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ihe free press has particular significance at this time, with the election just a month in the future. A candidate made a classic remark years ago that is usually repeated in newspaperworkers’ circles of talk; “It’s not freedom of the press that bothers me,’’ the candidate is quoted ,as stating, “but fear of the press.” That statement was a compliment to newspapers; for if a candidate fears the free press, he must have something to hide.
With about 60% of the newspapers declared for Eisenhower at this time, it would seem that the Democrat candidate might cry for a little more “freedom” of the press for him. Some newspaper men will te^, Mr. Stevenson to cease his worry; for it is recalled that about that same percentage of newspapers in 1948 were declared fpr Dewey!
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and the rest of the responsibility will have to fall on me, I reckon.
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A copy of a weekly paper 'has just arrived from a printer friend in Georgia. I see by an announcment that he has just got a new printer’s devil and an item reads: “All the mistakes in the paper are due to the printer’s devil, who is new at the job; please excuse.”
Phew If that printer’s devil is willing to be whipping boy, he can have his choice of any job anywhere. That’s what we need (and I doubt that the printing business is by itself in this respect)—some one to take the blame for all our mistakes!
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“If all the cars in the country were placed bumper to bumper, it would be Sunday afternoon.”
We can surely agree with the quote for the next three weeks. Rappahannock and Skyline Drive will be putting on its autumn show
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