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Show NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK IS YOUIt WEEK TOO oeakers. but of all the people-it people-it is their own guarantee of free and unafraid expression of theur convictions. "Freedom of Religion" is not the property of minister, priest or rabbi but of all the people it is their guarantee of freedom of conscience and of divine worship in accord with that conscience. National Newspnper Week is designed de-signed to focus attention on these freedoms. A free press is the partner part-ner of the people in the effort to preserve these rights. Newspapers promote National Newspaper Week, not from a selfish motive, but to emphasize these basic and vital freedoms, the partnership of press and people and the need for everyone exhibiting dedication and diligence in the eternal effort to preserve these freedoms. National Newspaper Week this year is October 15-21. Two days are set aside for particular par-ticular emphasis: Newspaperboy Day wh'ch inaugurates the week on Saturday, Oct. I 5, and Journalism Education Day, Monday, Oct. 1 7, sponsored for the first time this year. Nat onal Newspaper Week is 2 1 years old in the United States this year. But individual freedom in the United States is 169 years old this year. National Newspaper Week was initiated and is sponsored annually by Newspaper Association Managers, Manag-ers, Inc., an organization of execu tive heads of national, regional and state newspaper publishers and press associations. Our three great freedoms set forth in the B 11 of Rights are "Freedom "Free-dom of the Press", "Freedom of Speech" and "Freedom of Religion". Relig-ion". The free press of Colonial America paved the way for these basic freedoms which became fact with the coming into force of the Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791 These freedoms belong to the peoplo. "Freedom of the Press is not the property of newspapers, but of all the people it is their guarantee guaran-tee of the right to know; their insurance in-surance against demogogy. "Freedom of Speech" is not the property of politicians and platform It is of utmost importance we present a solid front for freedom in a world which freedom is being attached so violently and so unscrupulously. un-scrupulously. Truth makes us free. Let us now resolve to continue the d ssemination of truth as the. indestructible in-destructible bulwark against ignorance, ignor-ance, enslavement, bigotry and political chicanery. Newspapers are, indeed, the guardians of freedom. by Louio Spilman, pres. and editor, Waynesboro (Va.) News-Virginian. |
