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Show Prevailing Opinions Comment of the American Prest ' Trouble In the News The unusual makes news. Trouble Trou-ble end misfortune of various kinds auto accidents, crime and war make up a good portion of the news. Trouble and misfortune, misfor-tune, therefore, are unusual They are the exception to the rule that most people, most of tha time, are not afflicted with misfortune and trouble. A visitor from Mars, glancing at our newspapers, might conclude con-clude that tha human race waa constantly beeet by dangers and calamities of all kinds. What the newspapers don't carry' stories about la the vast amount of plain, everyday peaceful living by millions mil-lions of people. They don't print it because it wouldn't be news. So dont let the daily recording of unpleasant and tragic things get you down. If two people were killed and 12 people were hurt in auto accidents in Minneapolis in one day. there are some 900.000 people who weren't hurt or killed in accidents in, the same period. Tha odda are tremendously in your favor that you won't be hurt in accidents. That doesnt mean that the 12 injuries and the two deatha were necessary, and could not have been prevented by proper care and precaution. Nothing should make ua complacent about automobile auto-mobile accidente or any other form of mishap or tragedy, that comes as the result of negligence and poor judgment. But if we witnessed for just one day, all the grief and tragedy trag-edy which afflict people everywhere, every-where, our peace of mind would forever be destroyed. Tragedy ia man's lot. and every man haa his share of It Luckily, it is divided up pretty equally among the earth'a inhabitants and we can all take comfort in the fact that the daily atories of trouble carried car-ried by the newspapers only rarely rare-ly affect us Immediately. The Minneapolis Star. Radio Censorship It Bee) Australia often does things which are worthy of emulation, but Its recent ruling which bars politicians and political speeches from the national chain of radio stations atrikea us aa antidemocratic antidemo-cratic in the worst way. Free speech, and all possible means of transmitting free speech, anoold be an inviolable rule in all countries tbat profess democratic rule. Anything else smacks of censorship and of throttled throt-tled civil tibertlea. The reason' advanced for the ban by the Australian broadcasting broadcast-ing commission ia thst potttictana use broadcasts to exploit their personalities, giving their parties political advantage. The reason ia not very good. If all parties and candidates were given equal time on lb radio, the political advaa- tages as well ss the personalities would just about cancel out. The Minneapolis Star. Crashes Will Not Stop Flying In the early days of the railroad, rail-road, boilers burst, bridges failed frequently, and rails spread or snapped, yet the forward progress prog-ress of the then new mode of transportation proceeded, until today to-day almost absolute ssfety haa been attained. Aviation Is in Its infancy and there are many to offer criticisms and suggestions. . It should be remembered that the railway train, the motor car and the airplane are all machines and under the direction of human beings with brains to think and plan. In general the trend is for increasing in-creasing safety and following the regulations. It must be said, however, that these rules and regulations will still be under the control of the human element for enforcement and the public ahould insist on their being strictly enforced in all cases. Ssfety appliances and aafer conditions con-ditions of travel are constantly being sought and adopted by rail motor and air lines, and the gen-' gen-' eral public will continue to utilize all these modes of transportation in increasing numbers and with increasing aafety. Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, |