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Show j! AN OPEN FORUM I; We believe it is the policy of all news-I; news-I; papers to open their columns for the dis-;! dis-;! ' cussion of questions which affect the gen ' oral public with the restriction, of course, that all suqh discussion must be of a dig-Hi. dig-Hi. nified character and must be identified by r . (he writer's signature. Since time im- memorial this has been the policy of the I News and articles on this question and that have been accepted and published ,; and space given for a reply, should there I ; 2j nnv wno cared to make a reply. I j K, All communications which appear over j I the signature of CITIZEN or the real I I name of the writer are his or her own I I sentiments and the newspaper should no I I more be blamed for them than if the I same sentiments should be expressed tin ' U- on the street. That which appears in tho I: I editorial columns of a newspaper tin I, I publication must stand back of as ifc- I Hwn position and therefore whenever reader sees something in a communicated I article he should not beein immediately I I toberate the paper but if he has anv- I thing to say concerning the article ho I nmy write a dignifiorl ronlv and receive I a space in the mbBcatr- ?Mst the same at r I the other felW. Anr! -vo believe it is u I good thintr, sometir:..- to have discus- I sions in the public pn't on questions I which effect all of us for the newspaper ; is the servant of everybody and should be the forum of the community where all matters might be intelligently discussed." discus-sed." We heartily concur in the above from the well edited Box Elder News. |