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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. AMERICA AS A MODEL FOR POST-WAR WORLD ! TO THE POST-WAR WORLD will come many changes. Ideological forces will provide, if possible, those conditions out of which another world holocaust cannot be produced, , but out of which will come a betterment better-ment of conditions of the people. It would seem to most of us Americans Amer-icans that no better foundation on which to build a new world could be found that the government and system upon which has been erected erect-ed the greatest, most prosperous and freest nation in the world. Within With-in but little more than 150 years since establishing our independence, we have expanded from a narrow strip along the Atlantic to a nation that covers the width of the continent conti-nent Under the system provided, by the American Constitution, we, as a people, have conquered a wilderness, wil-derness, have built great cities, provided pro-vided millions of comfortable homes. We have built more miles of highways high-ways and railroads than are to1 be found in all of Europe. For, each one thousand persons, we own more than six times as many automobiles auto-mobiles as the same number of Europeans own. In radios, telephones, tele-phones, washing machines, in everything every-thing which adds to the comfort and pleasure of living, America stands pre-eminent throughout the world. We, as individuals, have greater opportunity op-portunity to achieve. Among us; there is a much more equitable distribution dis-tribution of wealth than in any other, land. Our workers receive a much greater share of what is produced than do those of any nation of Europe. Yes, America has prospered under un-der our American system and form of government. Let us hope it may serve as a model for the re-, building of a war-torn world, rather1 than that we adopt any one of the "isms" of Europe, which have noth-' tag to offer us as compensation' for what we have. A REAL HERO I THE FIGHTING MARINE ! "JOHN IS IN defense work," said the fond mother, with a tone of pride in her voice. The "John" in that case is a young man, less than 20 years old. He is working 40 hours a week in an airplane air-plane plant, for which he is paid better than $60 each week. I do not see anything especially heroic about "John in defense work" under such conditions. Another "John" I know is a United Unit-ed States marine, fighting Japs 168 hours each week in the South Pacific and receiving less each month than the "John in defense work" receives each week. To me the marine "John" is a hero. GLORY OP CRIPPLE CREEK WILL LIVE IN U. S. HISTORY AN ACQUAINTANCE of many years, E. V. Jones, who died some two years ago, was editor of the first newspaper published at Cripple Creek, Colo. It was a real pleasure to listen to his tales of experiences in that wild, and then practically lawless, place. The early Cripple Creek was a model for other western west-ern mining towns, but no other ever equaled it. Running a newspaper in such a town in its early days was a hazardous occupation. Now Cripple Creek is to become but another an-other of the numerous western ghost towns. A government edict has closed its mines, as gold is not a war necessity. The glory of the Cripple Creek of old will live long in the annals of the West. FREEDOM OF PRESS VITAL IN DEMOCRACY IN CALIFORNIA recently, Grove Patterson, editor of the Toledo (Ohio) Blade, delivered a remarkable remark-able address on "Freedom of the Press." Justus Craemer, former president presi-dent of the National Editorial association, as-sociation, in a letter complimenting Mr. Patterson on that address, put into a concise statement just what a free press means to America. He said: "Advertising, in a profitable sense, cannot exist in a totalitarian state and free enterprise cannot exist without advertising. All our freedom, free-dom, our enterprise, our civil and religious liberties, stand or fall together. to-gether. The newspaper is particularly the medium of expression for any minority not in power, because the newspaper is not under the control of a bureaucratic government and a newspaper has the privilege of taking sides in a political controversy. contro-versy. JAZZ ORCHESTRAS Recently I listened for an hour to an orchestra playing jazz music. All of the players looked healthy and physically capable of doing a" real man's job. In age they probably prob-ably ranged from 20 to 35. I wondered won-dered if using such manpower on a saxophone and fiddle was more Important than gathering corn or firing a rifle. I will not believe we are short of manpower for the armed forces, the farms or tBie factories fac-tories so long as jazz orchestras continue to operate. J I ! |
