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Show Ifnal Newspaper Week , c;crific;mt tlian at any time since the Bill rep. Wc w.is wl-itten into the constitution, guar-:R guar-:R !r anion? other things freedom of the h i'.'.ft'"1? 'tll(, observance of National Newspaper 5 ;rt Urom October 1 to 8. Significant because of '' trrcat nations in the world today, the United "J stands alone as a guardian of a free press. (om 0f the press in all of the nations but "' hs been killed and in its place a giant propo-' propo-' V'machine under the thumb of a dictator has ? -ubstituted. And even in our country, attacks ino- made to shackle its liberties of unob-Sctcd unob-Sctcd thinking and writing. H Freedom of press is a vital cog in the machinery 1 1 . Sliccessful democracy. With out it the Bill of 3 p:,,ts would soon crumble in ruin, for a free press, : speech, the right to assembly, and freedom of . rjCt:on g0 'hand in hand. One cannot be molested f rii('jj01lt feaving the others in a precarious position. ' It is particularly interesting to note what the two dential candidates have to say regarding free-. free-. ) j, of press. Both President Roosevelt and Wen-diJMVilkie Wen-diJMVilkie have felt the sting of criticism through nm-papers unfriendly and at odds with their , jJ(,jnts of view, yet the following is a direct quota-A quota-A tion from each : ld "Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of t? democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully on! challenged," President Roosevelt stated recently lain un, "There is nothing more essential to the preserva-lion preserva-lion o fa free American Democracy than 'the pres- iTi ervation of a free American press," Wendell Wil-kie Wil-kie states. The United States is the last stronghold of per-m per-m sonal rights and liberties it will remain so only as tk people of this nation refuse to allow any sub- vtrsive elements to infringe on those rights. ec; The press of free America from the small weekly lilant to the giant metropolitan daily join together in the hope that in the observance of National 3 Newspaper Week that readers will become more m conscious of the public service the press of America is performing and that in return the press may al- ways be able to present news untainted by a propa-I propa-I ganda office, free from-a censor's scrutiny and an i unbiased chronicle of events as they are. |