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Show National Newspaper Week' Scheduled Octoberl-8 A "Your Right to Know Is the Key to All Your Liberties." This is the slogan for the 1948 observance of National Newspaper News-paper Weey. Announcement of the selection was made today by Carl A. Zielke, manager of the Wisconsin Press Association, chairman of the 1948 National Newspaper Week Committee. National Newspaper Week will be observed Oct. 1 to Oct. 8, following fol-lowing the date precedent established estab-lished 9 years ago when the first observance was sponsored by the Newspaper Association Managers. The NAM planning committee headed by Mr. Zielke includes Cranston Williams, ANPA; Wm. F. Canfield, Inland Daily Press Ass'n; Ralph W. Keller, Minnesota Minne-sota Editorial Ass'n; Ruel Barlow, Illinois Press Ass'n; Stanford Smith' Georgia Press Ass'n; and Din Alcorn, Montana Press Ass'n. Plans for the special observance of National Newspaperboy Day, Oct. 2, are being -made by the I C M A A N P A Newspaperboy Committee, headed by Howard W. Stodghill, Philadelphia (Pa.) Bulletin. Bul-letin. "The theme of National Newspaper News-paper Week this year will center about the simple yet thought provoking subject of "How to Read a Newspaper," Mr. Zielke said. "The 1948 committee believes be-lieves that this year's campaign should concern itself again with the promotion of the basic fundamentals funda-mentals of newspapers." Rather than answer the charges of newspaper critics directly, the committee suggests that much more can be accomplished by an objective campaign to inform the public as to the functions and responsibilities of Newspapers and as to the many difficulties, both routine and unusual, which newspapers news-papers must regularly overcome in performing their functions and meeting their responsibilities. "It is the hope of the committee," commit-tee," Mr. Zielke added," that ail newspapers will cooperate to the end that the reading public will have a better appreciation of newspapers by knowing more them." During National Newspaper Week this year publishers will be asked to apply the cub reporter rule of who, what, when, why and how to their own newspapers. If newspaper publishers can answer ans-wer these questions satisfactorily to the reading public, their public relations problems will be largely solved, the committee believes. The committee is indebted to the National Newspaper Promotion Promo-tion Association for this year's National Newspaper Week Slogan. The slogan is a theme of a series of newspaper promotion advertisements adver-tisements written.by a committee of NNPA for members of The Inland Daily Press Association. |