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Show r 4 UINTAH BASIN RECORD. MARCH 10, 1930 The Uintah Basin Record Noted Editor Explains Importance Of Press Freedom However, period. that there were A call for protection of the earlier a indicated free, flow of information PUBLISHED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Duchesne, Utah IRENE FRET WELL - C. L. FRET WELL Publishers C. L. FRETWELL, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 Year $3.00 $2.00 - 6 Months $1.50 3 Months Payable In Advance EDITORIAL OF THE WEEK The Fellow Who Needs Parity sity. Dictators, always have formation as to power. He in- a step on the road collect-as-you-g- o wrung 'Djwmijju im-pro- ve century newspaper, using the best 20th century mechanical techniques. Mr. Canham said the greatest need in newspapers today is for hard and penetrating and meaningful reporting of the facts. But, he said, the entertainment content of some newspapers has nearly driven the news out. The human mind being what it is, people are more interested in little girls who fall down wells and even in movie queens who marry Moslem princes than they are in the failure of a wheat crop in Italy. And yet such a hypothetical failure of a wheat crop might break the. line of defense against. Communism and affect vitally the lives of everybody in thq United States, including whether or not they eat. It is the job of newspapers not merely to cater to obvious human interest but also to make significant things clear. Only as Americans are. well informed can this nation live up to its responsibilities in a hazardous world. Only thus can we snap out of the inferiority complex which has made us think we are defending reaction and the other fellow is proclaiming revolution. As a matter of fact, we have the revolution and he has the reaction. Communism and the. police state a,re not new; they represent the blackest rethe- enslaveaction in history ment of individual man. We in the western world are the heirs of revolution. We have brought together in our society the golden threads of mans forward progress down through the centuries. The Judiac traditions of law and monotheism, the Grecian ideal of government, the Christian concept of love and brotherhood these are all united in our society into an operative and dynamic doc- Prize Rose was chosen one of the iveMost Beautiful Wall papers of the Year by leading decorators. Oilier 1 award-winnin- g patterns, plus hundreds of new, lashion-approvci ijv mod- - crately priced papers by bnited are ready tor you m in our store now. 7T i. .iM' Look In sample books for this teal on the back of every United Wallpaper pottern A Wited Wallpaper INC. TurnerBuilding "A Phone Supply Good Place To 203-- Buy" Roosevelt and it truly awaken r once is accurate interpreted us We er da ,JrilI; win free a force far mo than the hydrogen I it is the force Jr humanity. We must find our make freedom the which will m world. to get easy si We set men free. We revolutionize the relationship of man to his material environment. We lift the curtains of ignorance and superstition and fear. It is time, for us to awaken to our revolutionary heritage and make it into an export doctrine far more potent and dy- - Complete Optical Service AUTOMOTM EYES EXAMINED Daynes Optical Roosevelt, Utah Make Appointments at SATHER JEWELRY A Product Standard of ol Califi un Yes, even when temperature drops e2 down, you get starts and running with Standi Officials of the National Park Service report that forest xmd grass fires in' national parks, national monuments, and other areas of the national park system totalled 336 for the first 8 months of 1949. Of this total, the officials report. 124 were lightening caused fires. Careless smokers were responsible for 93 fires; 32 were d u e to careless campers; 34 resulted from debris burning operations; 17 were incendiary; 19 were due to railroads; and 17 were due to miscellaneous Automotive D2eS Fuel. For this p quality fuel hast cetane value . . freely in all west . . reduces clog and wear. That m greater economy!1 Standard Autoifl0 causes. Acreage Diesel Fuel burned totalled approximately 29,600 acres of which 20,000 acres was grass. The greatest works are done by the ones. The hudreds do not often, do much the companies never; it is the units the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Spurgeon When trine., - why lightenment and Theln - : Park Service Lists Fire Causes efmedthonbe SDi said Mr. Canham, destroyed free he ex- ceptions in some places where sense, ours is a it had been possible to retain age. It is spiritual the luxury of a typical 19th ated into terms of f vital key to a free society was recently made at Northwestern University. Dangers of attack upon media of information from both within and without a free society were exposed by Erwin D. Can-haeditor of The Christian Science Monitor in an address, The Right of the People to Know, given before a journalism convocation at the Univer- urged the media of to withthemselves information Now that the Congress is as will be recalled. The tax bill and the awaken stand public to turning thought to taxes and w a s, as we remember, built such peril. what to do about them, it seems around his suggestions. The dangers of suppression to us pertinent to call attention The tax measure started with from without generally come to one consideration which we the proposition that $12 weekly from governments, big and litbelieve to have l'ar too long been brushed aside. That is the was sufficient to meet the costs tle, which .seek to control or basis upon which the present of ordinary living of an ordin- sway the free flow of informa; from personal income tax schedule ary individual. That is, one tion, he said. alsoDangers come without from may has been erected. Back in the period immediate- could get along on $12 weekly. powerful special interests, fily preceding the war, when the Maybe that was true at the time. nancial or otherwise, which seek Federal government inaugurated However, times have changed. to control free information. Mr. Canham lodged large reits present sys- Yet the basic, allowance living sponsibility for avoiding such tem, Henry Morganthau, Jr., remains threats with the people includunchanged. was Secretary of the Treasury, The wage earner is presumed ing judges and law officers to be able to keep alive as a many of whom, he said, need A' to the vital decent member of Society on to beof awakened information. role an outmoded standard which Mr. Canham recognized the was mostly a product of guesswork the by varing to begin with. The indivi- ious mediaaccomplished of in information dual is still taxed on every cent to external the public over and above the weekly $12 alerting WALLPAPER PUTS base. In the case of a single dangers, even though he felt some had misused their posiperson the take runs high. tion or stretched a case too far. We may be wholly wrong, As an example, he mentioned l but it seems logical to assume the efforts of government to that if adjustment were made working conditions of of that base exemption to reINY0UR HOME newsboys, which were resisted store it more nearly to parity by publishers raising the cry of a long step might prove to have a free press. been taken toward stabilization. This may seem silly and selfIt would obviously involve a Mr. Canham, but it said ish, reduction in Federal income tax has a root which cannot be deep revenues. On the other hand, awarethe ignored part of that at least might well ness of many instinctive custodians of the enough be recovered in the adto know that govpeoples right ditional business volume which ernment of the flow of control would result from such ideas often begins in a very remote and subtle channel. It also seems a trifle unfair The chief dangers to the flow to the fellow who works for of information in a free society, wages to be left out in the cold said the speaker, attack inforentirely so far as parity is mation media from within. concerned. It might mean, of This comes, he said, whencourse, a curtailment of con- - ever and wherever the media siderable spending in Washing- of information themselves are ton. It might also prove embar- not adequately and objectively rassing to some of the give- fulfilling their complete responaway boys. On the other hand, sibility to all the community. it would seem to embrace the He contrasted the responsibilprincipals of justice. ity of newspapers of the 19th We contend that anyone who century, many of which appealpersists in the belief that $12 ed to single unified groups, with is a fair living base for tax the consolidated press of today. a condition purposes is too imaginative to .In the old days make sound calculations. It which exists in places such as most newspapers takes an awful lot of imagina- Paris today tion to stretch $12 weekly to bad violent political views. even a get by basis of ex- They expressed them with great istence. We dont know much influence in news columns, in economics, but we do their headlines and elsewhere. about know that. V .... i? Today, he said, most newspapers are responsible to the ' Cleveland, T e n n. Banner , entire community. Their news 4 columns, at least, must reflect the objectivity which did not U. S. exist and was not particularly See the colors in this wanted by the readers in an lovely paper understand I ,YS today I. SAIIDEI Roosevelh 86 NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORPORATION, NEW YORK 65 GRAIN Phone proof; NEUTRAL SPIRITS UD& 140-- cn sal st s |