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Show Editorial Page THE RIGHT TO SPEAK Should government agencies have the power to tell legitimate legiti-mate businesses and other organizations what they may or may not say in their advertising adver-tising on pain of heavy tax penalties , To many people, who aren't yet aware of what has been going on, and believe that the government competition. It is important to companies like Timkin to convey the thinking of management to employees and the community." And something of far greater importance is at stake, the right of people to present their side of controversies to the public without censorship by taxation. right to speak one's mind without with-out hindrance is rock-ribbed right in this Country, ithat question will seem absurd on ita face. Yet government agencies, in effect, have been doing just that. The Internal Revenue Service has ruled that institutional advertising placed by utility companies in which they present pre-sent their side of tthe public vs private power controversy is not a deductable business expense. The Internal Revenue Service has further ruled that advertising adver-tising of the Timkin Roller Bearing- Company, which discussed dis-cussed such matters as capitalism capital-ism as opposed to socialism, is not a deductable business expense. And now the Renegotiation Board has ordered the Boeing Airplane Company to strike out some advertising expenditures expend-itures which have been added to defense contracts. It is Jikely that tho Internal Revenue Service will implement this. In an editorial urging a strong fight against such rulings, Editor & Publisher says: "We think that institutional institut-ional advertising is vitally necessary to some companies like Boeing that do not sell anything directly to the public. It is just as important to others like private utilities to protect themselves against |