Berlin High School - Mascoutin Yearbook (Berlin, WI)

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Editorial DEDICATION In order to give credit to the people who are furthering freedom of the press, we the students of Berlin High, dedicate our annual, the Mascoutin, to them. Without these citizens our education would be limited. With freedom of the press, — local, state, national, and inter- national, — news has been available to all people. The newspaper contains news, advertisements, editorials, and other matters of public interest. It is is a publication issued daily or at less frequent intervals for public circulation. The newspaper has spread to all the corners of the earth, within the grasp of all, through the invention of telephone, telegraph, and wireless. Freedom of the press which involves the right of every citizen to print what he chooses is a comparatively recent phenomenom in most countries. In America, ever since the Zenger trail in colonial times, freedom of the press has been constant except in time of war and emergency. In most European countries, especially those under dic- tatorship, the freedom of the press is admittedly void. It is our duty as future citizens of the United States to preserve this hard-won free- dom.