Show r 1 t nt t most ost every ery town of any conse- conse ce In the United States has s Its t paper or 01 newspapers according C sIze sire of the place In Sanpete fry ity ty we have four Tour weekly papers I It ta t- a liberal circulation dilation of dailies dallies t tei rs give great service to ct oPle In man many wa ways rs which are uc 1 Bussed sed b by F F. P P P. StockbrIdge In e earning acing paragraphs I livery ry thoughtful observer w who o America from abond i is amazed Discover scover how n the people 01 or ore ortt e tt United States know about w what at I maing Ing on not only In their own o. Jury try but all over oer the world The TIle lean Ican people know more 1 titan than I 1 V people eoPle IQ of England Germany o o or sIa know about what's going on an sir Ir own countries fi the reason for Americas America's wide Uie q ledge Ie of events and public rI ar- ar ris r- r 3 is that we are arc the greatest na ua o ol of sparer new readers renders to in UP 1 td anywhere More of us can read reade e Df or us are arc eager for Information ad sd we wo have ha vo more moie newspapers w r even evien among Americans I ea- ea that lat there are more than i pers published in the i. i About 2000 of them 11 fir l pa papers ers the rest weeklies t i jl 11 II That doesn't count enormous number of magazines Jl al' kinds of which we read more moredO moredo dO flo any other people No WOllI won won- I we e are so v well ell informed r EI nor OM o opinions he German Gennan or the Russian or the Ian an can read in his newspaper what his government wants JUn hin ead d. ad No in the s dares t to print anything Hi h criticIzes criticises the government I of them have hae to submit evento ever even everto it I to some government official beit heIt belt be he- It lt gets Into print nothing of the sort is possible in mea rica Government may not like la t a newspaper sa says s 's but it C can cant can't lIn to stop an editor from t n g un any uny news s or opinion ne tie ses ses to print So long as he tio tto s libel an anyone one advocate the over over- v w of the government by incite Cite people to riot or crime or j indecent language anyone woo access access to a printing pi pre press ess s can cant can't t j whatever er he w wants to print 0 he e Supreme Court of the United es has just ruled that this freet free flee lor t of the pi press ess guar guaranteed by I tae HC extends to two wife restrained 7 W IO may not be a distributing cIrculars handbills ill my other form form of prInted matter mallu I I STis is a restatement of what is vers pers per per- I 18 j s the right to express OUr oar ideas Ro to tell the truth as we see seu il lt out let or TI S. S truth who ho want to make mak ci selve s the rulers o of the the- people leI ler than their servants donti dont don't i newspapers be se a tiley arc aie likely likely to tell the truth about its it's s going on behind the political it E Every E ry attempt ever made in fn erica to or control the ss has originated in n politic l fires lues es oi or gangs s who were up to tota toto ta to sl skullduggery that they didn't u the voters to know about rip Ip to about bout years ago go every i if r new newspaper aper was owned or controlled I L by politicians with an axe c to grind The Tho first newspaper to set itself free fice I from such control was as the tile Times Its founder John Walter Vatter d that if he could get t enough h small advertisers so that it wouldn't I ruin him If a few dropped ed ed out lie Ile could run an honest newspaper r an and pi print nil tile the truth about public affairs That at was the beginning of or the thereal thereal real freedom of or the press There are arc still a few news newspapers tied lied uP vl wr h political backers but nine nine- tenths of American papers are tree fice The freest froest of or all are the one oue that thai have haye the most float advertising I CONTROL When Hue Long was mal making in Himself Kingfish of Louisana ie i got ot his picked hand-picked legislature to I pars pats laws Jaws of many kinds kind Intended cd to cripple the ne newspapers Some of or those laws were upset by the Su- Su Court but one which till still stands on Louisiana's statute books s sIs is held responsible for the tho org orgy of or financial crookedness In the state since Longs Long's death This law abolishes the publication tion or of so called legal advertising advertis advertis- I ing mg Most stat states s require all proposals pro plO po aIs involving in the use use or public funds tax lists bond Issues Issues' and the like to be advertised in newspapers newspaper in every county Those things arc are the publics public's b business siness The Long nb scheme kept the public completely complete in the dark daik as to how bow much money the no politicians were collecting from the people and how they were spending spend spona- ing it Procession of or political grafters graft graft- ers that has recently started for Cor the Louisiana Penitentiary Is evidence e that the people have waked up to the fact that they were being rf rO- rO u- u bed and how But Dut until the state resumes the publication of official reports of Its financial l matters theres there's always a chance of or something something something some some- thing l being ein pu 1 over r J I I I i 1 him t hinis Every once tines In a a while h r somebody comes out with a n. pook Jook or 01 a magazine maga muga- zine article trying Ing to tell teU people that erti ad advertising Is an economic waste that it if It wasn't for the cost of advertising advertising ad- ad vei Using they could buy things cheaper The precIse opposite happens hap hap- Dens pens to be true as r e publisher publish r fand fand f j jand and eVery advertiser ad knows If t wasn't for foi advertising no concern could do a large enough volume or of business to sell his bis product at al reasonable iea- iea I 4 Some of these same wrongheaded wrongheaded wrong wrong- I hea headed ed critics contend that news news- news 1 pipers s s are aie under the he domination n i advertisers Ive I've run nM nv s 's papers und have studied the inn workings of oC tho the business for years Ive I've never encountered ui au instance of a newspaper adapting its editorial policy to the whims of advertisers advertisers- One newspaper I 1 worked on hl lu l la t a i largo advertiser who disliked t tau u papers paper's attitude 0 on a certain m matter matterand matterand tt and pulled out his daily dally ful page papu advertisement A year later Intel ho he offered advertising copy again and i ta the publisher refused to let him the paper r Cosmic Hays l Super X frays Co Cosmic mic rays lays are super X rays in their penetrating V po powers rs I |