Show KEEP AMERICAN ATME RICA N IDEALS or OP LIBERTY ALIVE recent press stories record a german sales girl being sent to a nazi prison for nine months because she remarked to a friend that she knew of abuses in a concentration cent ration camp a peddler sentenced to eight months in jail because he saw storm troopers kill several jews in leipzig an elderly W woman a man being given six months for saying that relief given was scanty in view ot of fund available a woman jailed for fifteen months for writing a letter opened by a censor to a sister in now new york telling about conditions under nazi government a situation in russia where the helpless masses now bow to a communistic despotism more relentless than that of the czar that fascism has given italy material benefits though individual liberty has been killed that the gel germans mans from a liberty lov ing people devoted to family life are bowing with apparent willingness to a deSPOU despotism SM more absolute and cruel than any other the modern world has seen the situation is beyond understanding particularly as all these political upheavals ls and r revolutions were to benefit the masses but the net result in each case seems seem sto to have been to reduce the individual to a cipher under the domination of ironhanded iron handed that lays out the course of every man woman and child it is possible that american citizens in another ten years will have accepted a program which makes thib the citizen e exist alst as a tax machine for litcof government or will we get mackto back inq to the fundamental dod doctrine IrIne of our country that government exists for jhb individual and that our public publia officials Is are servants and administrative officers of the people rather than their overlords and masters will the day come when an american editor fears to criticize government and will the day come when our government can censor the opinions that editors express to their re readers aderEr as seems to be the case in such countries as germany russia and ital italy it is high time the american p people eople bore these dan dangers gersin in mind |