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Show Jj&ArflK Mqj from oiHt tt?tort From the Carllnvllle inquirer, Carllnvllle, Illinois: Heaven only knows how many politicians, dancing danc-ing masters and cigar makers have told me how to run a newspaper. Indeed, I believe that newspaper publishing Is one business that every man, woman and child In America considers himself capable of doing and doing well. I consider that day lost when I do not get a letter from a teenage teen-age youngster offering to do my job or a contribution from a housewife saying she has been writing a column (in secret) for years and now has decided she wants to break into print. Doctors, lawyers, merchants, auto dealers and dogcatchers stumble stum-ble all over themselves trying to set me straight on how to run a publishing business. I can't get mad at this because I'm always doing that same sort mad and the true thinker.) i-roe-. From the Catsklll Mountain Ur, Saugcrtles, N. Y.: Mothers of G.I.'s missing in action in the air war over Korea have become prime targets of the Red propaganda propa-ganda machine. Pleasant letters, reassuring the safety of the missing men. ire being be-ing delivered to next-of-kin In smaller towns around the United States. Though written in precisa English, the letters are authored by the Chinese Reds. These solicitous letters offer to do anything possible for the captured cap-tured G. I. They also refer to the war as "senseless aggression," and offer effusive hopes for "peace." Since the Reds do not allow tho Red Cross or other legitimate agencies agen-cies to bear information thut might exist about downed U.N. fliers S this first word is naturally receive! j with overwhelming joy by tela- I of thing. The other night I spent most of an evening telling a baseball base-ball player how to Improve his pitching and I've made only one base hit in my life. Also, once I explained to an admiral ad-miral a cute little fleet maneuver I'd figured out. I explained that I, too, had served In the navy, during dur-ing World War I. He came back by telling me that he knew the printing business pretty well, having hav-ing carried papers when he was a youngster. See what I mean? From the Madison Press, London, )hfo: An editorial which is an edl . i. rial should make the die-hards tives. The parents show the letter ta friends. It appears in tve local paper (that's why smaller cities are selected). A letter-writing Campaign Cam-paign may start, to ini.ee the congressmen to "end this scns-less scns-less war." Thut. naturally, is exactly what the Reds want to happen. They know it is not hard to sell peace, but remember that peace on their terms is not peace at all. If you should receive such a letter, let-ter, don't let it be turned into a propaganda weapon which can undo un-do the value of the sacrifices your man has made. |