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Show 1 SEPTEMBER 16, 1950 VOL. XXIII NO. -- 17 News and Featuros oi Interest to Residents oi Davis County. LAYTON, DAVIS COUNTY. UTAH During the month oi September communities in Davis county will join with the the rest of the nation in a new crusade Crusade for Freedom. A movement calculated to demonstrate the complete unity- of the free peoples of the world in their condemnation of and to the forces of slavery, the Crusade for Freedom is also an all-oassault in the battle now raging for the possession of men's minds. It is the turning of the weapon of truth upon the propaganda mills of the communists. People in the county wilFBe asked to affix their signature to the Freedom Scroll, thereby making themselves one with the millions of others pledged to the cause of liberty in all corners of the globe. They will also be invited to back up their signature with voluntary donations. Collection boxes will be set up and Freedom Scrolls made available in various convenient places during the Crusade for Freedom here. Funds contributed will go to Radio Free Europe, the American broadcasting station in Western Germany, that daily sends its beam of truth through the iron curtain. Your signature on the Freedom Scroll will be permanently enshrined in the base of the Freedom Bell in Berlin. This ten-to- n bell, symbol of the Crusade for Freedom, will be dedicated in Berlin on October 24, United Nations day. On that day the bell will ring for the hrst time, carrying its message of Freedom, by radio, to thb four comers of the earth and simultaneously bells will ring out all over America and Western Europe, in a gigantic testimony of the unity of Free peoples everywhere. Radio Free Europe is a supplement station to the State Department's Voice of d outlet America. It is a e that beams its programs right up to the back door of the Kremlin. Since July 4, this station has been sending native-tongu- e broadcasts into iron curtain countries, telling the true story of America's aims and intentions, and putting the brand of falsehood upon the accusations of the Hi citizen-supporte- people-to-peopl- - op-positi- pn ut lie-produci- ng , . Kremlin. " ' - Besides carrying the truth behind "the iron curtain, Radio Free Europe is countering communist propaganda in the free areas, lie contends against where the sugar-coate- d truth for areas of influence and support. . In the long run, the propaganda battle now being waged for the possession of men's minds is more crucial than the battle of arms being conducted for the possession of territory. Territory may be conquered and held, but ideas and beliefs cannot be changed by force of arms, and it is the prevalent idea that will determine the ultimate course of world society. Most of us are limited in the extent of direct action we can take in support of Democratic principals on an international scale. The Crusade for Freedom offers the opportunity for everyone to actively subscribe to a movement which, in its total effect, comprises a dynamic, and perhaps decisive offensive behind the standards of these principals. It should not be passed by with indifference. ft |