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Show Prevailing Opinions Comment of the American Prets Cnioehip in Action 1 We have heard people advocate government censorship of newspapers news-papers "to keep them from printing print-ing things that are not true." So we are interested in an example of -how censorship actually operates. oper-ates. In. Berlin, ths nasi newspaper Der Angnff devoted a full page to depicting John L. Lewis aa America's "Red Napoleon." A photograph pho-tograph of Mr. Iwis reclining in a chair was captioned. "A Picture Which United Statea Papers Were Not Allowed to Print" although It has been widely circulated in an American magazine. Another was captioned, ''Lewis Shields His Colleague, the Female 'Minister of Labor' of America. Perkins. From Nosy Photographers" although the woman in the picture is not Secretary Perkins, but Mr. Lewis' daughter. A third, ahowing Mr. Iewis seated - beside General Hugh Johnson, was captioned, "At an Anti-Nazi Meeting, the Trade-Union Trade-Union Leader Is Seen With a High Official of the Government in the Front Row." Uncensored newspapers have been known to print things that wer not true. But far more harm la done when government, to mislead mis-lead the governed, suppresses truth and compels publication of ' untruth. And government, censorship cen-sorship alwaya results in that. San Francisco News. Notes on Barbarism In an article called 'The Scepter of Freedom." ths Berlin Schwarxe Knrpa. organ of the nasi secret political police, deridea America for arming its policsmen with clubs. Thanks to the nazls. the paper boasts, Germany haa abandoned aban-doned "this barbaric custom." and instead arms ita polics with pistols. pis-tols. Now. we're not Inclined to spin fine distinctions on barbarism or anything else, but we sort of feel we'd rather take our chancea with an oaken billy, even In th hands of the rougher sort of cop, than with th barking end of nasi repeater. re-peater. The billy elub may be barbaric, but it's heap leas lethaL Pittsburgh Press. Third Term Twaddle Governor Elmer A. Benson of Minnesota told Interviewers In New York that he favored a third term for President Roosevelt, and Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan Mich-igan the aame afternoon at Bridgeport, Conn., said hs had found an "appreciable" third-term sentiment. These friends and would-be supporters of the president, along with Governors Earl of Pens- aylvania and Allred of Texas, who indulge in the same brand of talk, Impresa us as rendering the new deal and its leader just about the worst possible service. If the American people have one political tradition, credo or prejudice preju-dice to which they hold more stubbornly than the others, it is that two terms as president are enough for any man. Third-term talk never yet haa benefited a president, always has been used to his disadvantage, always is pounced upon gleefully by his enemies. Talk of a third term for the president today merely sets up a straw man for opponents to kick. Let's have constructive attack to correct things that are wrong with the administration. But why encourage this hoary bogey man and build up a blind hysteria? San Francisco News. The Way of a LqiiUtur To the ordinary citizen, Mr. John Q Public. It seems Inexplicable Inexplica-ble just why th legislature finda it necessary at every regular session ses-sion to postpone its serious work to the last few weeks, then to th last few daya and finally to ths last hours and , minutes. Little wonder that the statute books of Illinois are loaded with laws whose Import is little understood by the 7.000.000 people who must live under them. Would Nebraska's unicameral atyla of legislature eradicate some of the abuses? It might b worth trying. Bloomington till.) Pan-tagraph. |