Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-15
Newspapers
Foes Found
By Senator
They Would Substitute
Handouts, BROOKE Says

4 significant address, "The
Essentially of Free Press"
lC0s dclircrcd iH the Sc10tc last
Ucck by Senator &. WdyldHd
Brooks Of Illinois. The Times is
TcpriBtug me tcrt Of the speech
ta tiCo instruments, Of ichich this
IS the first:
EARLY in this war. the Presi-
H dent of the United States
formulated two announcements
AS the laudable detectives for
which we are fighting and dy-
ing, First, the Four Freedoms.
and second, the tlantic
Charter.
There are some who fear that
there are people in this country
both in and outside of our gov
eminent service who would pull
the flag of the Atlantic Charter
so high that it would superSede
our Constitution. and there are
those who would elevate the
banner of the Four Freedoms 10
such an extent that we would
lose sight of our own Bill Of
Rights.
When you engage in war YOU
engage TO win and war follows
the rule of necessity-you do
things that are necessary to
win. But we must be sure that IN
all OF this unprecedented war
effort we follow the rules laid
down in the Constitution and
continue TO guard the human
protection provided for in our
Bill or Rights.
IT is SIGNIFICANT that the
L founding fathers included in
the rights 10 be demanded for
the people the following Ian
guage: Congress shall make no
law abridging the freedom
of the Press"
The precious rights of individ-
ual men and the fundamental
institution of our representa-
tive form of government have
been fostered and defended by
the free press of America more
than by any other element of
our national life, and as long
as we remain free men and are
willing to fight, suffer and to die
% individually to preserve a free
form of government, we must
recognize no emergency as being
so great as to necessitate the
destruction or nnece SSary
abridgement of the free press of
America.
DECENT orders and counter
~ orders issued in connection
with the amounts of paper 10 be
used by newspapers arrest at
tention and cause concern re-
garding what seem to be related
events going back over number
Of years.
Last spring when the Office
of Defense Transportation is
sued its early orders restricting
the use of rubber-tir vehicles
for the laudable purpose of saw
ing rubber, no mention was
made in these original orders of
newspapers specifically. No
recognition was given to their
Importance as an essential in
dustry.
The drastic restrictions origin
ally contemplated would have
reduced the press of America 10
one edition a day, which would
have resulted in putting many
newspapers out of business.
After long periods Of nego-
tiations, notifications were
adopted, resulting in 40 per
cent reduction in the mileage
OF newspaper trucks.
Not only were the conStitu-
tional guarantees of the press
overlooked, but their Importance
to the national welfare was like
wise overlooked and ignored. 1t
might be pointed out here that
in our modern civilization, the
right to distribute the news is
a part of the right TO print 1T.
THE freedom of the press can
L be abridged in many ways
by DENYING access to the news
denying the facilities TO print
or the facilities TO distribute the
printed word 10 the DeODle bV