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Show I THE EOX ELDER NEWS, Brigham City, Utah Editorials Tuesday, October 1, 1963 Lord, Give Me This Day! No." "Margie and Jaynie?" By Ralph McGill "No." "Mrs. Veatch?" It "No." It was just a few minutes later when Mrs. PW was swatting flies on the ceiling. That's right. The glass in the storm door was broken and consequently, there were about half a dozen of those little winged creatures buzzing about. (Swat) "There," she said, "One more and I've got 'em all." As she swatted them, they fell to the floor. "Better sweep 'em up," I suggested. Mrs. PW was too intent on bagging the last one. looked over. DougSuddenly las (our adventurer) had stooped over and now he was standing erect, his mouth moving in a chewing motion. "Douglas, what have you got in your mouth?" I demanded. Count the flies?" Mrs. PW cried horrified. ... by Eruca A fellow staffer fust Oh, gads! Informed me that in the backshop, all who feel the desire are feasting on bread and cheese. Ole Pow Wow just adores bread and cheese. But he's just returned from another session with the dentist and his mouth has that Jayne Mansfield feeling. You know puffed up. Hope Miss Mansfield doesn't mind the comparison. (She reads the Box Elder News all the time). It is intended as a sort of compliment. mean she does have nice teeth. I I the news, Speaking of people it something that President Kennedy was in our fair state last week? Quite an honor to host the chief executive. Four highway patrol troopers from our local area helped to form in wasnt Well, he didnt have a fly. It was a piece of toilet tissue or a potato peeling or something like that. The moral of this story is always sweep up your flies. his escort. However, it did escape the attention of some or nearly so that JFK was even here. Scott during dinner the other evening: "Well, Scott, do you know who is coming to Salt Lake tomorrow?" "Craig?" he said with wide-eye- Of course, the next day after Scott had seen "PT 109," the movie of JFK's war time experiences, the President suddenly became a very big man. d anticipation. BOX ELDER NEWC Chat. W. Claybaugh, Publlth.r A weekly newtpaper eitabllshed In 1896. publithed every Tuetday and entered at Second Clatt Matter at the port office In Brigham City. Utah, under the act of March I. 1879. Subscription rate 11.50 per year, In connection payable In advance) with the Box Elder Journal (pub$6.00 lished Thursdays) per yean 81 00 for 0 month!) tingle copy, 10 centi. r The average American today is 29 Vi years old according to the Book of Knowledge. In 1920 the average age was only 25 years is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. The beauty of that simile teaches humility, especially to an advertising or newspaper man, whose job it is to use words. And I am one who believes (and I write as a sentimentalist about our business) that all of us, ad men, reporters, publishers, owners, editors all of us have need of humility before the power that is in the words which we produce. I never go down to the press room, hearing and feeling the smooth hum of Its precision speed, but that I feel humble before it. It Is something like holding a sea shell up to the ear and hearing in it what a poet has told is the noise that time makes as it passes by on its inexorable march. The steady, muted roar of the presses seems to me the noise that words make all the written words tapped out on typewriters, caught in the hot lines of type, pressed Into the matrixes, bolted in metal plates to the drums of the press all of them speaking at once to produce the steady voice of the presses as they,print, fold, cut and count the pages of our newspapers, and saying I am the power and the beauty of words." I recall being taken to see an old editor when I was a framed by his desk the familiar old young boy who-hamotto: "Lord, give me this day my daily idea, and forgive me the one I had yesterday," There aie days when all of us toiling in the vineyard of words have reason for that motto so fast do things change, and so often is that which seemed so sure today demonstrated to be net so sure. The fact of a free press, and the full meaning of that I honestly believe, is the chief prop of this free pliKi'-e- , nation. And God knows we bear a heavy responsibility. And truth, if it becomes trite, is yet truth. But, I say quite frankly, feeling my own guilt as I do, and pointing no accusing finger at anyone, that every publisher, every board of directors, every editor, and staff need to examine into the meaning of the phrase, Freedom of the Press" and determine if they are using it as a tool or a cliche? Certainly a free and responsible press, and a press which has something to say on its editorial pages, is of great value to advertisers. The ads are of more value in a newspaper where character and integrity are estab' lished. I strongly believe that if w;e do not use our freedom in public service, in controversial issues, and in compassionate awareness of the human condition, we may and should lose our freedom. It Is guaranteed? To be sure it is. But, we are up against a fact. It is an important one for all Americans, to whom the daily paper, with its ads, its news, features and editorials, is as much a casual part of their lives as the bottle of milk left on the doorstep; and to those of us who write and produce newspapers. It is, namely, that nothing is guaranteed except it be guaranteed in the minds of the people and their loyalties. I recall going to Austria at the time the Germans moved there in the spring of 1938. For me it was a sort "Well then I dont know who is coming." "It's President Kennedy." "Oh. And with this he went back to spooning his soup. cl is Editor, The Atlanta Constitution written in Proverbs that 'a word fitly spoken old. of journey on the road to Damascus. There, for the first time, I watched all rights, guaranteed in a written, published constitution, disappear because the will for them had disappeared long before. I saw men and women without warrant; I watched abuses of people because of their religion; I saw books burned and I saw magazines and newspapers from outside Austria removed. None daied protest. In fact, so bad was the economic and political situation in Austria that a of the people cheered the changes. I have never forgotten it. I have no wish to forget. And so, today we will continue to enjoy, and have available, freedom of speech and press only to long as the people recognize that we use it and that we deserve that freedom. It is important now, I believe, in this time of racial crisis to defend the one great American ideal that of equality of citizenship. We Americans are a synthesis of many peoples, many races, many languages, and a diversity of religions. It is the ideal, the principle, that makes us American. It seems to me highly important that American newspapers play a part in establishing this principle for all Americans. I strongly feel that to do the job of protecting freedom of press, we must become more and more like the image of our true selves which the Constitution of our country envisions. And that applies to all of us ad men, news men, business men, professional men. The people can understand and defend the press and the American system only if we understand and express our freedom. LDS Primary Sots Orthopedic Clinic Oct. 1 1 raa-jorii- y BE On Completes All new 'applicants must bring a completed application form, signed by their family doctor, With them. 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The missile was launched The training covers the com-bfrom the Johnston on Aug. 28 and tactical skills required a fleet exercise. of each Marine. Under selected during the Marine learns instructors, The ASROC Is a combination to take his place In small com- missile and torpedo and has bat units, such as the four-mabecome operational aboard fire team and the squad. most ships engaged In antiThe training is conducted submarine warfare. under live firing conditions and The Johnston is on regular Includes guerrilla warfare deployment with the Sixth fleet, tactics, amphibious landing pro- the major element of American cedures and field tactics. seapower in the European area. 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