BEAVERTON ENTERPRISE— Fndoy, September 30, 1949
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S T A N L E Y W N E TH E R TO N
MRS ED N A BLACK
W A L L Y K A IN
— -Editor and Publisher
Editor-Office Mgr.
....... News Editor
M m m im
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P i l l i l i Iti
I AT I I I
FREEDOM AND YOUR NEWSPAPER
e
O f the many factors that shape the minds
o f men, it is a newspaper, coming with peri
odic regularity, that is potentially the most
forceful. Accepted into a home as a reliable
source o f information, a newspaper may re
ward its read
ers by the facts
that it disclos
es. O f critical
i m p o r t ance,
however, is t hepr e e J ^ m G o e s W h e r e
■onfidence with
which it is r e - The N e w s p a p e r G o e s
ceived. Out o f
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this fact stems
the
strength
o f a publica
tion.
In the Uni
ted States, there is a largely unfettered
press, which goes about its business o f dis
seminating news unfearful o f the heavy
hand o f censorship. By constitutional right,
no ban nor official reprisal can effectively
muzzle the press in its determination to
print the truth.
Certainly, i f there is a censorship o f news
in this land (and the question is well-debat
able) it is in the policy and selectivity o f the
individual paper itself. There is no agency o f
government nor combination o f private in
terests that can effectively handcuff the na
tion’s press and still its re|x>rt on any local
or national issue.
Let it not l>e assumed, o f course, that
there are no attempts made in this direction.
Certainly there are forces which would jump
to the chance o f doing so. But by the influ
ence of numbers and the national traditions,
they get short shift.
Nowhere in the world is there a more
complete freedom o f the press than here.
Except for the principles of good taste and
the laws o f libel, a person or a cor|>oration
is without restriction as to what can appear
in print.
A grave responsibility goes with this free
dom. The price o f lilierty is eternal vigilance
and a new.spa|>er must discipline itself to the
standards o f an unbiased, unprejudiced pre
sentation of news if it would help maintain
its professional status quo.
These are tumultous times, not yet re
covered from the effects o f the last World
War, in which a free flow of news has dra
m atic effect 111 world opinion. Hoe lam rnta
ble that in other nations the truth must lx*
bent to conform to political convenience!
The propogandn power o f the press, wheth
er it is in the hands of an absolute govern
ment or an absolute special interest, is e f
fective only wherever an opposition voice is
stilled. Surely the emasculation of rights
and the perversion o f lilx*rties will l>e as d if
ficult as the faithfulness with which an op
position voice is tolerated.
An enlightened public opinion in some de
gree polices the newspa|x*r industry. W ith
out the confidence o f its readers, no publica
tion will go very far. . . very long. It is this
factor, recognized by newspapers, that works
a powerful influence upon the policy o f news
and editorial presentation.
From Octolier 1 to Octolx*r 8, this year,
the newspa|x*r industry observes its tenth
annual week with a slogan “ Freedom Goes
Where the Nowspa|>er Goes." Might it also
lie noted that a newspaper is largely accept
ed by a free people in the degree that free
dom permits the press to speak boldly and
honestly on matters of significance.
The constitutional guarantees of free
speech, press and assembly liecomes a
strength and a bulwark when it is translated
in terms o f the American Press.
ATOM
I TOtl Al
oí V ti ' cín
BOMB
BALANCE
The news was given in solemn pronounce
ment by President Harry S. Truman and. as
when a weighty rock is dropped into a placid
pool, the ripples reach far.
Practically every daily paper emblazoned
the news in large, boid headlines. Radio
newscasters tied their tongues in knots vo
ciferating the alarming revelation. News,
analysts and commentators turned the situa
tion over and over, on its side and upside
down, exposing all possible views to inter
pretation.
To the man in the street or the house
w ife in range o f her radio set. the cataclys
mic development was that the United States
had discovered that Soviet Russia had the
Atom Bomb!
Forces o f communication and information
went a long way to properly impress— in
fact din into the ears o f the public this sig
nificant news. And well they might, for if
ever there was a significant matter this
m ight well be it.
There has lx*en enough hubbub and hul
labaloo over the atom l>omb to make one
grow ingly weary o f it. So radical a depar
ture from the traditional American feeling
has been the undisguised atom-bomb diplo-
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macy marking a portion o f our foreign pol
icy as to cause an uneasiness among those
who will be called upon to suffer the next
world war as a combatant or a civilian cas
ualty.
Make no doubt about it, the atom bomb
is a responsibility. It is a departure in war
fare of far-reaching possibilities and could
spell the doom o f civilization at the same
time it could demonstrate power superiority.
With only nine atomic explosions recorded
so far, there yet are few the world over
which do not read the terrible, frightening
aspects o f its development and refinement.
Atomic knowledge, to be sure, ranks with
the power of Samson of Biblical fame. In the
hands of overambitious zealots only intent
upon their own domination of the world, it
would wreak havoc without parallel and
perhaps put the world down in the process.
But in the hands of anyone, following hu
man instinct, it could be (as it has been)
held as a threat o f extinction as reprisal.
So, the news of Russia having achieved
the atomic bomb manufacture might just
possibly have a healthy effect toward future
P N C *. The atomic explosión mysteriously
recorded and revealed by the President of
the United States, must certainly have de-
vasted the area in which it was detonated.
Surely, if they knew it not before, the Sov
iets had graphic illustration o f the destruc
tion one bomb could occasion. And by the
same supposition, they can but realize that
nothing would finally be gained or proved
by unlimited atomic warfare.
The Russians, it has been amply pointed
out by commentators beyond numlier, are
politically ambitious. And they are the most
commonly accepted foes to “ Western De
mocracy” , which in truth represents all
shades of government.
Likewise, it is impossible to gainsay there
is the vigorous seed o f international ambi
tion in our own United States. It would not
be too far-fetched to observe that the powers
of government, if they were to fall into the
absolute hands o f some, would predicate a
most unusual career o f political ambition.
There is some hope to thosé who abhor
the thoughts o f the next world holocaust in
the fact that Russia has the atom bomb in
the possibility that they can but recognize
the terrible aspects o f this weapon. Perhaps
this will equalize the two nations which have
figuratively been at each other’s throats
practically at the end of World W ar II.
Perhaps it will prove to l>e the atomic
bomb balance which will lead the way to a
golden era of peace and world prosperity.
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Certain unfortunate countries deny their
newspapers and their citizens the right to
give and receive this vital service (freedom
of the press).
“ 1. personally, would want no part o f the.
life of those countries.”
Douglas McKay, Governor. |
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PEOPI.E PEOPLE ELECT
In the people people elect, there is a shin
ing example o f the simple faith that humans
invest in other humans.
No matter the political office nor the de
gree o f eminence, the vote that is cast for
any candidate should I k * considered a testi
mony o f confidence as high as can lx* given.
How scoundrels sneak into office and then
have the gall and effront to command the
respect and confidence o f the electorate they
have bamboozled and defrauded is one o f
the unhappy features o f the democratic pro
cesses.
I f a man is o f any worth, he should have
honor and some degree o f humility. Particu
larly should these Qualities show up when a
man accepts a position o f public trust. Arro
gance. pomposity, swank and swagger should
not lx* the mark o f an elected official.
Yet, sometimes, it is nothing less than
amazing to regard some o f the people that
people vote for. Sometimes a vote is influ
enced by a family tradition o f party a ffili
ation— like lx*ing a Republican or a Demo
crat because one’s forefathers had cast a
straight party ballot from the dim beginings
o f the affiliation. As backward, too, is the
refusal to vote for a candidate because he
is listed in a certain party, regardless of his
other qualifications.
No doubt, the slipshod choice o f some can
didates results from the inability o f a poli
tical party to police its candidates, to deny
them the party lalx*l if they are not quali
fied by certain minimum standards.
It must lx* recognized .in all fairness, that
sometimes the honest and sincere candidate
is less flashy and at a disadvantage when 1
opixksed by one who holds truth lightly and
can fabricate with ease the most believable
fiction. Much of the responsibility for the
wrong men in office must lx* assumed by
candidates who fail to make a valiant
enough effort to get themselves elected.
In the end. the ones who pay are those
defrauded by the |x*ople people elect.
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