The American Legion Weekly [Volume 2, No7 (February 13, 1920)] . boyscould send home picture post cards » began to do heroic things. When I wrote them, thecensor would con-sider them care-fully, and in hisjudgment passthem. But pre-sently he com-plained. He said,You seem towant to use aname in everystory. It seemedhopeless to explainthat that was theessence of news-paper reporting. Later on, how-ever, when the rulewas made againstmentioning amans name or tell-ing his story if inthe course of hisexploit he becamea casualty, the ex-planation had tobe given. The censors toldthe correspondentsof t
The American Legion Weekly [Volume 2, No7 (February 13, 1920)] . boyscould send home picture post cards » began to do heroic things. When I wrote them, thecensor would con-sider them care-fully, and in hisjudgment passthem. But pre-sently he com-plained. He said,You seem towant to use aname in everystory. It seemedhopeless to explainthat that was theessence of news-paper reporting. Later on, how-ever, when the rulewas made againstmentioning amans name or tell-ing his story if inthe course of hisexploit he becamea casualty, the ex-planation had tobe given. The censors toldthe correspondentsof the new rule, andagreatprotestwentup. Why cant you tell the story and notgive the mans name? the censor asked. The correspondents explained thatthey could sit in front of a Paris cafeand write more heroism than the whole F. could perform if they werent tieddown to names and places. Then thecensor made a Solomon of a suggestion. Why cant you give the mansname, said the formal typewrittenmemorandum to correspondents, andtell his exploit, but not say that he. Censors have other qualities besides the ability to determine what news,if published, would be of value to the enemy. This picture of NewEngland soldiers bathing in the Marne at Mery after the Chateau Thierrydrive was held up because it was immodest. which showed the square in Neufchateauwith the statue of Jeanne in the middleof it and the name of the town plainlyprinted. At home, the newspapers were undervoluntary censorship, but the BostonHerald, which had no correspondent ofits own in France, printed a map ofthe region where the Yankees weretraining, with a big arrow pointing toNeufchateau as division headquarters. TO indicate personalities I had used became a casualty?phrases, all of them carefully sub- w™„ ™,iiri ™ mitted to and allowed by the censor. Imight say The men from New England,and a little later the men from Maineor from Connecticut. I could saya colonel who was formerly judge ofthe South Boston po
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