Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1936 — Page 16
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ou can’t fool us! We're the World's
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An American reporter interviewed a typical family in a dictator ridden European country, from which liberty had been, banished. Hands gnarled from bitter toil, cheeks sallow from privation, dad i in_tatters. . . this 5 family looked at our reporter with genuine pit). 3 You are an "American? How sad!” they said, “We know that hundreds of your people are being shot monthly by capitalist controlled police. We know that thousands of your workers are dying from hunger. We know that no one in your country bas the comfort or the security we have. We know that, ) in all the world, we are the most fortunate of people We
know all these things because we read them in our newspapers, which speak the iriuth because our government publishes them!”
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ANTASTIC?...Not at all! That family can be found in several countrits today, where leaders— lustful for power, have learned the force that lies in ability to contro] or to fabricate what passes as news.
in the dark concerning its shortcomings and maladjustments. Here, in this country, the people may learn the facts. Knowing them, and once aroused, there is no illness— political, social or economic—our people cannot ultimately cure by the orderly and wise action of their own system of government.
: : : 1g) Dictatorship thrives on studied misrepresentation. It can’t exist where the average citizen
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