Washington, May 5.
The six hundred leading news: paper publishers of the United States decided at this year's meeting of their association that the freedom of the press. one of the dearest of America's Constitutional liberties, was danger. Are their fears justified, or were they as President Roosevelt once remarked when publishers were Tooking askance at the N R.A newspaper code, "seeing bogies under the When the American citizen sits down to compare his lot with that of his European brother he will frst congratulate himself upon his high fiving standard, on the fact that in the United States a motor car. a tele phone and a radio are no longer Tuxuries, but necessities. Aman can drive up In his Ford to draw. his relict cheque and no one will think it unusual. Second in importance he would at the moment no doubt rate his freedom from fear of war, and through a hazy amalgam of carly school teaching and later newspaper Yeading identify free American institutions so unlike the undemocratic governments of nations in the old world as responsible. Third this analytical and imaginary American would congratulate himself on the fact that in the United States he was 'a. free man and what he did" nobody's business."
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