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Show we must know the truth and If we know we are hearing the whole truth we can take it because we can believe what we are told not fear something worse. Only the truth can make men , free from fear. THE TRUTH SETS FREE By RUTH TAYLOR As the fortunes of war wax and wane all over the globe, there is one battlefront that is under constant fire. Our minds are always in the front line of attack. The poison gas of conflicting, con-flicting, disruptive rumors are daily let loose over our heads. Enemy sappers are constantly attempting at-tempting to tunnel through from all directions to undermine our courage and staying power. Our morale is under an enfilade from all angles. Of course when we stop to analyze an-alyze what we hear we can usually us-ually recognize divisive propaganda. propa-ganda. We are mature, thinking people. We know from whence stem the stories that tend to make us distrust our leaders and criticize criti-cize the policies of our government. govern-ment. That tend to make us look upon our fellow citizens as greedy, avaricous men, intent only on their own profit (be they workers, farmers, or industrialists. That tend' to make us assume our neighbors have alien sympathies or ulterior motives depending upon up-on how pronounced their participation partici-pation in the war effort seems to be. We can recognize the things -as enemy propaganda when we stop to think. Unfortunately there are occasions (and they will be more frequent as the war continues) contin-ues) when we are so tired and disturbed by the press of things, that we won't take time to analyze an-alyze what we hear when we will listen with our ears and not with our minds, and when the constant repetition of divisive charges, of slurring remarks, of accusations,! of half-truths will find us believing believ-ing in spite of ourselves. If that happens to enough of us at the same time it will mean a dangerous danger-ous break in ' the line of public morale. There is one sure way in which we can successfully fight this danger dan-ger that is by administering the truth consistently . and constantly. We must go directly to the point. We must face each charge as it Is made and learn what are the facts. This is the only way in which we can quench fear because be-cause we will be discarding half lies in favor of the truth. We must guard our speech. Let every thought of divisiveness end with us. Let us have no defeatism even in talk at home. We must be our own "Rumor Clinic," searching search-ing out the "why" of every statement. state-ment. We as a nation cannot govern ourselves by deceits and frauds- |