Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 183, Hammond, Lake County, 25 January 1918 — Page 8

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THE SINS OF THE CENSOR AN OPEN LETTER TO AMERICANS.

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Paris, December, 1917. Tha A:nrleari army 1n Francs Is your arir.y. It !ces not belong to Washington or to the War Department, or tn the snrala, any more han It blcr.gs to you. I am a war corespondent attached to your army. Tha rr.attera that I -hail point out !a tills latter ere. not vita! to rr.e as a newspaper r.ian. They ai vital to w.e aa an American. A Americans j nust Insist upon publicity for the truth, -whether U may fea disagreeable, or rot. Therefore T Jiroposs to exrlaln to you the organisation of American censorship In yranoa which prevents th roal news of cur army beinr sent ho.rr.s. I believe the time is near whn most cf us will feel like rletai-h'.nsr temporarily some of the wreaths -vhich festooned the American expeditionary foroa on Its arrival in France. I hunf up a fe'T rnreelf. ?o-.ne of them were rsscessary at the tine. h'U n-t over did it. I cow beltwe there nr s orris thlntrs conaerning: our rrHI:rry effort that need criticism rether than lowers. There seems to he r,o proper cor:rrehenslon by our mil'tary authorities ? the part public oplrin must play to bring the war to a victory. Thre'.re the present American censorship srands onlv for a mn77.l American press. Criticism i.e forbidden. Th-re 1 an ostrich policy that If facts are hlflden thev cease to exist. Staff officers t-11 me that the arir.y wants p-io-I c'.ty, byt 'here Is little understanding that It is the press thro:;?h which publicity is secured. There is only a suspicion that it was solely through the Iress that conscription ar.Tls !n America T.-ere wada possible. To tl.e staff mind the press Is unnecesary and the censorship is s,n orsan for restraint. All of ciir allies bundled the censorship problem at the befrinr.inR of the war. Some of them have never ceased To bung-la if. The fact that the American censorship s now so dovetailed -with the French may he one reason why !t Is r.ot a success. The French censorship, thotisrh btter than U was. Is Still far from perfect. Knsland has made the greatest improvement. The: Iinglish chief censor is now a brigafli-jr general, and none of his assistants is be.tow the ranlc of canta'n. This lndictatea in a measure that the Encl!.h ,rn" Js av.ali? to the alue of pjbiic!ty. When a correspondent is a'-credit-ed to th EnaSlsh arm- the authorities. noT" credit hi;:; wi-h having b..th intelligence ar,,j patriotic desire to see the Aii:e3 win the war. "iR cEXon it. vk in o ntiAiroivmn, Tha Arr.erlcan censorship which should e the fairest and best, is nc.ally the worst and with e. reason.

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Itauiiwtism is n j i-t..p.-cicr ul ue, sex, color or rank. I f not the, most ?araru!j cf h;ir,Tn affliction?, it is rne cf the mo.-t painful. Those subject to rheumatitr. should eat less meat. 9is as TartT-!y as possible, avoid any undue exposure, nd, abwe all. drink lets of pure water. Rheumatism is caused by uric acid hfch is generated in the bowels and absorbed into the blood. It is the function of the- kidneys to f.ltcr this acid from the blood and cast it out in tho urine; tha pores of the skin are also a Tnear.s of frelnir the blood of this impurity. In d-imp and chilly, cold weathr the skin pores are closed, thus forcing the kidneys to do double, work, they become weak and slugsri.eh and fail to eliminate this virlc acid, which lieeps accumulating and circulating through the- system, eventually settling in the Joints and muscles causingr stiffness, sorenes.t and pain called rheumatism. At tho first twinge of rheumatism get from any pharmacy about ounces of Jad Stilts: put a tablespoon ful in a glass of water and drink before breakfast each i'ornirg for n wek. This is said to eliminate Uric aid by stimulating the I'idneys to normal action, thus ridding the blood of these impurities. Jad Salts js Inexpensive, harmless slid, is made from the aid of grapes 'i snd lemra Juice, combined with lithia nd is used with excellent, results by thousands of.' folks who are subject to theumatism. Here you have a pleasant, effervescent lithla-water drink which overcomes uric acid snd is beneficial to your kidneys as well. -Adv.

for American haa had time to And the perfect form of censorship, if there be one. Our army and government tried to make our censorship a success by bringing in civilians (some of them with newspaper experienced, but the mistake was made of creating them officers in the reserve. As such our censors are out of their element. They have no real power, the chief censor being only a reserve ma.lor. and all the correspondents know it perfectly. They are only a go-between from a staff that doe not understand to a press that is not understood. So any lieutenant colonel or higher officer can give them orders and does. An American -war correspondent in France either writes about American or French activities. I am certain that there is geldooj an occasion where he would combine the two in the same dispatch. The first question that I asked of our army on the dav that General re'rshing larded at Boulogne was whether, when the American censorship became a fact, it would be final on strictly American news. It is now agreed by our allies that it is important that the ntts cf each country be presented without interference with the other, rttit up to the present moment the greater pa.t ot American cable news has a double censoifhip. French onJ American. My contention has always been that A merican is great enough a nation and our aid to Allies is of sufficient value for us to insist that the arproval stamp of the American censor shall be sufficient. An adjustment of the matter would not result in International con-

I plications. It cannot be accomplished, j however, so long; as the American censors work as they now do. j HHOTHF.RH IX STll'IDlTV. j American censors in the field have offices of their own. The correspond-. Jents- dispatches are taken to a small I town telegraph office where there ale no French censors:. Then they are sent J to the central telegraph office at the j Ta is Bourse, which is the general i luaiquart-rs of the French press censorship. There one finds a second , hatch of American censors, who exer

cise the power to recer.sor copy already passed by superior censors at the base. This housing of the French and Americans in the same room hud the most unfortunate results. The American censorship law forbids many restrictions that the French inser takes for granted ar.d insists upon. American telegrams, either written at the front or handed in by the esi-det-it correspondents in Paris, .trust go first to the French censor. The correspondent labels ;i nie. sages "Control le Americaln." No matter, they go first to the French censor. Then the two censors discuss the story and di .do topMhr whether it shall pas. x"t seldom the American censor will criticise something, from the French ooinl of view, that the French censor has pa-sed. I am tr.ak'ng all these staftncnts as th result of experience, f could give many illustrations of thts brotherhood in stupidity of the French and American censors that I am pure

I onia convince you that thev should

be separated just as far as posible. r have had the meaning of my stories distorted. I have even had the "meaning of .my stories changed. The American censor told me once he cut tit certain sentences because I do not think they add to the value of the dispaVb.. I point-d out that I could not see his right thus to save cable tolls for rue, and I tried to have, the message return' ed. That was impossible, because once the message is in the hands of the censor it stays there. It is never possible to talk it over, to find out what has been out out, except by telephone. Rather than send messages of meaningless and disjointed sentences I have often been compelled to order entire stories suppressed. Congress has determined that there shall be no American censorship on incoming news. The only censorship under American law concerns outgoing news and news printed in the alien press. Therefore the American censorship in France, and the news concerning the expeditionary force. Is operative only under the French law. Our Jeneral Staff, by permission of Washington and by the fact of the French law. has imposed what it calls a "military censorship.- What we actually have as the result of the attitude of our staff, the capacity of our censors, and the manner in which they work, is not only .military censorship, but political, diplomatic, financial, personal, and even social censorship as well. As a war correspondent I have lived and worked under the French composit censorship for over three years. I certainly believe In a restraint upon any news that would be of use to the enemy. But at this point my belief in

censorship ends. At present the sins of the censorship cannot be placed at their Individual door. They have not one iota of power. Their entire organization is upside down. Already there have been many bad results. I am certain that the final one, if the present form is maintained, will be the prolongation of the war. These results to date are obvious to anyone who reallieg that this war is just as vital to America as to any of her allies; that she ia fighting because of facts, not because of theories, the chief of these facts being that her v ery existence as a great nation and world power is at stake. I would classify these results of the censor's sins as follows: First, a stagnation yr at least a slowing up of interest in America because the present, censorship i a nonconductor and there Is a lack of news concerning our activities: second, a areless easy-going attitude among our officers and men now here; lastly, a feeling among our co-respondents of "What's the use. anyway? If we have a. atory about the American expeditionary force that Is Buy goud. it Is a safe bet that it will not be allowed to pass, so wliv write it?" In a belief that criticism should be. constructive rather than destructive, 1 now o!?c- vny opinion concerning what our censorship organization should become. wwrrni a pibmcitv bibdai. Primarily, it should oeaje to b known as "censorship." The American press, as represented over here. Is thoroughly patriotic and should be taken into partnership with the army and navy as the flghtyig arm of the American government. The censorship organization should be renamed "The War Publicity Bureau of th'e United Ptates Fxpeditionary Force." At present the censorship belongs To the Inteligence Department of the army, which fact alone makes It a negativeforce. It never passes its findings to the public, but to the powers that be. It i? the department that handles espionage which alone is enougli to divorce It from th censor. If turned into a war-publicity bureau, the censorship ceases to be a negative force and becomes n positive institution and an institution for good. "ton mav assume from this poit that. I. an; against cersorsh'p 1n nil Its forms. I have already said that I believe In the restraint of nn that will give the enemy comfort.' But this war i.i so different from every other war that te!8 ;g indeed very little news that csnnot be safely published. If the army has an important movement of troop?, or- the navy of ships, those departments keep their own counsel anyway. The air ervtce hag so destroyed land strategy that it is Impossible to keep any a vny movement ery mu-h of a ."rrct. If an offensive of anv large scale is planned, the ortlllet concern t rs 'on immediately advises the 'nmy what is up, even if-h!s n'rplanes do noi. So about the only important secret that can be kept nowadays is the exact hour when the infantry goej over the top. Thus, the real use of the military censor as he existed (n previous wars, is practically done away with. Naturally there are sorre rr.ters that ought to be kept secret as long ns possib'e. To give exa:r.p!e: fT believe if was right not to mention the ports at which our troops first Tended or the f.rst encampments In France. T!ut now the Germans know them all, and for months it would hav e been just as safe to say that the troops were installed in (lie Jeanne d'Are country as to say tbat the English were the main off enslev troops in the. .Battle of Flanders. Iverybody in Furore knows esaetlv whe.-e they are. The Oermans have fiown over the camps many times and distributed pamphlets addressed to the Americans. Tet it has been the great secret in America. " And T am sure that the story of our troops in the land and the town of Jeanne d'Arc would have been a fine thing to tell our people. MIT THH PI BMC KNOW THE FACT?. This is a citizens' war and if the citizens are. not kept posted on what the army 1s doing stagnation will get worse and worse until tha war is Indenitely prolonged, if not lost. If the correspondents had been able to cut loose we could by this time have had all America on tiptoe to see that we were doing our share in beating the Central empires. The present negative censorship has become an ideal screen for errors because through it all criticism is barred. The general staff can make as many "gaffs" as it like, and nothing is known. L'o you think that, had there been a, proper publicity bureau instead of an improper censorship in F.nnland at the time of the Da i denelles

DIAZ MOWS DOWN INVADERS ON MARSH

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The map shows that southeasterly end of the front lines in Italy -where General Diaz and hi? Italian forces have removed the menace to Venie and are Tttowinjf down by the hundreds the Aastro-Ormant who are unable to advoncp and unwillinp; to retreat. Venire is regarded iafe since the recent capture of Capo Sile on the w3tem end of the delta of "marsh" land formed by the Piave ard the File, or old Piave rivn. When the Italians fled from the Tag-'iamento their pursuers frot as far as Capo Sile before being checked. Only one road crosses the marshy stretch of mud flats and the Italians flooded these flats so that the invaders could make no progress. When the -waters receded recently the Teuton trid again r.nd aeatn to advance along the one road between Cava Znecherlna and Cap

disgust. I feel that thia story should be printed. It would be a story of criticism. Our people take pride in the Xtarine Corps and we would resent as much as the marines that they are now being used for such work. The marines naturally charge the situation to army Jealousy. This cordial tolerence that I mention has also been the cause not only of refusals to permit Dews being sent, but of misinformation; also of .promises permitting new that l ave been broken by a telephone message to. the censor the moment the corrcsponient's back ,ls turned. I have been subjected to this even by an officer of very high position, in a case where the story had nothing to do whatever with the American arrcy. It was an exceedingly important story shown to him as a matter of courtesy. He. immediately ordered it killed by the censor, although every word of it would have favorably effected the war plans of the United Ptates. OIR W1MXG rOPft.4R.ITV. It is a fact that our problems o" bringing a great army across the ocean to. fight, and maintaining it. are about the greatest any natlcn ever tackled. The more credit to America when the Job is done. In thjp meantime wbv give out false statements, vain boasts, and buoy up false hopes" Th French, because of this big talk, now think we have thousands of airplanes ready for action and hundreds of thousands of troops here to relieve some of their old tired out classes. TVe would never have nny resson to be ashamed of cur effort if we would be only honest about it and lt the truth be known. The

European allies made a r. ing the war and had

Cocoanut Oil Fine For Washing Hair

If you want to keep your hair In good condition, be careful what you wash it with. Most soaps and prepared shampoos contain too much alkali. This dries the scalp, makes the ha'.r brittle, and is very harmful. Just plain mulslfled cocoanut oil (which is pure and entirely greaseiess). is mucli better than the most expensive soap or anything else you can use for shampooing, as this can't possibly injure the hair" Simply moisten your hair with v,nter and rub it in. One or ttr tes spoonfuls will make an abundance of rich, creamy lather, and cleanses th hair and scalp thoroughly. The lathe -rinses OJt easily, and removes ever, particle of dust, dirt, dandruff an! es-esstve oil. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and it leaves it fne an-! silky, bright, fluffy and easy to rnar. age. Ton can get n;ulsi."ea coccanut ?n at most any drug store. It is ti cheap, and a few ounces is enough to last everyone in the family for montl. Adv.

us to help the:--.. They nnuet carry en until we. are ready to help. But unWs we tell them the truth about ourselves we will soon become far less popular than we nre today. I do not mean that we are nlreadv- unpopular, but on. great popularity has worn off. The cinerr.s tos-. b nh pictures of our armv "

hash of win- excite interest, in the Taris theatre, to call upon ) but no applause.

expedition, that sffnir would have been the sorry mens it was Or Saloniki at this moment? We njust have the privilege of free comment and criticism of our army. The incompetents ni'.ist go, and the only way to get rid of theni is to let the public know the facts. THE WEST POINT MINT). I have already said much concerning the attitude of the General Staff toward the censorship. I will now deal briefly with the attitude of the. staff toward the correspondents and the French public. Our General PtaT Is afTilcted with the

West Point "Mind. As most of its per

sonnel are West Fointevs, that is rat

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that this is a cltzens' war.

Pointers are too few an

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duct more than Just a very small parti ttt- our Amerb-an military affairs. Be- j sides, the Wet Point mind is too much ' alon? the lines thst we are trying to subdue. I mean that it ts too Prussian, j Put I lo not attemn to write about !

-tost of its peri s, that is rat - I1"-" ady 'remarked ; fc ar. so the West, j T vd their under- l j nperly to con- I I I

West 'Point. 1 simpjy object to the absolute control in this war by any

group of -i-.'ii. wearing blinders. j WE H(HT TOO MICH IV FKSfCE. j The only exception to this Is in the j case of the marines. The very fact

that these men have seen much of the world has given them a broader point of view as well 'ns made them the crack fighting unit of our forces. The marines were the first unit to complete training. Then they were shifted along our lines of communication from England to the south of France, acting as sort of "baggage guards, much to their

All Traces of Scrofula Eradicated from the System

By the greatest of all purifiers. A common mistake in the treatment of scrofula has been the use of mercury and other mineral mixtures, the effect o which is to bottle up the impurities in the blood, and hide them from the surface. The impurities and dangers are only added to in this way. For more than fifty years S. S. S. has been the one recognized reliable blood remedy that has been used witrv.bighly

I satisfactory results for Scrofula. Eeit.g ' made of the roots ar.d herbs of the for

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BOWEL LAXATIVE FORJAMILY USE "Cascarets" regulate women, men and children j without injury. j

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Instead of nasty, harsh pills, salts, castor oil or dangerous calomel, why don't you 'keep Cascarets handy in your home? Coscarets act n the liver and thirty feet of bowels so gently you don't realize you have taken a cathartic, tut they act thoroughly and can be depended upon when a good liver and bowel cleansing is necessary they move the bile and poison from the bowels without grlring and sweeten the stomach. You eat one or two at night like candy and you wake up feeling fine, coated tongue, sour stomach, constipation, or bad cold disappears. Mothers should give cros, whole Cas'a-et any time they are harmless and safe for the little folks. Adv.

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