents are base ballL vs. racial discrimination. Each season organized basebal's un- written law against the Negro is aired in one or another sports col umn. But this year the airing was nationwide, partly because it was whooped up by the experienced az itators of the Communist party.
 Had enough? So have We, but the article goes on in our neighbor's un- clipped magazine for two half-col- umns.
 We laid our neighbours magazine down. Laughed Maybe We were a little hysterical It would have been humorous had it not been so deadly serious; Alaskans are used to laughing off a lot of insults But we were remembering the premium We pay to live in Alaska--beeause We love it--and. at that lead the nation in bonds and stamps sales; ws thought Of the many who had been forced from their homes in the Aleutians by the Jap invaders with never a word of complaint or bitter ness from them; we thought Of Al aska as young men fighting with the armed forces. (Let us at least take the credit of assuming they are fighting as gallantly, and as intelli- gently as any of those from the States.)
 Negroes and Baseball" It is needless to point out that Alaska s Negro population is almost nil---it's baseball even miller and Alaska is overwhelmingly Democratic polite ally. Nowhere on Uncle Sam's soil are racial lines less distinct than here in the north---but perhaps the censor thought Alaska was in the deep south. Newsweek of Aug. 10 was just a further example that these supposed censors don't pay much attention to what they snip.
 Sabotage of the war effort appar- ently isn't confined to one side. We could consider it sabotage of OUR war effort to waste money we put in bonds and stamps on salaries and scissors for such flagrantly stupid waste.
 However, We refuse to have our morale weakened. Alaskans, at least will neYer slack their war ef- fort or let the men down at the front. We can only suggest that if jobs MUST be found for such men. and they MUST use scissors, let them work on something more suit ed to their mentality like paper dolls. Some day they might get to- gether and clip the same item from ALL our copies of a paper or mag azina and further. they might clip something in which we would real iy be interested.
 We could also mention our copy of the Seattle Times for August 13. in which, on full page of pictures. one or two had been shipped by the censor's shears. Another neighbor got his copy from a local newsstand with the picture page intact. The picture missing from ours was of a Bremerton residential section fire Of which we'd had full details over the radio the day it occurred.
 Perhaps the office of censorship means we'll. We like to think 30 and constructive and military censor ship is right and necessary but af-