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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at
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March 3, 1879.
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_Wednesday, May 23, 1945
KEEP NEWS FREE
(Daily Alaska Empire)
The executive director of The Asso
ciated Press, Kent Cooper, used a good
new phrase for an old freedom in a recent
address in New York. He spoke of ‘ the
right to know.” The citizen is entitled to
have access to the news, fully and accu
rately presented. There cannot be politi
cal freedom in one country, or in the
world, without respect for ‘‘the right to
know.”
Mr. Cooper believes that ‘‘if at Ver
sailles we had insisted upon freedom of
the press in Germany, and if we had com
pelled our French and English allies to
put aside their selfish plans for the estab
lishment of their own news hegemony
over Germany, this war may not have oc
curred so soon, if at all.” But the failure
to keep news free and unpolluted in Ger
many and on the Continent was only part
of a general failure. If we had controlled
Germany to the extent of keeping her
press free after the rise of Hitler we
would also have prevented his rise. If we
had had an international understanding
and an international agency to keep all
world news free, the same understanding
and agency would h3ve been used in
other fields.
It remains true that control of news
for evil purposes has been both a symp
tom and a cause of the decline of freedom
in the world. Newspaper makers and
newspaper readers alike can follow Mr.
Cooper in his advocacy of a “world-wide
free press, a world-wide communication
system and the necessary facilities for
newsmen to do their work evervwhere
without interference.” In war or in condi
tions approaching war this ideal opnnot
be fully realized. In peace it can be real
ized only if it is written into terms of sur
render for our enemies and voluntarily
accepted by our selves and our friends.
We canot force it, for instance, upon Rus
sia, whose conceptions of press freedom
are not like ours. But we can work for as
wide an international agreement for this
freedom as is now possible, and we can
use it to educate those of our friends who
are skeptical. For such freedom is not
merely a right. It is a necessity for every
country which intends to utilize to the
full the creative powers of its citizens. In
the long run it is the well-informed peo
ples who will be free.
Comparing a newspaper with a woman: They
have forms; they always have the last word; back
numbers are not in demand; they have a great
deal of influence; they are well worth looking
over; you cannot believe everything they say;
they carry the news wherever they go; they are
much thinner than they used to be.
Don’t complain if you aren’t getting what you
want. Be thankful that you’re not getting what
you deserve.
_IT MUST Ee KEPT OUT OP THE KED
looms
ABAS
FOLLOW THROUGH
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Do you believe working people
have a right to organize and bar
gain as a group for their general
betterment? Do you believe a man
who has saved some money has a
right to invest it in any business
he likes and to operate that busi
i ness, trying to make a reasonable
| profit? Do you believe that big
volume production at low cost is
the key to good pay? My answer is
yes. to all three questions.
If you agree, you subscribe to
the fundamentals of the Labor
Management Charter. It was
signed in Washington last March
28 by William Green, for the
American Federation of Labor,
Eric Johnson for United States
Chamber of Commerce, and Phil
Murray for the Congress of Indus
trial Organizations. It is a power
ful document, able if carried out
to do the world more good than
the famous Atlantic Charter.
Nothing Original
People who work surely have
rights. Open competition is cer
j tainly fair. Economy of time ancfc
t effort yields positive rewards.
These ideas are not original. They
are old and time-tested principles.
All of them stand out clearly in
the teachings of Jesus and of many
great men who have lived and en
riched the world more recently.
They appear in the Labor-Man
agement Charter.
Besides declaring the rights of
labor, the fairness of competition
and the dividends of economy, the
Labor-Management Charter con
tains two vital pledges: (1) To set
tle industrial disputes peaceably—
no strikes, no violence, no lock
outs, no trickery, and (2) To sup
port a sound economic system in
America — an expanding foreign
trade and an enduring peace. Both
are perfectly sound.
Big Responsibility
Being the richest and strongest
nation in the world, the United
States has a serious responsibility.
It is graver than ever now, with a
global war to finish and the world
to be set in order. Miss Columbia
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must point the way and she stands
at the crossroads. America’s choice
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will determine which way the
whole world goes; to peace and
plenty or to poverty and oppres
sion.
Of the 200 billion people who
have lived on earth, not more than
2% could call their souls their
own. The way of the world has
always been oppression and it still
is. Now especially the trend is
toward distatorships. Not 20% of
the people nuw living ever dream
fed of freedom and prosperity I ke
vve enjoy. America is in actual dan
1 ger of being carried with the po
! litical tide.
Jobs and Markets
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The Labor-Management Char
ter points the right way; toward
' freedom of faith, security of own
ership and liberty in self-govem
! men*. Like any guide-post it is
| powerless in itself,'useful only if
j it is followed. If followed, how
ever, it indicates an orderly tran
sition from war to victory in peace
and prosperity. If it is ignoredj
our alternate course leads to eco
nomic war, government by edict,
: lower wages and less of the things
people want.
The system of open competition
in enterprise made America the
! world’s most influential nation
i and kept it in the forefront of hu
man progress for 170 years. A re
, cent survey shows that conserva
| tive business men are ready, if
i they have a chance, to offer more
| than one job per avaliable worker
| after the war. For full employ
ment, good pay, ready markets
| and active business, let’s follow
j through with the Labor-Manage
| ment Charter.
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ADDITION
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j mittee wishes to thank the Alaska
I Airlines, whose name was inad
| vertently left off the list of per
sons and firms in the “thank you
: advertisement” in the Monday
edition of the Nome Nugget. We
j wish also to state that we were
unable to get the name of the
• “G.I.” who won he “nugget filled
I locket.” The committee wishes to
j thank each and everyone who
helped in any way to make the
1 party a success.
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