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Show DANGERS OF THE PRESS CENSORSHIP . ARE MOST SERIOUS. Although the recent Crugcr murder cane In New York City is a local affair in one sense, it has attracted nationwide attention becnusc of the demonstration of the need of public surveillance surveil-lance over bureaucracy. The disappearance of the Crugcr girl was to be passed over without attention by the detective bureau for reasons yet to be disclosed. A woman lawyer, through friendship for the family, worked on tho case and finally discovered the remains of the murdered mur-dered girl. Publicity has since forced a swcc-ing swcc-ing Investigation of the detective service. But what would havo been the outcome if New York City had established a press censorship such ns tho nntional administration sought to establish? Under such a system of dictatorship over the press, all the facts would have been suppressed upon 'he pica that publicity would intcrfero with the capture or conviction of the murderer. Tho inefficiency, or worse, of the detective bureau would have been concealed by tho bureau itself. Tho more one thinks of the harm resulting from suppressing a free press, the more incredible incred-ible it seems that any national administration could hnve even asked for such broad powers as wero included in tho proposed legislation. |