| Show P 1 r Pr P r e va i I i n ng g O Opinions pi p i n ni i d s 's s 1 Comment of the iho American Press I In Dark Darkest st Europe How many American readers appreciate the difficulties und under t which our correspondents Jabor In their efforts to supply their newspapers with accurate acc accounts ac ac- ac- ac c counts of t eve events ts and c conditions I in Europe through the officially lally clogged information channels of that darkly curt curtained ined continent When misguiding news finds its way into nto Ameri American an press dispatches dispatches dispatches dis dis- dis- dis patches the fault Is usually not with the American correspondent but with the tho European censorship censorship censor censor- ship Albin E. E Johnson who has for many years reported events from every corner of ot Europe celebrates celebrates cele cele- brates his his' return to the United State States by iY airing the m methods practiced practiced tlc d b by most of ot the the governments of continental Europe to cover up upa a actual conditions He scores scores the unreliable ble nature of ot the news dished out out for fori foreign correspondents correspondents' correspondents dents dents' and which oft often n finds its way into reputable American newspapers and declares that al almost almost al- al most invariably some government government government govern govern- ment or other Is is officially re responsible responsible responsible re- re for o i it Naturally in the capitals where dictatorship is stiffest Moscow v w Berlin Rome Warsaw Vienna and Belgrade Belgrade to to list the worst of offenders news news' news gathering is Is' Iscon con con- ned t to what the powers that hat be for state reasons choose to make malte it There it Is controlled or contaminated contaminated contaminated con con- at it Its ita source Even in Paris the press is for forded ed to take tak an unwitting part in political deceptions deceptions deceptions de de- de- de that emanate from gov governmental governmental gov gov- headquarters The iThe dark clouds of war broodIng broodIng brooding brood brood- ing over Europe are no more threatening to the of ot that continent than tho the black cloak of ot secrecy and ignorance in which its peoples are enshrouded enshroud enshroud- ed by their rulers A news gatherer gatherer gath gath- in Moscow Rome or Berlin who dared to tell tel a truth in In Inde defiance defiance de de- de fiance of the censor simply pears Hitler has suspended 2000 German newspapers for printing the facts A foreign corr correspondent spon dent who digs out any valuable ble bo information by his own efforts is 18 ji 0 given his walking papers as has occurred lately in two notable in instances instances in in- stances in Italy And in Moscow there is no such thing as an a newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper only a n sheet of soviet propaganda prop prop- Americans anxious to know what is happening in the old world are arc naturally resentful of such tactics But th the gr greatest test crime of European censors today is committed against their own peoples Los Los Times Worry's Other Name Name fear Fear Measuring things things' by their Influence Influence in influence In- In fluence on human happiness worry must be put down in the front rank of ot bad habits Tho The evil of anxiety is that it usually concerns ma matters matters' over ever which we are arc powerless When we can cnn do anything about a problem we are up and about it When we can do nothing we fall into the habit of brooding over things that are beyond con con con- trot That is worry Worry's Vorry s other name is Is' fear We Ve foresee a situation in which we know that we shall not be at nt our our best We worry about it and thus unfit ourselves for tor d alii with the situation in any of its aspects We Wo close the door of the mind to every sudden inspiration every ciery flash of courage or hope It Is the tho worrier himself who t takes kes the cup up of lif life and with his own hands pours i into to it the wormwood wormwood wormwood worm worm- wood and the gall Rochester N N. Y Times Not th the Al At I Smith W Way Alfred E. E Smith we suspect would criticize the new deal at at many points His very very step In helping organize the American n Liberty league would suggest that that- He Ho might even come conio out in the open and fight the tho new deal deals He might conceivably support a Republican Re Re Republican e. e publican ti ticket ket But we dont don't see e him letting himself bo used as ns a n stooge for tor a movement whose real object object- would be not to win but to promote t Republican success There ma ot of fighting arc are many ways was o but this doesn't J look olt like an Al Smith way Milwaukee Sentinel Bit Bif Too Clever From Japan lapan and China comes ne news nes s of a man undone by his own own devices This man man a manufacturer of ot matches all but caused an International international international inter Inter- national situation until the facts were were disclosed Making the matches matches' in Japan he hit upon the tho scheme of selling them in China by Dy putting on each box a legend which meant down with Japan The Chinese he rca rca- I would applaud the sen senti- senti I- I meat ment and buy the matches It so happened ed that Ute the matches went on sale at a time when China suddenly announced a c campaign campaign cam cam- m- m to suppress all nIl anti Japa nese propaganda The matchmaker matchmaker matchmaker match match- maker went broke and his his' stock was dumped on the tho Japanese ese market to cause lusty reverberations reverberations reverberations and exposure of ot the whole scheme China is absolved of a propaganda plot and the blame is fastened where it belongs on on the shoulders of the man who was hoist with his own petard Oak O Oak Oakland kland k- k land T Tribune W Wasted sted on Desert Air The soft word is all aU right but it still must be implemented with the the bi big stick I Mayor D. D E. E Rymer of Scottsbluff Scottsbluff Scotts Scotts- bluff blutt N Neb b. b has ju just t l learned this painful truth The mayor had an nn idea of a anoble anoble anoble noble experiment of ot politeness parking Instead of ot a tag to tell teU the judge vIola violators ors received a billet doux asking cooper cooperation tl ti i n in III It terms r-ms r of sweet reasonableness It It worked for tor a little while until old human nature reasserted its itself elf t The mayor reluctantly has come cometo cometo to th the conclusion that the pocket pocket- book is more sensitive than the conscience and parking violators will again in have h-avo to tell teli the judge On a al small amali nall scale this illustrates a large principle Ve We are not yet ready for the millennium San San Francisco Chronicle I r |
