| Show DICTATORS FEAR FREE PRES At the recent fiftieth convention of the members of or th American Newspaper Publishers Publisher association especial streets was as laid by various distinguished speakers speaker s on cn the need for tor maintaining Inviolate Inviolate ate the ancient American doctrine of fr freedom edom of the press Colonel Frank Knox publisher of the Chicago News said aid A free press and a dictator cannot live Inthe In Inthe inthe the SAme came country If a free tree press preas exists a dictator is unhorsed unhorsed and and the people retain their liberties If a free press Is destroyed a dictator dictator dic dic- and thrives the liberties of the people Sa a disappear u Sir Lewis Washington c correspondent of or the London Times said saki The newspapers rIe of ot today I Iare Iare are not free in all lands but where they still tm have hare liberty and defend defendI I against It It against eM enemies S without and j within within where where they s stand and n f for p discussion dis dle c n and 4 I setting I themselves unbreakably against the J I regimentation of customs and abed obed 1 i fence lence by step goose even the date dc may f lid 4 ft place l far hope hone ef speakers Spankers ket puse prese ted d similar views And It t is ta difficult to see how any man lift wI with ft a Knowledge of history f Clen and anc m nm p. p I could disagree The two greatest tre treasures sure any people can have area are I a free press and the he right t ef of free fr-ee speed t They hey ell Constitute the basis I I of or all liberties They are the Ute very pf t social 1 to and Id I po lq tt Whey tl a are the friends 9 gf f representative government govern govern- government government ment and the tho enemies of ot dictator dictator- ship I 11 H i r The newspapers of America have hare shown courage in aggressively re resisting reo re- J efforts forta tg 19 curb their l tr li u- u berties bertles In doing this they perform performa a duty to the people of ot the nation nation- and they show that they are worthy of the great re t tJ th that t fc la theirs in these discordant dan tunes times l |
