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Library of Congress1945

Image 4 of The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser (Pascagoula, Miss.), October 12, 1945, (SECTION ONE)

1 To Keep A Free Press Free Recently the newspapers of tins country made annual observance of Newspaper Week and once again we looked on with interest and mixed feelings as one great journal after another and many a small one treated its readership to an editorial diet of sanctity and selfpraise We are proud of the free American press and would rather be a part of this business than any other But we cannot help regretting a maudling element in our business which seeps into the editorial pages oi ine nation on such occasions as News paper Week To get down to details one theme we do not like to see spread across these pages is the theme of selfcongratulation because wethe newspaper industry honestly report the news It is a newspapers implicit duty honestly to report the news No newspaper in America ex ists without its own slants and opinions and spe cial axes to grind whether these be on behalf of some ideal or on behalf of some very special and selfish interest But the tradition of a free press demands that the newspaper leave these slants and opinions to the editorial pages and that its newscolumns

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Library of Congress1945

Image 1 of The Herald-news (Wolf Point, Mont.), September 27, 1945

jP Pioneer Voice of the Community Established in 1913 Volume ThirtyTwo No 36 VFW DIST 5 FIRST ENCAMPMENT SUNDAY Dr H J Huene Montana Dept Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was in Wolf Point September 23 to organize the Northeastern District of Montana The new District consists of eight posts and three auxiliaries The following District officers Were installed by Kirk Beede De partment Vice Commander of Glasgow District Commander Sanford Mahlum Wolf Point District Vice Commander C P Fulkerson Plentywood District Junior Vice Command er Rodger Ulrich Malta District Chaplain M H Mc Kinzie Reserve District Quartermaster Harry Skrivans Wolf Point Margaret Green Department Chief of Staff was in charge of the Ladies Auxiliary meeting The floor work was exemplified by the officers of the Poplar Aux iliary Mabel Iverson of Poplar was in stalled as District President and Phoebe Johnston of Wolf Point as District Secretary The Gold Star Mothers were introduced and presented with corsages After the meetings a banquet was held at the Parish Hall at which Kirk Beede was Toastmast er The welcoming address was given by Mayor Feda of Wolf Point and an interesting talk was delivered by Department Com mander Dr

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Library of Congress1945

Image 8 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 10, 1945

THE JACKSON ADVOCATE 125H N Farih StreetPhone 33181 Published Weekly at Jackson Mississippi iERCY GREENE Editor and General Manage SUBSCRIPTION RATES AH Subscriptions Due and Payable in Advance Single Copy 6c One Yean 350 6 Months 200 3 Months 125 Make all checks payable to The Jackson Advocate In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers but in all things that affect our mutual progress and development we can be together as the handBooker T Washing ton The 118th Anniversary Of The Negro Newspaper Last Sunday brought to a close the annual observance of Na tional Negro Newspaper Week which included the issuance and publication of a letter of commendation from the President of the United States a radio program broadcast over a nationwide hook up and programs of observance in schools colleges churches bv civic and fraternal groups in village town and city in every sec tion of the nation which was probably the most widespread and general observance since its institution of few years ago No person who s in possession of even the slightest knowledge of the history of the United States and of the evolution of th great cohesive

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