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Show This Week Is National Newspaper Week . . . This is National Newspaper Week a week we are told, in which newspapers are given an opportunity opportun-ity to extoll their own virtues; to elaborate on the services they render and to warn on the state of affairs af-fairs were it not for newspapers, without seemingly being to boastful. Extolling the virtues of the Springville Herald We believe this newspaper is like a visit from a friend when it arrives in your home. It has something to say, something to tell about someone you know. It is like a neighbor. It tells about familiar folks and familiar places. It tells what it has heard. This newspaper also travels far and wide to army posts and to navy ships acting as a connecting link between the serviceman and his home town. The Springville Herald Renders .Service Giving public notice to national and local campaigns, such as the Red Cross, the Heart Fund,, the Polio drive, city news, school news, church notices and benefits. This newspaper also carries announcement in the form of advertising of the many articles offered for sale and for what price, to its readers weekly. It records the happenings large and small which take place in the community each and every week throughout the year. Few. people realize the effort and skill which go into the production of even a small weekly newspaper. Few are aware of the number of people it requires to secure the news, to wTrite it, set it, page it and print it; to fold the paper, address it and mail , it, to say nothing of the machinery involved in its production or the record keeping details required. To warn on the state of affairs of a city or county without a newspaper A place without a newspaper would be one without information, without education, without truth, and without freedom. Henry Ward Beecher once said, "Newspapers are the schooling of the common people. The endless book, the newspaper is our national glory." Bernard Baruch has stated that "the press is our conscience, our guide and our informant." Napoleon realized the part which newspapers played in his time when he said "Four hostile newspapers news-papers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets." bayon-ets." Newspapers today hold as important a place and their responsibility is as great as it was when Thomas Jefferson said, "And were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without a newspaper or a newspaper without a government, I would not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." Like so many institutions that have been a part of a scene for a long time, newspapers are quite often taken for granted and so are newspaper freedoms. That is one reason why one week every year is devoted to National Newspaper Week, to. emphasize the role newspapers play as bearers of ideas and communicators communica-tors of information in today's complex society. It was with this concept in mind that the theme: YOUR NEWSPAPER FREEDOM'S FORUM, was chosen for the 1954 National Newspaper Week. |