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...Case for Secrecy in vital matters is simple, convincing, unquestioned by the U.S. press. Is there a further case for an absolute, rigid, blanket policy of secrecy, extending to facts which on their face do not seem vital, in many instances have been already printed? The Army & Navy hold that there is such a case...
...press itself was largely responsible for the issuance of the code, hoping thereby to escape from the uncertainty of not knowing what was printable. Actually, the list, couched necessarily in blanket terms, solved few problems for the press. Most of the important news of today comes under its terms and no reporter or editor can check everything back with the censor. It did not relieve newsmen of their main risk, which is not merely of being fined and sent to jail under the Espionage Act, but of being accused of being enemies of their country...
...Faces should be vizarded in helmets of windproof cloth, with holes for eyes and mouth, pads of blanket cloth for nose and cheeks...
...Winter visited Carolina yesterday and covered the campus with a half-inch blanket of snow for the first time since March 14 of last year...
...with all transport agencies overburdened, the rails may gain some immediate advantage from an increase. It will nevertheless cost them traffic later. A blanket increase falls heaviest on high-grade, high-rate freight and on long-distance shippers. The former is the most vulnerable part of railroad business, is best adapted to shipping by truck. The latter are the prime movers in a long-term threat to the railroads: the decentralization of industry toward its supply sources and markets, U.S. regional integration...