In this article, Johnson explores the multiple newspapers that came under scrutiny from the postmaster general, under the censorship law. Local postmasters were ordered to send any and all suspicious letters dealing with the war, to Washington. Johnson introduces The Masses newspaper, was the most famous to come under fire by Burelson. To be censored under the law the material forwarded must be willfully obstructive or disloyal. Numerous papers would come under the same scrutiny, however papers with friends in Washington where able to have their circulation restored with help from Wilson. Washington continued to receive suspicious magazines and items from the mail until march of 1919. The supreme court, later sanctioned Burelson censorship