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Show PRESS IS UNITED IN SAFEGUARDING THE COUNTRY'S INTERESTS. The safe transport of General Pershing's division divi-sion to France n feat accomplished without mlshnp and without publicity should provoke not only nn npprcclntion of the management of the expedition, but also n tribute to the press of the country, many of whose members have had knowledge that Pershing's men were on the ocean since the day of their departure. The incident in-cident should show the folly of the desire for a censorship which some officers of the administration adminis-tration hnvc declared to be so necessary for the proper conduct of tho war. The editors of the country can be relied upon to snfcgunrd the nation's interest quite ns prudently pru-dently ns any minor functionary of an executive department. In this connection it is worth recalling re-calling thnt the only publication concerning the whole transaction which has smacked at nil of a "leak" was the passing of tho news of the soldiers' sol-diers' arrival In France by George Creel's curiously curi-ously named bureau of public information. Creel's burcnu handled the news in such n manner ns to call down the censure of the secretary secre-tary of wnr, who has since taken from Creel's hands nil military information -thus' following tho cxnmplc previously set by Secretary Lansing Lan-sing nnd Secretary Daniels. Just what there in left for Creel nnd his assistants, as-sistants, except to draw pay and publish the dnlly bulletin with its stale news, is hard to determine. de-termine. Yet The Sun docs not suppose thnt he or nny of his staff will be nt once separated from tho payroll. |