Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 50, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 November 1939 — Factual Report of War Activities [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Factual Report of War Activities

THE war in Europe is the one subject of interest to all our readers, but the moves on the checkerboards of the battlefields and diplomacy are not easily understood. America is being flooded from every war-torn nation with vast quantities of propaganda for the purpose of influencing public opinion in this country. Reports of actual events are so severely censored, and so many false reports are issued, that it is hard to get a fair account of actual happenings. Scare headlines appear in the daily papers of the world, only to be contradicted or forgotten in the next edition be-

cause there was no actual foundation for the statements covered by such headings. In the Weekly News Analysis we are printing each week, our readers find a concise factual statement of events in Europe, with such interpretation, explanation and comment as will make the report of these actual happenings easily understood. It provides the most, valuable coverage of the war to be found in any publication. Weekly New’s Analysis is prepared for us each week by Mr. Joseph W, La Bine, a careful observer and talented writer, who has made a thorough study of European history of modern times and of European armaments. Mr. La Bine is a product of rural America. He was born and raised in a small town and completed his education at a mid-western university, where he majored in journalism. Following his completion of the journalism course, he worked on a weekly newspaper, before going into the metropolitan field. He has specialized as a commentator and is recognized as having unusual ability in that line. His Weekly News Analysis, as it appears in our columns, presents evidence of that ability. Our readers can confidently accept Mr. La Bine’s statements of war happenings, and his comments, as the basis of their discussions of the war.

JOSEPH W. LaBINE