Show Round Trip for News Ak A PARTY of Americans returning to this country country coun- coun A 1 try remarked upon landing at New York that the most satisfying experience of an intended intend intend- ed pleasure tour of Europe was not found in Europe at all It was getting their feet back on American soil They saw a great deal of in interest interest interest in- in abroad said but but the terror terest they of th the continent growing out of unremitting fear fear- of war put their own nerves on edge to such a. a de a-de degree de- de gree that they wanted to forget the whole trip tripas as soon as as they could If we had hd relied on the censored European press and the meager accounts of what was going on even in the uncensored papers we would have been all at sea But we were able to get American American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean papers over there and tho though gh the news they contained was a week old it was still news to tous jus us and to our foreign friends when we told them what had happened It seemed odd to us that the news had to make a round trip from the old world to the new and then back to where it came from That was the expression of one of the party who said also that she had learned the true meaning of freedom under the American American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean flag as she never had understood it before The same point is made in wholly different manner in a resolution adopted at the Chicago meeting of the directors of the American America Society S of Newspaper Editors in their regular fall session ses ses- ses- ses sion The document was brief and to the point While readers in countries governed by dictators dictators dic die and burdened by censorship were de deprived deprived deprived de- de of any information antagonistic to the claims and ambitions of their leaders in the United States the story was presented daily the resolution read Unrestrained by fear of reprisal American editors aided by news services services ser ser- vices that spared neither money nor effort to get the facts kept their public constantly alive aliveto to each new fact The newspaper readers of the United States were more familiar with the complicated complicated com corn succession of incidents abroad than was the public in the nations involved It will always be that way as long as as' Americ Americans Amer Amer- ic jeans ns refuse to countenance any abridgement of their fundamental rights as enunciated in the constitution The guarantee of freedom of speech of the pre press s of r religion ligion and of the right of peaceable assembly are the foundation stones of all other precious rights and privileges of this people Remove any anyone one and our democratic structure will be weakened They are not free from the plotting of enemies within our gates nor fr from m intermittent attack Americans must stand ever ready to defend them The price of liberty is eternal vigilance |