One of the immortal stories of all time and one peculiarly appropriate to these incompresensible days is to be found in the third chapter of the Book of Daniel. It is not only magnificent in its imaginative grandeur, it is still more superb in the manner it sets forth the ultimate victory of loyalty to truth.
"Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold Whose -height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits, and he set it up in the plains of Dura, in Babylon." A solemn dedicatory festival was proclaimed to which were invited every type of functionary, who came to the festival, and stood before the image. Then a herald cried aloud a proclamation "to all people, nations, and periodicals, while from the offices of the Janguages." At the outburst of a blast of music various news agencies words reaching astronothey are all to fall down and worship the golden image. Anyone who refused to obey the mical figures are despatched to every quarter order was to be flung into a burning fiery of the world. furnace. The music burst forth, and the vast
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The destruction of London E.C.4. ru. mani all prostrated themselves, except three men Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Obg the defiance of the-king's edict, certain the national dailies have had arrangements(@icials came to the king and accused the Jews. made right from the commencement of the war for production elsewhere than in London, while some of them have for years had separate printing works in other parts of the country. For such papers as the "Daily Mail" and the "Daily Express" destruction of their London offices would do little more than interfere with publication, perhaps for only a day or so. It has always been realized that the daily newspaper plays so important a part in the lives of people nowadays that to deprive them of their news \night eventually prove a severe blow to their moral. The danger of that is to a great extent offset by the radio, and in this connection it is interesting to note that the B.B.C have alternative stations from which to ĉontinue their service should B.B.C. House be damaged.
But the daily paper is an institution of the "ordinary life of today, and the men who are daily risking their lives in search of the news for the information of the people are sure in the knowledge that no action of the enemy in destroying the plants of their journals will prevent the truth being disseminated. It is from the roofs of these buildings along Fleet Street and near it that observers have been able to watch the progress of the bomb: ing with considerable convenience. It is from the same offices that reporters, and photographers have sped to the areas involved in the enemy bombing. It is there that editors and sub-editors feverishly prepare copy knowing that no matter what happens the paper must be "got out," and from similar offices that cable and wireless messages are prepared giving the world the news of what is going on. No consideration of danger deters the good journalist in his search for news, and all Goering's bombers will not prevent the British public, as well as the whole world from learning all that is going on. It is a great little spot, is London E.C.4 and there is not a newspaperman, Who has smelt the odour of its ink, who is hot wishing he was there
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