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SKIHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Bundar. May 21. 1950 l II f . 'll..r? Another War for U.S. Would Be Country's Fault, U.P. Head Says Plan for America Loi Anaeles. Mav 20 U.R- If the United States gets into another war "it will be our own fault because we have led some eeressor to believe we could h. lirksri " Huah Bnlllle. presi- dent of the United Press, said today in an address dedicating Founders Hall at the University of Southern California, "We got into the last two wars that way," the news service ex ecutive said. "The kaiser thought we wouldn't f;ght and that we couldn't transport an army to EuroDe. The Japanese thought we could be licked. Hence Pearl Harbor. Hitler also shared that delusion. Personally I am in favor of enough publicity about our war machine so that hostile nations . . . will be airaia io at tack us." Dedicates Building Bailie dedicated the new building at alumni day exercises on the campus of USC where he was a member of the class of 1915. At today's ceremonies the university awarded him the hon orary degree of doctor oi laws. Baillie said that in his judg ment the chances are against a premeditated military attack on the United States as long as the Nurnberg hangings are remen bered. " I remember them very well," he said. I know personally number of those who were hanged. I shall never forget how they eyed me In the courtroom when they saw me in the press box those nazis wtiora i naci seen and talked with when they were in positions of high power in the German government and the German army, "Another possible deterrent to war today is the fact that epi sodes or incidents which would have caused war in the past, no longer do so. We are more tol erant, perhaps too tolerant. Things like the shooting down of a navy Privateer plane in tne Baltic are passed over in an ex change of notes. Now our planes nave been told to remain away from the Baltic. Doubtless the statesmen know better than I do whether this is a better deterrent to war than having a parade of B-Z9s with plenty of fighter es cort sweep the Baltic every day." Believers in Minority Referring to the newspaper man's role in the modern worl Baillie warned that those who believe In the basic freedoms, In cluding freedom of speech and freedom of the press, are in a minority In the world today. He declared that the majority is growing larger with the spread of dictatorships and totalitarian governments. "It Is the responsibility of each of us who runs a news agency or a newspaper to see to it that every bit of news is weighed for trust and handled with due re gard for its actual significance and importance, so that the day to day history of these events m a y be told accurately, com pletely, with no taint of bias or prejudice," Baillie said. "The evil effects of having this 1 e a r vision obscured through any Interference with a free press in this country or abroad are Incalculable. Of course, in vast areas of the world the free presa Is gone. Two years ago I at tended at Geneva the United Na tions conference on freedom of information and the press, where more than SO nations tried to agree on a treaty guaranteeing freedom of information. It turn ed out that various blocs of coun tries had their own ideas as to what freedom of information meant, with the result that little was accomplished, except that the spotlight of publicity was placed on tne prooiem. ivei since then, freedom of informa tion abroad has been losing ground, engulfed behind the iron curtain or weakened by govern ment regulations In many coun tries which are not behind the iron curtain. Press Freedom Taken "The first move of any would- be dictator is to install a min istry of press and propaganda, by whatever name it may be called, and abolish freedom of the press. Tne dictator never aa mit. that he is killing press free dom. He explains that now the government is going to improve the press by insuring that the newspapers an print tne iruin and that they publish nothing that would harm their country. Of course there has to be a judge of all this, an arbiter to decide what is truth and what is not. what is good for the body politic and what is not. The judge and arbiter always is the government itself. "With this established, the government can proceed at Its leisure to cnioroiorm ine ciiutii side of men's minds. To use a psychological term, tney are ennri itioned' to think what their rulers want them to think. Their judgment of the important is sues of the day is no longer free. They are conditioned so that as time goes on they more and more easily accept their master s voice in the government propaganda bureau as they would the word from on high. Action Defended In the countries where this haDDens. it is defended by saying that the press still is free, that it belnnes to the people, that after all the government is the best judge of what is good for them to read. "That is the way it always be gins. There is a group ot so-caneo experts who could improve the press, so they say, if they could just have a little authority over Wheel Chair Veterans Slate Fishing Trips Potters Mills. Pa. U.R Blind and crippled war veterans will be able to enjoy fishing in one of Pennsylvania's best trout streams at a "wheel chair fisherman's paradise" near here. Ramps and special streamside facilities were laid out along Potter Run by the Spring Mills Fish and Game association, with the co-operation of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The set-aside area covers one-quarter mile long the stream. Other fishermen working their way along the stream would skirt me project and resume their cast- ng again on the other side. Still incomplete, the protect had only one visitor on the open ing day of trout season. Lowell Smith, paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheel chair, caught his full limit of 10 trout. All were about 12 Inches. FIVE BABIES IN YEAR Atlanta (U.R) Mrs. John Gibbs ave birth to triplets and twins n the same year. t 1 W-3 Princess Gardner UP PROM PINK YIPPEE YELLOW pietty paHeh BLUE BLAZES LIMELIGHT In rich Trnpunto (quilted lambskin). They're gay, witty gifts for grad uation, bridesmaids, birthdays. TOTEM 15,00 phi m k. REGISTRAR .... 3.5 plus las , Matching KEYGARD 1.S plus ka GEEE ffl (ffll 338?7 rAtnv.w (uv.u i 1 one phase of it. If they could make the press print more of one kind of news and less of an other, they are sure they could create better understanding and less conflict all around. "This bit of sophistry is blind to the meaning of a free press as we know it in this country. Our free press belongs to the people and one of its most importa'nt functions is to be free to check up on and tell them what the government is doing. "In countries where there Is no free press the new generation is lost to the truth and the loss, I fear, is irreparable. "We who believe In freadom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, of rpeecn and of the press, are in a minor ity In the world today. The ma jority is growing. These free doms are our chief bulwark against the further spread of dic tatorships and totalitarian gov ernments. San Francisco, May 20 U.R) Gen. Omar N. Bradley predict ed today that Russia probably will have enough atomic bombs in a few years to deliver i "devastating blow" anywhere. To meet this threat "of the atomic blackmailer," the chair man of the joint chiefs of staff set forth a four-point must' program: 1. 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