Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 13, Number 8, DeMotte, Jasper County, 1 January 1943 — DO NOT GIVE ENEMY ANY MILITARY DATA [ARTICLE]

DO NOT GIVE ENEMY ANY MILITARY DATA

On battle fronts every day men risk their liives to discover the location and strength of the military units of the enemy. Yet at home too many of us are presenting the enemy with information of the same military value, the office of censorship says in a statement. This is the information which newspapers and individuals are asked not to tell the enemy: Do not tell the names of ships upon which sailors serve. Do not tell the troop units in which soldiers serve overseas. There is no objection to revealing that Private John Jones is in Australia or that Seaman Tom Brown saw action in the Atlantic, but there is military information which endangers the lives of American fighting men in stating that Private John Jones, Co. C. Booth infantry, is in Australia, or Seaman Tom Brown “aboard the U. S. S. Wisconson,” is in the Atlantic. The office of censorship says: “We ask editors not to publish these troop identifications, and we ask parents and relatives not to reveal them. Don’t give the enemy anything that may lengthen the war.”