Show j i 0 rI r I t y t I 7 Look at t America B By NORMAN CHANDLER r m Chairman Newspaper Publishers Publisher Committee ERE ON OUR 0 OWN N WERE WE'RE Well We'll sin sink k or or s swim vim here in America depending on whether we are competent compe compe- tent able to solve Q our r own v NORMAN CHANDLER problems v The dictators say democracy wont won't too work work too inefficient The very word democracy is under fire Today our form or of government faces a challenge 5 5 as as s serious as it did when the 13 colonies 5 united j Well y ell not q quite ite We are forty eight stron strong and well well-u well united states now We We have ave a large share of all the worlds world's wealth We have discovered and de developed de- de developed elop d an astounding number of re re- re sources We have scientists thinkers chinkers do doers ens rs to spare s spare pare We have skills and arts and nd t traditions and experiences now We have used up the wilderness but weve we've replaced it with thousand a new frontiers Four or five years agoa ago agoa a Yale professor C. C C C. C Furnas wrote a bo book k called The Next H Hundred und d Years I Jn In n that book he pointed out the pitiful I little strip of know knowledge ledge we ve have haye mapped and the vast areas of wilderness and ignorance ahead of us f i it t I i When hen he wrote that bock we had hadnot hadnot JI not yet discovered I mide and its i chemical relatives ha haf drug has already saved more h human man lives than the War Var of the Revolution cost Atomic energy with ith thousands of times the energy of gasoline was a adream 1 dream five years ago I It t is only a y today day but it is already newspaper I news news news-a a step nearer perhaps very close 1 I It t is up to us in America today to J create our own sty style Ie develop our own I art try tryout out our own tastes Are we efficient enough Can we do doit doit doit it W We can i if we keep free our means of comm communication and expression If progress progress and and failure failure can can be reported reported re- re i ported without hindrance if the things men do in do-in In in politics and sociology and science and arid business can business can be discussed compared and weighed we shall have havea a great era of progress progress greater greater than all th progress progress that hat has gone before c I JL J 1 r f y j t. t tI m And all alI we heed to guarantee that and aud fearless fearless fear fear- ear ear- freedom eow is to gr grow grow is a strong I less press Need We Ve do not need to need only to toi i create such a press We i keep it You are reading a sample ol olit of S it this moment f i W We e need only to appreciate it conserve conserve con con- I serve it defend it keep it free I NOTE The Newspaper Publishers Committee composed of o Oj ref leading American Newspapers publishes these messages s Y each week The force which unites these the their recognition of their responsibility to you the reader ruder |