Deseret Evening News | 1900-03-03 | Page 17 | The Press Censor

I TILE lIlE Fib ENSOn liB Ile afore Abuse Any Man fall lu In a 11 CalLI Camp I There Is III perhaps no man connected wIth the entire ann army service who reo re cehe more abuse who ho Is moro more bullied and cajoled or who insists more firmly upon tilt the recognition ot of his than the military press pross censor Ills HIli d decisions are laws and the workings ot of othis his blue pencil penell are QS as infallible as Is tilt the Popes word The single reason for the tho appointment ot of n a military press censor with an army In the field Is to guard i agaInst any information beIng ole tole or published that I might ml te prove ot of the least s to t the I enem enemy or In an any way plans ot of the general commanding That correspondents In their zeal to furnish details tv to their respective par pa papera pers pera might often otten bf be guilty guilt ot of such n a military broach breach It If there were no mili military tary censors to discriminate le II beyond que question and aud the mIlitary censors dut duty Is n a useful one but he sometimes abuses the tho privileges ot of his responsible posy poll lion Uon or nt at all e events appears to do so soto 0 to the thc mOil men who have to put every one ot of their written reports under his hIli eye CI CIto to be hacked hackerl to pieces at hIs discretion At least It Is not a peasant timing after Cler n a choice item ot of news hu has been tolled and fought fur and then set let Town lown on paper In what the writer con confiders Isis hIs best style to have hoo the mot most I important portions the parts that took the tho greatest effort to find out and make makeup UP what is the reports real news newa value alue I bodily lifted out or to speak more liter literally literally ally crossed through with A blue pen pencil cil II fine ne writing and all and at a time I when Ihen to the correspondents mind the I information could have hae work worked no pOll pea Ible harm hium whatsoever Then is II when I thew press pres censor finds out Just how I str ng the English language II la In ex es