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PUBLISH1D DAILY. BXIEPT SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS
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GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY, (Inc.)
fUrrp V. Hi»b*n. P Frank L. Ballalne. Sec. F.rlch I.ucaa. Treaa.
Entered aeaecond-class matter September. 2.1915. at the postoffloe at Seward. Alaska. |
under act of March S. 1879. _
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OUR INVISIBLE CENSORSHIP
Urging that if censorship is enforced, the first duty
of the federal government is to suppress the crop reports,
industrial and financial news which it has given out daily,
W. D. Boyce, prominent publisher of Chicago, delivered
an address on “Censorship" recently at the University of
Missouri.
“By suppressing government industrial, financial and
crop reports, which are of great assistance to the enemy,
said Boyce, "you would close up the New York Stock Ex
change and Chicago Board of Trade, although a few pok
er and crap games might live. The absence of government
reports would prevent gambling in food products at least.
“I do not believe the kaiser cares a rap which com
pany of the National Guard is policing a certain bridge in
the United States. When our army and navy begin to
move across the sea, such information should be suppres
sed, but while developing our army, news of its internal
movements cannot aid the enemy and censorship of that
kind gives the public a wrong impression of the advan
tages and necessity of censorship.
“Of course a publisher takes no chances now who omy
uses or reprints what is published in The Official Bulletin,
a newspaper put out by the executive department of our
government. I am not sure he would dare to reprint parts
of the Congressional Record. In my judgment the first
publication our executive department ought to suppress
or censor, to be consistent, is the Congressional Record,
the official publication of the sayings and doings of con
gress. We all know many government leaks come out
through the Record.”
In emphasizing the loyal cooperation which the press
of the United States has always given the government in
time of war, without censorship, the speaker also gave a
number of instances of big news stories left out ot print
for the sake of the country, “when the button was pressed
at Washington.”
“This country has been saved many an unnecessary
shock and much worry by the great invisible censorship
put on by the government asking the newspapers not to
print so and so, and I know of no case where good faith
lias failed to be kept by the pi ess. I will give you two
examples, each of them having a bearing upon the present
war:
“Real German opposition to the united States was
first shown during the Spanish-American war, when Ad
miral Dewey was on his way to Manila. The foreign min
ister of Germany sent for Mr. White, our ambassador at
Berlin, and told him that the kaiser had requested the
United States government be informed that Germany
would not object to our taking the Philippine Islands, pro
vided we would give Germany several islands for naval
bases.
“Ambassador White told this at once to Capt. Barber,
then our naval attache at Berlin. Capt. Barber asked Mr.
White what he proposed recommending to the state de
partment at Washington. Mr. White’s reply was, 'I favor
it. We will have three thousand islands and will not miss
a few; Germany is a great country and we should retain
her friendship.’ Capt. Barber objected; said this was no
time for Germany to make demands and to set the terms
on which we could take the Philippines, and that it was
equal to declaring war on the United States, and that he
would advise the secretary of the navy to send our At
lantic fleet to the relief of Dewey through the Suez canal
at once.
“Germany placed a battleship betwen Dewey and the
Spanish squadron in the bay of Manila. Dewey told the
German commander he would get hurt, as he was going
to forget he was there when he began firing at the enemy.
The commander of the English squadron took his position
alongside of the United States fleet and the Germans
moved away and the battle with the Spaniards began. You
know the results. From that day to this, war with Eng
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land and United States fighting together against Germany
u as inevitable. The “invisible censor” killed the 1 irst part
of this story. No good could have come from printing it.
“In the spring of 1913 the California legislature passed
a land law that made the Japanese quite peevish, to put it
mildly, and for several months the country faced possible
war with Japan. In June, 1913, the Japanese maiines
were put on the transports at Nagasaki to sail for the
Philippines. The whites at Manila were moved fifteen
miles from the shore, the railroads on the islands taken
over by the United States governor and all preparations
to defend the island brought to a war footing and it looked
like a “go.” England then stepped in. About that time Sir
Arthur Cecil Spring-Rice, now ambassador to the
United States from England, was in New ^ ork on his way
fo the Hawaiian islands to climb the volcanic mountains.
He at that time held no official position with the British
ci own. He suddenly left New \ork tor San Francisco,
took ship for Honolulu, Hawaii, but never got off the boat,
continued on to Yokohoma, Japan, went immediately to
Tokio and was invited to address the Japanese parlia
ment then in session, and during nis address spoke of the
United States and England, coupling both countries to
gether thirty-two times and always saying “we.” The
Japs at once took the hint and took their marines ashore
and the trouble was over. This was a corking good story
written up and ready to put on the wire, when the button
at Washington was pressed and it was never sent. Again
the ‘invisible censorship.’
“Naturally the question arises in the minds of all of
us. what is the use of a censorship when the newspapers
and press associations of the United States work so closely
with our government? The only answer I can think of is
that it is easy for publishers in times of peace to control
themselves, but they are only human and under the great
stress of war may not always act with cool deliberation.
“What the publishers are afraid of is that the censor
ship board may not use good judgment in suppressing and
releasing news. And on the other hand the government
is just as afraid of the judgment of the publisher. I be
lieve public sentiment would put any publication out of
business that would print anything that hurt our country,
no difference how badly we wanted the news.”
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JOINING THE ARMY
“Your Country Needs You,” read the sign, I felt a
thrill along my spine and resolved to do my bit; they’d
let me fight, no doubt of it; I felt as husky as could be,
there surely were no flies oh me.
The sergeant made me peel my clothes, he jabbed my
paunch and tweaked my nose, and thumped my heart
and felt my dome and jotted down, “nobody home.” He
tapped and measured up and down and then addressed
me with a frown, “Your periscope is on the blink, you’d
do for hiking, I don’t think; you’re color-blind and short of
height, your tummy is too proud to fight, your heart is
weak, ’tis plain to see, you have a spavin on one knee,
your lungs, I find, aren’t over strong, I fear you won’t be
with us long.
Your appetite must be alright because your shape it
is a fright. If you should wear a soldier suit, the enemy
would laugh and hoot, or take you for an armored car if
they should spy you from afar. I must confess you will
not do—back to the feeding trough for you.
I said, “The joke’s on me alright, I thought you want
ed men to fight, but what you want is fashion plates; not
men to bust the foemen’s pates,” and then I climbed back
in my duds and hiked off home to plant some spuds.—
(Anacortes American.)
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