Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1936 — Page 8

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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, checks sallow from privation, dad in tatters. . . this family looked at our reporter with genuine pity. “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 has the comfort or the security we have. We know that, in all the world, we are the most fortunase of people. We know all these things because we read them in our newspapers, which speak the truth becanse our government publishes them!”

\ ANTASTIC?...Notatall! That in the dark concerning its short family can be found in sev- comings and maladjustments. eral countries today, where lead- Here, in this country, the peoers—lustful for ple 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.

is given an accurate pictur Today, with democracy under local and world affairs. fire, the Scripps-Howard News-

Herein lie the strength papers pledge themselves anew:

the hope of America. This co First, to give theirreadersclear, try is no Utopia; it makes many impartial, accurate news on both. mistakes and" tolerates many sides of every vital question. temporary injustices. But, thanks And second, in their editorial to an unshackled press and the \ pages, to outline with tolerance right of every man to speak his ' and logic their concept of the mind...this nation isnever long nation’s wisest course.

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