Show YOUR OPINION It Counts Counts- In America In this country your opinion counts Were We're not not ruled from the top down were down were we're ruled from the bottom up Our political designees at the top owe their power as a sacred trust to the will of the majority of the people The people never permit them to to lose sight of that that that-that that is democracy But democracy for successful permanent operation J ca calls for an informed intelligent common sense people capable of judging the truth and competent to discern incompetency in public office when it appears For more than a a. a century and a half the principles of democracy upon which all government in this country local state and national are founded have succeeded in operating to the advantage of the people and the coun country ry as a whole in the creation of a standard of living and an order of free society unsurpassed in the history of mankind The success of of this democracy is due to the extreme and uncanny foresight of the true and unselfish patriots who wh conceived the system of balance in power between tive legislative and judicial and the extraordinary wisdom of the people acting through their chosen representatives and nd the numerous numerous side-aids side and safeguards set up and evolved evolved evolved evol evol- ved with the passage of All these side-aids side and safeguards cannot be pointed out here But mention can be made briefly of two 1 Education Education Education Edu Edu- cation of the people and 2 Freedom of the press The part played by a little red schoolhouse and its itH counterpart coun coun- in modern America our high schools colleges business bus busi ness schools trade schools and numerous other educational forums is one of the rocks upon which this democracy is ir built And Freedom of the Press alon along with its partner co-partner Freedom of Speech carries a mighty load in that enduring foundation too A people with the foresight to provide adequate universal urn uni versal ersul popularly supervised education and then the right rith for inH n n S' S IVI UI U l. l j UL UI La emerge L 1 4 rom suen suena a menta mentally trained and equipped elector electorate te has provided its citizens with a system of living which if adequately protected pro pro- assures ultimately a maximum of happiness and individual in in- satisfaction for all aU During the i political campaigns of this presidential election year in America men will dare to get up UI and sa say just what they think of any and every candidate for public l' l office und and the people will judge the opinions of those speakers speak speak- ers by that strange coordination n of public sense which permits permits permits per per- mits them to see through any attempted lies inaccuracies shams and personal a abuses uses that are unfair and do not ring true rue rue For this is America and here your opinion counts And Andin in forming your our opinions opinions one one of your first sources whether you agree politically or in any way should be the tho editorial pages of newspapers There through the constitutional right of Freedom of the Press in America you can on at nt least conscientious guidance And remember er YOUR OUR OPINION OPINION-it it counts in America This is National Newspaper Week during during during dur dur- ing which the newspapers throughout tho the country are pointing out that Freedom of the tho Press continues as from the beginning one of the First Lines of American Defense |