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Show farces in it rending over our shoulders, quietly welcoming all uninformed, unque.-tioning mentalities. men-talities. Why? All the "i-nis" that discount and take over the individual thrive best when iio people have lost communication with, and even des-re for. the vhole story i.e., when they've nst the knack of weigh inn Hie acts and thinking for them-iclves. them-iclves. Yes, we In America are free to read whatever newspapers . ... i- ...,..-.. r rwnner we choose or to read no news-(tapew. news-(tapew. aii- But tlie next time we it roll past a newsstand, we might re-member re-member this. To keep our liee- .y flom of the press, along with 'ts sister-freedoms, we Americans mav have to discipline ourselves to make the most of it. For largely by skilled and ..on scientious use of newspapeis. can we arm ourselves with .ne truth about the world in wnicn we live. And it is the truth, plus the unquenchable desire of free men for the truth, wiikIi will fortify the human race against tyranny and enslavement. Free Press Nssds VigalGRce of the Mews lleesder (Editor's Note: The following article, reprinted from the New York Herald Tribune as part ol the celebration, of Newspaper Week, Oct. 1 to 8, has particular significance to all Americans in these troublous times. Article 1 of the Bill of Kignts states that "Congress shall make on law . . . abridging freedom of speech or of the press." This is the written guarantee of freedom of the prin'- 1 v I in the United States. Freedom of the press, a privilege priv-ilege of democracy, also exacts a responsibility from us, the citizens who enjoy it. We must, as part of our birthright, think for ourselves about the import ant questions of our time. Because Be-cause we aren't handed our opinions, op-inions, cellophane-sealed, from a political Can't-Be-Wrong on high, we have to shape our decisions de-cisions in our own minds, i.he hard way. And we are further committed to base our judgments, judg-ments, not on emotional bias or lazily parroted generalizations, but on the evidence of the complete com-plete facts. A Common Carrier Radio, television and the mag- azines help in some measure to provide this type of evidence. But towering above these media as a common carrier of public information is the press, the tremendous, tre-mendous, influential, dynamic force of the almost 2000 daily and 10,000 weekly newspapers published in the United States today. Newspaper readers, obviously, vary. Some take their papeis lightly, as they would a movie, "a detective story, a game. Skilled Skill-ed and conscientious readers, on the other hand, read, learn from and evaluate their newspapers to get the most out of them. True, it's very much our wri business which' newspapers we read and how we read them. But we cannot overlook the need or good newspapers, and above all, for intelligent reading of good newspapers. Our Business For, like it or not, the world we live in is inescapably our business, too. And today, as through all history, there are |