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Show ? i is imperialism. And a conservative, from point of' view, is those persons or groups, want intervention w'ho all right, but only when it will result in profit for some Amen- Carruthers, We want your Certainly! news items. The phone number is 7. IciuS-ourna- BOX ELDER d Brigham City, Utah Friday, July 19, 1946 EXPERT RADIO BETWEEN THE LINES By A. L. Beck REPAIRING duct of an individual sellin a as! point of view, and as far I've been able to discover is not ' being printed by any union. the Public Record Try monthly publication of United Public Workers of America, if you want to see what a typical union paper is like. And one thing, when you read it you know that you are reading the "point of view of this union can firm. That is why, to me, Mr. TIlearst was indulging in conservative journalism when he incited the people to war in 18!)8 and when lie he refuses to say a word about our interven lion in Java in 1945 In both .and that it doesnt represent it-eases he spoke for those interelf as unbiased or unprejudic-ests whose watchword was prof- ed. it. Freedom was the victim, not the goal, of Mr. Ilearsts news- OTHER EDITORS SAY papers. As I see it, Mr. Hearst should stop printing a newspa- Hal G MacKnighl in The Price per and turn out a propaganda Says "Kill the Sales Tax." sheet such as In Fact clearly Elimination of the sales tax stating his point of view, so the public wouldn't think they were foods, medicine and other reading facts when they read necessities will be recommend-- j A newspaper ed to the next, legislature by his periodicals. owner should have a sense of Governor Herbert B. Maw, ac-- ' moral responsibility toward his readers, for most of them take it for granted that a newspaper prints the truth and not propaganda. If a newspaper owner has no responsibiliy to print facts and truths, then Mr. Long and Mr. Carruthers should concede that freedom of the Press is like cheese and crackers, to be sold on the market to the man with the money to buy it. Mr. Carruthers states that the unions take a billion a year in dues from the workers of America, and with so much money should be able to liold their own in the newspaper business. I wish to remind Mr. 1 It seems this column ran into competition, and able competition at that, in withholding the thesis that the American press In a What They is not free. Think" article last week, Mr. A. Carruthers boiled the argument Does clown to one basic point. a newspaper man, because he owns a newspaper, have the right to screen and control all items of news that pass through his paper, with the aim of el- Prompt Service COOI) ASSORTMENT RADIO... TUBES SPEAKERS AERIALS and other supplies BEEHIVE COAL AND APPLIANCE G8 North Main - Phone 1 M information. Its a point upon which Carruthers and Mr. Long K Ooooh or slants cither iminating facts inconsistent with his own biases and prejudices? This is a fundamental and important point and must serve as the basis of distinction between free or unfrfc sources of N & M$f I ft , JustWhal! Need! I trjr Platform Rocker The .spot in your house the whole family will enjoy is the place occupied by a We have just receiv-e- d platform a nice assortment of well built rockers that will match the present furniture in your living room. Come in and let us show them to you. roc-kcr- . Floor Wax Pictures Armstrong Linogloss Wax, made by the makers of fine linoleums for your linoleum. We have a nice selection of Florals and Water pictures that will add color to your home. 1 will doubtless disagree with me. is their To decide That right. this question, one between distinguish should propaganda and news. Mr. Long, in criticizing the views of this column, referred to a number of periodicals which this writer peruses, and from which much of the philosophy of this colBut take In umn derives. Fact, printed by George and ask yourself. Is this a newspaper, purporting to give the people news, or is it the marked intention of Mr, Seldes to give his readers a point of view? Both Mr. Long and Mr. will concede, Im Carruthers, sure, that Mr. Seldes is expressing a point of view in "In Fact and his readers know it is Mr. Seldes own opinion they are reading. The same is true of most of the other periodicals referred to by Mr. Long, excepting, of coprse, PM, and I agree w.ui Mr. Long in his criticism of PM. This column has not prettended to present an unbiased account of current events, no more than does Pegler, So-- . koisky, Pearson or a host of A point of other columnists. view is what they strive for, and their readers are, or can 'easily become, aware of any col-- i umnists point of view. However, the big daily news-- I papers that stretch across Amer- ica are not agents of a point of view. They are dispensers of news, and Mr. Long or Mr. Carruthers would have a hard time to find a newspaperman who would frankly say his paper did not try to give the people unbiased news. If one is writing a column, writing a labor paper for members of his union, or a paper such as In Fact, then the public knows they are getting the writer's own opinion, not news. On the other hand, newspapers do pretend to give the people news, not the owners or writers point of view. The power to control thought is the power to rule and therefore the big daily newspapers do have a moral remore sponsibility, important than their property rights, not to use their papers as instruments of propaganda striving to make the American people subservient to the point of view of newspaper owners and their advertisers. Mr. Carruthers accuses the columnist of inconsistency in berating Mr. Hearst for inejt-t- o in 1898, and berating newspapers for not inciting the people to demand intervention when the Fascist armies of Japan, Italy and Germany were preparing their world conquests. From my point of view that is 1!:? fnanish-America- n not inconsistency. Sel-des- War hfd m., j Carruthers that there are probtwo hundred ably wealthy American families who make, per famly, nearly as much as all the union dues collected annually in this country combined. The unions have vast administrative organizations to sustain from their billion a year income and can spend only a small portion of this for pub- licity. Also, Mr. Long can tell you that a newspapers major source of income is from its advertising and advertisers are not going to bend over backwards filling a labor paper with ads. . When lit is all said and done it is still my opinon that the rich and the wealthy control our major sourcs of information and are using these sources to preserve the status quo. Labor has only one answer, that is to organize the workers and send their membership labor papers presenting their point of view. That is the thing the conserva- tives fear and howl about most, but their own narrowness is leadding to that end. And before closing I wish to remind Mr. Carruthers that the Utah Labor News is the pro A Mirrors Talkie ay We offer you a nice selection of mirrors and c shelves. Come Talkie made by Dictograph. Just a flip of a switch and you can talk. 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The sales tax law has support- ed a lot of politicians in soft jobs; it has taken great sums of money from average workers as they bought the necessities of life; it has provided first-clas- s headaches for business people who have been forced into jobs as tax collectors. Once a source of revenue is established by a branch of gov-o- n ernment it is seldom killed the insstigators and executives who have fallen into nice berths entrench and perpetuate them- - selves. The state legislature should enkill the sales tax law in its should else tirety, but if nothing s follow the governors sugges-Lionon foods, it eliminate and medicine and other necessities at least. It will be interesting to watch the progress of the state heads recommendation in the legislature. SPECIAL! CRINKLE CREPE ele- ments of imperialism mi was, in many senses, si.'.i.'r to the Japanese invasion of In my opinion this nation should forever be upholding the throughout democracy world. 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