Show Bakers Baker's Censorship zip WHEN HEN our American boys first be began an to don uni uniforms forms not only the thc mothers of boys bos but hut tho the mothers moth moth- ers of girls experienced alarm Ono One particular mother that we have e in mind was wasen very en much concerned over o an affair of or the tho heart that had d a-d sprung up between her er daughter and a sol soldier Like most mothers she felt that the tho girl was too young and needed cd not only parental gu guidance dance but military protection In spite of all her pleadings no impression could be made on the girl and she appealed to the commanding officer of the post poste with witha a n happy solution Sho She wanted this particular soldier I locked up in in the guardhouse until the troops left for new fields It would roul seem tl that at Mr Baker is just as ns solicitous for the the public welfare as the tho war department issues an order forbidding officers and of the military Intelligence bureau from giving information to senators representatives cp or con congressional congressional commit committees tees Mr Baker in his fretful moments perhaps fears that the tho public and Congress are arc getting betting too thick and with the view of preventing g the time affair going further proposes to lock Congress up in the prisons of ignorance In view of tho the encomiums S that have been heaped upon the war department depart depart- meat ment b by Democrat press it would be hard bard to conceive conceive con eon of this departure being a measure e of self self-pr self tion iron We c do not predict any nuy more success for die ille effort of the war department than attended the act activity ity y of the mother whose daughter by tho the way married her bel soldier sweetheart before he ailed for France I Mr Ir Baker fails to grasp the turn in public affairs I which strengthens the thc union b between been een the public and Con- Con 7 press gress He I-e was slow to admit that the war was closer th than n 1000 miles and to be seems j just st as ns slow sloe to recognize rec rec- that tho the war is over o The order of the war wary war warde department department department de de- can con be considered only as another movement to 10 further the abnormal government established in thiC this this- C country in the interest of u. u rL military efficiency f Under thus mis lillS l-egl l regime i Congress has nas hos been more or less of ofa h. h a rubber stamp and the vices vice president h has s been a p poetical po I cheat lical lu luxury The powers of government o have ha rested with the executive branch and extraordinary powers have o been delegated to members of the cabinet as well weH I ns ns as to individuals with no public responsibilities and d no pledges n to tho the principals laid down in the constitution The Ilio situation no doubt makes for political power but it is is not in in harmony with th tho existing c spirit of the Amer- Amer Jean ican people Our people supported a changed form of D g the interest of military efficiency and und now that the war is over they will insist f return to the fundamental principles of or our government upon a n As a result Mr l Bakers Baker's effort to keep Congress in tho the Mark dark ark can count for forr little in the final reckoning His ITis plan of ot the a. a avoiding approaching storm is as impossible as ns ast the one pursued by ostriches ches in their native e haunts t a ten to s. s i- i |