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Focuses on the issue of prior restraint, a form of censorship the government cannot impose on privately-owned media in the absence of exceptional circumstances, on high schools. Consideration of prior restraint as permissible by federal Circuit Court of Appeals if there are substantive and procedural guidelines; Case of a 17-year-old co-editor of high school newspaper who initially faced an instance of prior restraint; Representation of case on an opportunity to determine the reaction of students and school administrators in affected states.

The article discusses a study which examines the efforts in controlling the press in Southern U.S. during the reconstruction from 1863-1870. It relates the threat made by General James H. Wilson to suspend the newspaper "Albany Patriot" due to its writings on military or civil government in Georgia. It relates the competition in Republican newspapers in the U.S. states such as Texas and Arkansas. It also discusses the suppression made by Commander Daniel Sickles against editor R. P. Waring, the warning made by General John Schofield with the editor of an editorial published by "Richmond Times," and the issuance by General John Pope of the General Order No. 49 which prohibits officials from giving advertising to newspapers.