Show eo THE OF 45 this is NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK set apart each year by americas free democratic journalism as a period of self elaml nation and rededication dedication re if you ask SO WHAT well for one thing its YOUR week quite as much as the newspapers its dedicated in 1952 to YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW one of its chief purposes Is to inspire better journalism so that YOU may be better served by your newspaper another Is io to remind every american ot of the importance of guarding the freedom of information guaranteed to our people by at ai tide I 1 of the bill of rights the individual reader and his newspaper have an inseparable common interest in that constitutional tut ional guarantee our people must be tree free to remain free they must be in formed 11 1 to be adequately informed they must ha have hae e unshackled kled sources of information I 1 and so NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK Is a period be belonging equally to YOU and YOUR NEWSPAPER individual FREEDOM would perish it if freedom of the press should die and choit of the worst in just that degree in which sources of useful information are ar e willfully by selfish or spiteful interests just so is individual liberty imperiled freedom of information is being assailed throughout the world witness the almost complete blackout in russia and its satellites tr I 1 witness the suppression and confiscation of 0 la prensa in ar gerti gent inac witness the executive order or of the president of 0 the united states about a year ago authorizing civilian agencies of the government as distinguished from the military to decide acid e whytt ia t t the he public SH wilh SHOULD a and nd what a t i it t SHOULD NOT know about the PUBLIC BUSINESS under tinder their direction yet our people generally seem ne never ver to pay more than casual attention to the ever recurring acts and threats against freedom of information they apparently have no consciousness ness of the slow strangulation of public information that selfish and vindictive interests seem determined to bring about |