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This is our view: Your Right To Know

This week America is observing “National Newspaper Week,” and the papers thru-out the land are printing editorials using the theme “Your Right to Know is the Key to All Your Liberties” as their guide.

We recently ran across an editorial on that subject by Henry Ladd Smith of the University of Wisconsin and are reprinting it for your edification. A critic df our press who thought of himself as a wit and was probably* half right, once said that the average American firmly believes there are only two kinds of newspapers—bad ones, and the kind he would produce if only he were the editor. Criticism of our press is as natural to Americans as the right to jeer the' umpire. But in the wave of cynicism that follows every great war, there are scoffers who insist that our press ho longer has purpose or meaning. To them the slogan, “Your right to know is the key to all your liberties,” adopted as the battle cry for National Newspaper Week in October is only an empty phrase. Perhaps the valtdity of the statement can best be defended by citing a specific case. The Iron Curtain ,

Americans have been concerned of late by the so-called ‘“lron Curtain” erected by the Soviets around their own and satellite countries. The Iron Curtain is nothing more than a sealing off of the area from all exchange of information or “intelligence.” We have resented that barrier and have interpreted it as a deliberate insult by the Communists. Yet as Professor Robert L. Reynolds of the Universiy of Wisconsin history department told a conference of editors last spring, the iron Curtain is at least 1,500 years old. It was maintained not only by the Communists, but by theé Czars and the original Mongol invaders. There have been iron curtains in Japan, China, or wherever governing control belongs to an elite group. The only people in any country who need an unlimited exchange ol iniormation" are those who rule. In the USSR only "a small core of the people have conirol of policy. They need information and they get it through business ageiis, civil and military attaches, and spies. But the vast majority of people, having no voice in government, have no need of such information. Indeed, such information may be dangerous, -since it may weaken the power of the controlling group. - o n e The People Rule

‘ln the United States the people rule—and since they are in control of policy, they: need, and get, information. Again the cynic gives a faint curl of his upper lip. He points to the Pendergasts, Hagues, Crumps, and the long line of bosses who have manipulated the vote, and- he declares that the rule of the people is only an illusion. There have been times, it is true, when populay sovereignty appears to have broken down. But the proof of its strength is its record. In spite of the weaknesses of our system, it has proved superior to the most ruthless challengers. It has stood the test because in ecritical times the, people can reject unworthy leaders. They may not know for whom they are voting,.but they know in a ecrisis what they are voting against. No one can long flout public opinion in this country. Public opinion—the voice of the people—is our ultimate rule. : . Must Have Information - -Since the people rule in America, they must have information upon which to base opinion. This does not mean military secrets, diplomatic correspondence, - or-intelligence, which, if made public, : would endanger the people’s welfare. It does include -all information necessary to help our- rulers—the people—deter‘mine matters of broad policy. Our federal, state and local governments might furnish this information, but it would -+ Ceontinued on Fage 9

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MUSINGS OF AN EDITOR by Calhoun Cartwright

I cannot explain why I've been thinking in terms of reunions-.this week unless it could be the crisp autumn air that upon reaching my nostrils brings on the nostalgia of school days. Frankly, I seem never to grow up in that respect, for the fall of the year always ushers into my presence the urge to swing into the classroom going parade, and at times it is quite disturbing.

Not that I have an over abundant desire to learn, although learning has always interested me, but I cherish the memory of school day comradery and the carefree, romantic attitude attached to it. I liked the feeling of challenge, the day dreaming of a future, the laying of plans and the debate of hypothetical subjects. I thrilled to the tune of the band, and tenseness of the football crowds, the teams running on the field, the dance in the evening...oh yes, the happy ride home.

There was a time when the thought of reunion with old schoolmates and cronies of yesteryear intrigued me no end, but I have outgrown that particular feeling, and before you label me a callous old so and so, let me explain. It is not that I am displeased seeing them, but 1 have learned thru bitter experience how the widened path eventuauy stilus the conversation .Such meetings have unfortunately followed much the same pattern, ie., after the glad hello, and the varied Ingulries concerning the wiereavouts ot bill Smithers and Liza Cranatrance, there seeins no common ground upon which we can enjoy ourselves. I nave even caught myselr asking two and three times about Kruger Coopershulitz, and then shyly remarking, ‘1 guess I asked you about him before.” What an experience! kKven the meeting of the ooull dalvision would be a most boring ¢veut 1i it were not for the fact that a iwwal named dJohn Barlycorn lustily keeps the-gioup occupied and desencivized.

Of course, aside from the possibility of boredom come; iule possibiiity of disappointment - for reunions never measure up to the standard people generally set.. I think of the disappomntment my Father experienced when after thirty years he returned to his home County kair. " I know he expected- to meet the same friends, to find the same thrills experienced when a youth. But when he saw none he knew, and found no thrill to the hub=hub of the midway, he felt let down. He must have resolved never to attend the fair again, and how sad that is. would it not be better to remain content with our memories than to burst the bubble of a dream? :

I particularly find family reunions distasteful for much the same reasons, and I swear the same statements are repeated year in and year out. In the tirst place. 1 come away contused for there always seems to be a great division in the group as to which parent I most resemble., First, one tells me I look like my Mother and then I’m reminded I look like my Kather. This generally goes on for over an hour, and leaves me groggy.. Too, | keep wondering at the paradox of the pot-luck dinner, which linds the city dwellers bringing the fried chicken and the farm reiatives serving meat lcai. Egad, why must this be? e

Well, all in all, I find myself unhappy at reunions, and I have resolved to keep iy cherished memories happy by doing just that, keeping them memories.

We must accept the disciplines of democracy as well as its freedoms. Discipline from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak. —H. Woodburn Chase. :

Patriotism is a blind and irrational impulse unless it is founded on a knowledge of the blessings we are called to secure and the privileges we propose to defend. —Robert Hall. 2 I i . . Only free people can hold their purpose and their henor steady toa common end, and prefer the interest of mankind .to any narrow interest of their own. —Woodrow Wilson - s i "0' s .2 — "h ~ There ii nohevil we cannaot»;f?ce or fly from, but the consciousness o duty

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(Editor’s Note: While Drew Pearson is on vacation, the Washington Merry-Go-Round is being written by his old partner, Robert 8. Allen.) Lewis May Retire ‘ JOHN L. LEWIS intimates are whispering . a startling - report about him. : They say he is seriously considering retiring as president of the United Mine Workers at the union’s October 2 convention in Cinecinnati. Poor health is given as Lewis’ reason., The 68-year-old miner czar has had a number of sick spells in the last few years. He is suffering from a circulatory ailment that affects the heart. The past two months Lewis was in seclusion at a Montana health resort, on the advice of his doctors.

If Lewis steps down, he will | do so at the peak of his power and with his union larger and more prosperous than at any time in its stormy history. Miners are drawing more pay than ever before, receive bigger pensions, and the UMW treasury bulges with more than 10 million dollars in government securities. In the event Lewis quits, his suecessor will be UMW Vice President Tom Kennedy. Short, quiet-man-nered, soft-spoken and friendly, he is the direct antithesis to the turbulent and melodramatic Lewis. But the two men are very close. Lewis’ retirement- plan, according to .Intimates, does not include complete separation from the UMW. He will retain an active hold on its affairs. : ® & ®

Campaign Bombshell President Truman is quietly nursing a bombshell he will detonate during his western campaign ftour. | It will be the announcement that a number of reclamation projects will have to be shut down because the G.00.P.-con-trolled congress failed to provide sufficient funds. Top among these projects are Boysen in Wyoming, Heart river and Angostura in the Dakotas. The President will charge this is another example of congressional disregard of public welfare.

@ » & More Fuels Assured The outlook 1s very promising for more fuels this coming winter than last. - Barring some .unexpected upset, the supply of coal, oil and natural gas will be from 10 to 20 per cent greater than last winter. Certain sections may encounter shortages but the country generally will have enough winter fuels to meet normal needs. Of the three major fuels, coal .is in best supply. Reserve stocks are now so ample that restrictions on foreign export were removed September 1. Fuel oil output is now 10 per cent above that of last year—an increase slightly above the expansion in use of this fuel. Also, reserve stocks are considerably ahead of 1947, If everyone uses restraint, there .will be enough fuels for all this winter, ss 8 : Biting the Hand . ~ The Greek government doesn't like the salaries the U. S. is paying its Greek aid mission officials. This money comes from U. S. taxpayers, the same as the remainder of the $500,000,000 the U. S. is pouring into- Greece for recovery and military purposes. Also, the two toughest prob‘lems confronting aid officials are to try to get the Greek government to impose a just tax on its wealthy classes and to lop - off thousands of drones on the government payroll. | Notwithstanding - all this, the Greek national economy commission, at a recent meeting, sharply assailed U, S, mission pay scales. The commission . was particularly outraged by one salary for $12,000 a year and another for $lO,OOO. These were held ‘‘out of proportion not only in relation to the salaries of local employees but also to those which the U. 8. pays its highest officers.” : ® & o 2 e Best - Selling Diary The U. S. government is profiting very handsomely from the diary of the late and unlamented Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister. To date, the publication has netted the alien property custodian over $300,000. = Found by a 8 German in Berinitially traded for 16 cartons of - cigarettes. = . For a while, it looked like the lucky American pfi%would_ make abi iu ng from book, magazine and newspaper syndication sales. But Asst. Atty, Ge Bazalon stepped.in and eclaimed the work as U. 8. property. It has been.

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% Veterans Information %

Local veteran’s -affairs officer, F. D. Uhl today urged veterans entering training for the first time under the G.I. Bill of Rights to apply for their certificates of eligibility at least 30 days prior to the date they plan to start training. Apply for your certificate as soon as possible if you are starting training after September 1, 1943, suggests Mr. Uhl.

The new method of applying for these certificates is debigned tg assure prompt payment of subsistence allowancé to veteran-stu-dents by elimination of processing after enrollments, and to speed up processing of enrollments and ease the administrative problems of both VA and participating educational institutions. ‘Mr. Uhl stated that veterans will continue to apply for their

RELIGION FOR THE MODERN WORLD

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HERE IS a brief Bible quiz: What Christian man did Paul recommend to the Phillipians as the one completely unselfish person

he knew? When Paul needed a man to present his ideas to a_“problem church” whom did he send? When Paul wanted reliable information about a church, on whose report did he depend?. Whom did Paul call ‘‘son’’

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more often than any one else? The answer to all these questions is the same: Timothy. Certainly a man whom the great Saint Paul found so congenial, so reliable, so unselfish and effective a Christian, is a man. worth our careful attention. We ask this question about him: What made him ~ what he was? , * % = Faith at Home SOME MEN have to leave home to find faith. But perhaps the happiest Christians, certainly the most fortunate, are those who cannot remember what it was not to have faith. It was the atmosphere they breathed as children. The first people they knew were Chirstians, prayer and faith were taken for granted, the name of Christ washeard only in reverence and love, never in jest or anger, ' Timothy grew up in such a home. When he became a mature, work~ing Christian he had no wasted years to regret, no wild oats to pull up. The faith of his adult mind was not scarred by the acid remains of earlier doubt. Timothy’s life was all of one piece.” He was born to faith, he grew up in it. 'Homes can do a great deal for the children who live in them. , But nothing else — physical * health, poise, culture, friends, ambition—nothing else is quite 4 Ii gxeg;utamxmax. s ¥n

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be pounded into a person or shocked into him; but in childhood faith is woven in, welded in, and that is as it should be. Happy the Christian who does not have to turn his back on his childhood when he turns his face to Christ! * %X % ' Book of Wisdem “R ELIGION cannot be taught. h. it can only be caught,” is-an old saying. It is partly true, for you cannot set any dozen people at random down on a bench and teach them into faith. If teaching religion were as simple as that, then every Sunday school could guarantee that every one of its graduates would become a saint. Nevertheless, religion can partly be taught, for in a book there may be ecrystallized the faith of many a generation. A book may concentrate and preserve the insight, the inspiration, the assurance of men and women who though dead yet speak. Living with books of faith is like living with many families of faith at the same time. Such a book is the Bible. And it was the Bible, or so much of it as had been written, the Old Testament, which was the one Book in Timothy’s boyhood home. Through the Scriptures, the boy’s mother taught her son not merely her own faith but that of many a generation before her time In our own day, parents may

feel that they come too far short of being saints, so they hesitate about urging their perhaps dim-ly-felt religion on their children. Yet in our Bible there is open to all fathers and mothers a means of placing their children in an atmosphere of intense faith. Personal religious genius is rare. but even though you may be any thing but a genius, you still can bring to your child the treasures of the Bible, product of the highest inspiration and insight the world has known. e ®* % =% Women of the Family TIMOTHY’S FATHER was Greek, probably not a Christian He and Timothy may never have understood each other. It was the women of the family who moldec the boy’s mind and heart, his mother, Eunice, and his grand mother, Lois. s It is always so. It is the wome: of a family whe have most influ ence for faith or against it. The boy knows his mother before h: knows ‘anyone else. She teache: him to talk, he absorbs her atti tudes and ideas even before he un derstands them. llf father and mother differ in religion, it is likely ~that childen will follow mother rather than father. : : L 5 T L opaminating. | Aalcsd. 1

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WHILE various promoters still are groping in the dark for a new heavyweight champion, with Joe Louis in possible retirement, there is a chance that the world soon will be cluttered up with exheavyweight stars. They make an interesting group: , It was a matter of 49 years ago that Jim Jeffries knocked out Bob

Fitzsimmons. The heavyweight champions followed in this order: Tommy Burns, Jack Johnson, Jess Willard, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Max :,Schmel‘ing, Jack Sharkey, Primo Carnera, Max Baer, - Jim Braddock and finally Louis. From this parade

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: : of 12 men, only Johnson is missing. And he was killed in a motor car accident. Jeffries is still alive—hale and rather hearty—and so are Burns, Willard, Dempsey, Tunney, Schmeling, Sharkey, Carnera, Baer, Braddock and Louis. The span from Jeffries to - Louis covers almost half a century, and to have 11 out of 12 ex-champions still inhabiting this planet is full proof they are a hardy lot. Big Carnera still is wrestling, or giving imitations thereof, and Dempsey still is refereeing now and then. Jeffries has been running a boxing school and holding fight nights. Louis says he is through, but he still hasn’t turned in any formal or official abdication. Still in Good Shape = Two men still in fine physical shape are Dempsey and Tunney. Both” are now around 220 pounds, which could be a trifle lower, but they still look like ex-champions ought to look. At least they look as if they could handle most of the phony heavyweights I've seen around in the last few years. It might also be mentioned that outside of Louis, the two old rivals are better fixed financially than any other heavyweight in history. Dempsey has one of the most beautiful homes " in Los Angeles for his two daughters, while Tunney and his family never will have to worry about the next beefsteak and caviar. i

I understand Sharkey isn’t doing too badly, and I know Carnera has been mopping up in the weird and incredible wrestling game. A Memorable Group Is it possible there could be any group more different than the 11 heavyweight champions still living? I doubt it. I'd like to see motion picture shorts made of their lives: The big, burly bald-headed Jeffries—now over 70—the toughest of them all. He was an old man physically when he fought Johnson, who was far below Louis in all moral values—but a great fighter. Burns—over 60—hooked in some odd philosophy of life. Willard — a. 260-pound giant—the least equipped of them all mentally. Just a guy who weighed 250 pounds. Ask Dempsey—and others. Dempsey — a firebrand in his day, an ex-hobo. Babe Ruth’s successor. Tough and rough in the ring. One of the few gentlemen I've known outside of the ring. The one colorful figure left in sport. "~ Dempsey, the killer, is also Dempsey who always thinks of the underdog and has given away more money*to bums and has-beens than any two men in sports. As great a guy as anyone | ever met. I only wish I knew more words to write about him. - :

Tunney —the man who made himself. A man of character and intelligence. Not too much inclined towards popularity. Dempsey loved people; Tunney neyer did. Smart, keen, a man of indomitable will power. A man you must know to like, since he makes no effort to make new friends. But one who has written a great chapter in sport that will be remembered later on. Far up_the ladder. Fill-Ins forgl'unney Schmeling, Sharkey, Carnera, Baer, Braddock. Here are five heavyweights that just happened to fill in after Tunney retired. Dempsey at his peak could have stopped them all in two rounds. Tunney could have chopped them into mincemeat. -

Carnera was a clown. Sharkey was another might-have-been, who was never too smart in the ring. “I had Dempsey knocked out.in the first round,” he told me, ‘“‘when I stopped to make an address to the crowd that had hooted me. Dempsey was on the ropes.” b Now Louis. A great champion. A boxer and a puncher. Especially a puncher. Game, but no Dempsey at taking a punch. They all came along and knocked Louis down. ‘I think Dempsey would have knocked 3