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Senring in Japan
Pfc, William E. Foster, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Foster of Flint Hill, has been in service 17 months with 6 months in Korea with the 13th F.A. Bn. 24th Infantry Division. He is at present a truck driver in Japan. Pfc. Foster wears the Korean ribbon, Japan Occupation ribbon, the U.N. ribbon, and three battle stars.
National Newspaper Week
This is National Newspaper Week. As is usually the case, emphasis is placed on freedom of speech, since it is the great American heritage 'used daily by newspapers throughout the land.
Newspaper History, and newspaper people, figure very small in tire celebration. Some one may print that the Alexandria Gazette is the oldest daily paper in the United States, and there may be a note on the fact that the New York Times is in its 102nd year of continuous print. Like every other trade, there are newspaper men who have clung tenaciously to their work, taking the easy with the hard, because they enjoy the fruits of their labor. The life of the newspaper worker is no bed of roses. . . neither is the life of the apple grower, the grocery store clerk, the riverter, carpenter, or banker. Each fellow works at what he lilkes.
Every man’s life is tied up with his freedom. His right to work at his job; his right to worship as he pleases; and his right to know the truth and speak it are all part of the American way of life. Since the last of these freedoms falls heavily in the work of the newspaper, then National Newspaper Week calls attention to our right to speak and think as we please.
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