The Wilmington morning star. [volume], February 22, 1945, FINAL EDITION, Image 7

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I U. S. Soldiers Hunt Snipers in a Forest
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Three American infantrymen warily advance through a forest on the Western Front passing a dead
German (foreground), in search of German sniper. The location of the action was not given in the
picture caption. (AP Wirephoto via Signal Corps Radio).
Byron Price Stresses
Responsibility In News
WASHING tun. reo. zt—tu.w—ui
rector Byron Price of the Office
of Censorship said tonight that ir
responsible journalism, bad any
time, may easily become a crime
against national security in war
time.
Speaking at ceremonies marking
nresentafioni of one off. the 14
original copies of the Bill of Rights
to the Library of Congress. He
warned against poisoning news col
umns with propaganda and private
opinions.
Freedom of the press, guarante
ed in the first amendment in the
Bill of Rights, must be preserved
and should be extended "through
out the world by the untrammeled
exchange of unbiased news among
nations,” he said.
He praised the wartime record
of newspapers, the radio and mo
tion pictures in withholding danger
ous information under the volun
tary censorship code. But patriotc
cooperation in wartime is not the
whole duty of the press—“a free
press is obligated by its birthright
to be a competent press,” he said.
He called for ‘‘progressive, un
ceasing action toward an ever
more responsible press.” he said:
"The press neither does its duty
nor fulfills its destiny if it poisons
its news columns with propaganda
and private opinions; or is care
less of its facts; or present edito
rials written by the uninformed
and swayed by hearsay; or pub
lishes misleading advertising or
vicious and sensational gossip
from what ever source.
"One of the mysteries of our own
day is the widespread assumption
that syndicated columns on any
subject and in any degree of in
accuracy or mendacity, may be
presented to tne puonc, just be
cause they are bought and paid for,
without the slightest assumption of
responsibility by the publisher.
Such a thing makes a mockery of
common sense and a travesty of
the first amendmerft.”
Price called radio “a tremendous
instrument of public expression,
undreamed of by those who wrote
the first amendment.” Any threat
to the freedom of radio should be
the “instant and commanding con
cern” of a free press, he said. He
added that radio must rely for its
freedom on the same principle of
liberty as does the press.
“How could the press hope to re
main free if any other modern
agency of communication, such as
the motion picture, were to fall
into slavery?” he asked.
He said there was a growing re
alization in the publishing industry
that “the press cannot safely rest
on its laurels,” and that “pro
gressive. unceasing action toward
an ever more responsible press” is
called for.
“The tak of promoting a con
crete program of action is one
which should commend itself to
every organization and society re
presentative of editorial enter
prise,” he said.
The freedom of the press belongs
to the people and not to the pub
lishers, he said- “A free press can
not endure unless it is a respon
sible press—the people, in due
course, will see to that.” He added
that global war has not repealed
“our rights—but it has underlined
heavily our responsibilities. We
cannot afford to forget that ru
mor, misinformation and innuendo
march to battle under the same
command with tanks ana planes.”
R. T. FOUNTAIN
DIES AT HOME
ROCKY MOUNT, Feb. 21.——
Richard T. Fountain, Rooky
Mount lawyer and former Lieu
tenant Governor and speaker of
the North Carolina House of Rep
resentatives, died at his home
here early today of a heart at
tack. He was 60 years old.
Fountain, generally called by
his nickname, Dick, took a prom
inent part in state politics for
many years. In 1932 he made an
unsuccessful race for Governor,
and four years later he failed in
an effort to unseat Senator Josiah
W. Bailey.
First elected to the Legislature
in 1918, he was re-elected for four
consecutive terms, each time with
out opposition.
His public service included
membership on the Eoarct of Trus
tees of the University of North
Carolina and chairmanship of the
Board of Trustees of the Eastern
Carolina Training School for boys
in Rocky Mount.
He held the Lieutenant Governor
ship from 1929 to 1933 during the
term of Governor O. Max Gard
ner.
The funeral will be held at the
First Presbyterian church at 4
p.m. tomorrow. Burial will be in
Pineview cemetery here.
Surviving are his widow, for
merly Miss Susan Rankin of Gas
tonia, and four children: R. T.
Fountain, Jr., and Mrs. Thomas
Thurston, both of Rocky Mount,
Mrs. Thomas Dill of New Bern,
and Miss Margaret Fountain, a
senior at the University of North
Carolina.
WASHINGTON CALLING
by
MARQUIS CHILDS
PARIS—Rumors which appear to
have been baseless have had Presi
dent Roosevelt paying an official
visit to Paris. If he had driven
down Champs Elysees he would
have been given a demonstration
of fervent approval. Paris would
have lined the streets to shout for
Monsieur le President.
Those who follow trends closely
here say there can be no doubt of
that. But at the same time they
sav that if Roosevelt comes several
months from now, his welcome
may be considerably cooler.
Inside the government there is
deep resentment of the failure to
help France through the bitter win
ter. Whether rightly or wrongly,
the blame is put on America. That;
same resentment, however, has|
only begun to spread to the general
Public. They have not directly
connected their hunger and cold
vith the American policy, nor has
me general public here been aware
of Roosevelt’s resistance to Gen
eral Charles de Gaulle and the ill
oil that grew up between them.
he contest between the two men
ook place for the most part before
oe liberation of France, when al
most no news from the outside
ord came in. The reception of
oe Caulie inside France, together
un tne political skill with which
f maneuvered, made recognition
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America inevitable, regardless of
what anyone thought of him per
sonally.
To a certain degree it is true
that he has used American opposi
tion to solidify his position in this
country. In his speeches de Gaulle
stresses the desperate transporta
tion picture in France — the fact
that under German occupation 47,
000 cars were used to haul fuel for
civilians and even at the worst
period this never fell below 11,000,
while on January 21 of this year it
was only 7,000 cars. He does not
say, however, that Americans have
brought in hundreds of new locomo
tives, which made it possible to
turn others back to the French for
civilian use.
One factor in the French attitude
toward Americans is our bombing
before the liberation. Frenchmen
in the government have told me
that we are getting the blame we
do not deserve and that if we made
a real effort we could get across
to the French people the true story
of bombings and our part in them.
This, incidentally, is likely to
color the attitude throughout Eu
rope. By one of those curious co
incidences always occurring, I
shared a compartment on the
Paris-to-Brussels train with Walter
Farr, whom I had known in Wash
ington as correspondent for the
London Daily Mail. Coming from
eight months in Stockholm, he told
me that many Swedes are now be
ginning to say that American
bombing is responsible for the de
struction of the continent.
That, of course, is an easy out
for Europeans. They forget it was
the Fascist countries that originat
ed the mass bombing technique,
while Americans have made every
effort with precision instruments to
limit it. But for those who have
seen it from the beginning, the ap
praisal of influence of the Ameri
can military might in France is dif
ficult. .
The agreement de Gaulle signed
with General Eisenhower on Aug
ust 27 gave the Allied military lead
ers great powers—greater, perhaps
than the French people have ever
understood. For the military it
was supremely important to have
a stable France at the back of the
fighting forces. For example, a
strike on the railroads of France
simply could not have been toler
ated. Our influence as a result of
military preponderance here has,
therefore, inevitably been on the
side of conservatism, just as the
weight of the Russian influence has
been thrown in different fashion on
the side of order and repression of
the more fiery elements in the un
derground.
To an overwhelming majority of
Frenchmen I should guess that
Roosevelt still stands as the symbol
of liberation. That is why they
would cheer him if he moved down
the broad avenue toward the Arc
de Triomphe.
No matter what our faults of
omission or commission, we always
have a contrast with the German
behavior in our favor. The ordinary
middle-class Frenchmen have told
me of shocking things they saw
during the German occupation,
which Germans made no effort to
conceal. This was particularly
true of brutalities against the Jews,
who won widespread sympathy and
aid from the French.
The de Gaulle government would
hardly have welcomed Roosevelt,
but the people would have. That
may still be true in early summer
but it will depend on whether the
French have had to hitch their
belts even tighter than they are
today.
(Copyright 1945 by United Fea
ture Syndicate, Inc.)
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Barro Colorado Island in the
Canal Zone once was a hilltop
forest of the Panamanian low
lands, but was cut off from the
mainland when the Gatun Dam
flooded the Chagres river.
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