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THE POTTERS HERALD
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF
NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF OPERATITX POTTKBfl
and
EAST LIVERPOOL TRADES ft LABOR «OUN«lE
MUtllahad Every Thursday at East Liverpool, Ohio, by the N. B. of O
P.. owning and operating the Beet Trades Newipaptr Job
Printing Plant in the Stat*.
Itcred at Postoffice, East Liverpool, Ohio, April 20, 1902, second
class matter. Accepted for mailing at Special Rat* of Poutaict
provided for in Section 1108, Act of October 18, 1917, autkorli«*J
August 20, 1918.
Ganeral Office, N. B. O. P. Building, West Sixth St., BELL PHONE 575
F. JEROME McKEEVER Editor and Business Manafjei
0*« Year to Any Part of the United States or Canada J2.00I
President—James M. Duffy, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool, Ohio.
First Vice President—E. L. Wheatley, Room 215, Broad Street National
Bank Building, Trenton, New Jersey.
Second Vice President—Frank Hull, 117 Thompson Avenue, Eaet Liv
erpool, Ohio.
Third Vice President—George Chad wick, 802 Bank Street, East Liver
pool, Ohio.
Fourth Vice President—Charles Zimmer, 1045 Ohio Avenue, Trenton
Fifth Vice President—George Newbon, 847 Melrose Avenue, Trenton
New Jersey.
8ixth Vice President—George Turner, Glenmoor, East Liverpool, Ohio
Seventh Vice President—Charle3 Jordan, 246 E. Michigan Ave., Sebrins
Eighth Vice President—Joshua Chad wick. Grant St., Newell, W. Va
Secretary-Treasurer—John D. McGillivray, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool,
Ohio.
EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers -A. G. DALE, FRED SUTTERL1N, JAMES TURNEfc
Operatives. E. L. WHEATLEY. \VM. E. YOUNG. EDWARD SEYF1EK1
WFSTFRN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufac: C1IAS. F. GOODWIN. M. J. LYNCH, ARTHUR WELL!
Operative*, 'OHN McGILLlVRAY, LOUIS P1ESLOCK. F. HAYNE^
fcASTfiRN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, DEN 1). HAUDKRTY. E. K. KOOS, CHAS. C.OODWIfv
Operatives. E. L. WIIEATLEY, JOHN T. BALDAUF, Jr., WM. OWEN
WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers. BEN D. HAROESTY. E. K. KOOS. CHAS. GOODWIN
Operatives, ALV1N J. BURT, H. R. HAISLOP. JOHN McGILLlVRAY
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers. J. B. McDONALD, H. SPORE, MARGARET PAUK'EK
N. B. of O. P.. JAMES SLAVIN, HUOO MILLER, ROLAND HOKTON
ILL FARES THE LAND
(By Franklyn K. Wolfe)
RATIONAL officialdom is worrying1 about what
to do with a vast quantity of farm products
All the master minds that tackle the problem do
not seem to have thought of a simple expedient
that might solve the problem and bring happines
to millions of people.
There is something like 6,000,000 bales of cot
ton on hand. Then there is something like 91,000,
000 bushels of corn. The government has rruuU
loans on 160,000,000 bushels of corn this year ani
if the price does not go up it may have the whole
amount on hand. What to do with it puzzles the
experts.
May one who is not an expert make a sug
gestion? Why not take that food and fibre and
provide for millions of underfed and poorly clothed
Americans of the class that produced those nec
essities of life? Of course—withholding food from
the hungry and clothing from the needy is holding
to the old tradition of not letting the workers, who
produce all, get any benefits from surplus produc
tion.
Why not put the mighty brains of the experts
to work on the task of working out a way of dis
tributing the surplus of foodstuffs and clothing to
the jxeople of" this country who need them and stop
looking for some way to export cotton and corn
in a way to add to profits for someone? Or is this
too much to expect from a system where "wealth
accumulates and men decay?"
SAFE CONDUCT FOR CHILDREN
"CM'IW would have dared to hope, a month or two
ago, that the Senate would agree unanimously,
and without debate, to the use of American ships
for rescuing children from the British war zom
An insistent public opinion, springing from mill
ions of American homes, has now persuaded both
houses of Congress to do what many political ob
servers believed impossible. The Senate and House
are to be congratulated for rising to a great hu
manitarian challenge.
As matters now stand, however, the children
may yet be left to be bombed and killed because
of one of the technical provisions of the bill. This
is the provision requiring prior assurances of safe
conduct not only from C.erniany but from all the
belligerents named in our proclamations of neu
trality. It has been pointed out that (iermany
might promise safe conduct, but that the govern
ment of Denmark or France or Italy might veto
the scheme on orders from Berlin. Surely the
members of Congress never intended that the bill
should contain a .joker of this kind. It would be a
tragedy if the generous impulses of Congress and
of the American people should be blocked by an
unintentional technicality.
THE FICHT ON DEFENSE HOUSING
CKNATOli WACNEIi'S proposal for appropria-
tion of $.'{(0,000,000 for housing of defense
workers in cities where new housing is found to
lie needed has been apparently eU'ectually blocked
by action of the Senate Appropriations Commit
tee in changing- the proposal to provide only tem
porary housing or barracks on army posts or res
ervations. The committee, in effect, took the posi
tion that workers in defense industries must do
without new housing, if publicly provided, no
matter how urgently needed.
Well-informed Washington observers suspect
that the defeat of the Wagner proposal, which was
vigorously championed by army and navy ollicials,
the American Federation of Labor and others, is
tied up with the underground light that has been
going on in the House of Iiepresentatives the past
year against the United States Housing Author
ity. Representative Albeit M. (Jore of Tennessee,
the leader in this drive, has been touring the
country for months making speeches before Build
ing1 and Loan Leagues, Chambers of Commerce
and the like.
Core was responsible for the circulation last
v.inter in the House of material designed to smear
the slum clearance program of the USI1A on the
ground that in four I'SUA projects in northern
cities when? Negro and white workers normally
live in adjoining buildings that this custom has
been continued in publicly operated projects. The
special point of the (lore attack on the I'SUA pro
gram is the subsidies that the law permits and
which public housing experts say have been prov
en by experience all over the world to be the only
means whereby rents can be gotten down low
enough to enable really poor people to live in new
and decent homes.
Labor has been pointing out that decent hous­
:n
V
ing is vital to effective defense production. If it is
revealed that enemies of public housing have
blocked provision of decent dwellings for defense
workers, there is likely to be an explosion of pub
lie wrath that will surprise certain people and in
terests.
WE LIVE UNDER WAR CONDITIONS
TT is clear that a great many Americans do not
understand the seriousness of the war situa
tion. Many look at the developments as they might
at a play on a stage—it is interesting-, even dra
matic, to watch, "but it won't mean anything to
me."
It will mean something to everyone—AND
VERY SOON.
Take the selective service measure alone. With-
a matter of weeks there will be registration.
But that doesn't end it. Then will come the long
lines of young men GOING TO CAMP FOR A
YEAR.
Nor does that end it. Next year another long
line will go to camp, for a year. And then EVERY
VEAE. We are going to build an enormous army.
And that army may be called into action even
before it is fully trained.
Why? Because nobody can tell where or when
Hitler or one of his partners will strike the spark
that will start the United States to fighting. It
nay be in Alaska, where Russia is only 12 miles
iway. It may be in the Pacific ocean, where Japan's
imbitions call for huge expansion, BY FORCE IF
NECESSARY.
And it may be in Canada, which is at war and
with which we now have the tightest kind of an
alliance.
The United States, by giving aid to Britain, is
actually at war with Germany. And Germany
can, at any hour, declare that the war is a FIGHT
ING WAR.
There are a score of ways in which we can get
into fighting war.
Washington lives today in a war atmosphere,
i'eally and truly. The fact will come home to
Americans more and more as the days pass. And
things happen in a hurry in these days.
American labor must not kid itself about
safety, or peace, or about going along in the same
^ld way. Jt needs to know all there is to know
and to understand that, if democracy is to be de
fended, WAR MAY BE A FIGHTING FACT, even
oefore our defense armament program is much
more than well under way. Burglars don't always
wait for the intended victim to put locks on the
doors and buy a watch dog.
TAX THE TAX EATERS
jyjUNlCIPAL power utilities in Nova Scotia, Can
ada, are to be taxed in the future on the same
basis as private utilities. The reason for that, in
the words of Angus MacDonald, Premier of the
Province, is that "nothing is more unfair than the
way publicly-owned projects are exempt from tax
ation, although they are carrying on the same bus
iness as private concerns." The Province, Premier
MacDonald added, should be receiving something
like $75,000 a year in taxes from tW publicly
owned companies.
That should arouse considerable interest in this
country—particularly among those who have re
garded the Canadian public systems as model en
terprises, and have pointed with pride to the low
rates charged. As all students of the matter know,
these low rates have been the result of a policy of
indirect and direct subsidization. The plants were
largely built with tax money—they have been
given immunity from taxes—and, in many cases,
additional doles of tax money have been necessary
to make up their recurrent deficits.
What is true in Canada is true to even a larger
extent in the United States. Tax immunity for
publicly-owned business enterprises has no eco
nomic justification whatsoever. It is purely and
simply a political device to conceal from the people
the real financial facts about systems. In effect,
all the taxpayers must help pay the bills of the
few who are served by public systems. And the
cost to the general taxpayer, in such large ven
tures as TVA, Bonneville, Grand Coulee, etc., runs
into the hundreds of millions.
A law to tax publicly-owned utilities the same
as private companies has long been agitated in
this country. It has been supported by econo
mists, a large section of the press, responsible
.tatesmen, and thinking citizens. With govern
ment seeking tax revenue as never before, this
vital "reform" should be immediately effected.
File advocates of tax immunity for any govern
ment business enterprise haven't a leg to stand on.
TIME FOR WORK
J^ABOR DAY, 19-10, is past and with it the rec
ord of a year of marked progress for organ
zed labor. Will the year between now and Labor
Day, 19-11, bring equal or even more progress? It
will, if every union worker buckles down to work
NOW, determined to strengthen his organization
and make it a more effective instrument for labor's
advancement than ever before.
That means, among other things, regular at
tendance at union meetings, energetic support of
all union activities, and consistent buying of un
ion label products and services. This kind of sup
port will make for a year of solid progress, which
labor can recall with pride next Labor Day.
SOMETHING TO REMEMBER
"^yilKRE civil or religious rights are destroyed
or threatened the whole structure of democ
racy is weakened and, in time, must crumble,"
Gov. Herbert II. Lehman of New York said the
)ther day. History, especially recent history in
Europe, bears out Mr. Lehman's words, which
direct attention to something every American
should keep in mind, when confronted with de
mands for curtailment or suppression of civil
rights.
Workers in various manufacturing lines, num
bering 93,068, were the largest industrial group
represented in the 278,813 men and women seek
ing employment through the Bureau of Unemploy
ment Compensation on April 1, 1940.
"We, and most of the people in the world, be
lieve still in a'civilization of construction and not
of destruction."—President Roosevelt.
THE POTTERS HERALD
OCQ4VHH4C
Wendell Willkie's acceptance speech
rang the bell neatly. And Harold
Ickes' mere or less official reply to
it missed the boat. That seems to
be the general consensus of the com
mentators and the press.
The response of the professional
politicians to Mr. Willkie's opening
gun could have been, and was, easily
anticipated. The Republican spokes
man naturally said it was one of the
greatest orations in this country's
history. The Democratic spokesmen
aturally said that it was a complete
Hop. But the views of the press are
not of any particular consequence.
What is of immense importance is how
the speech struck the so-called "plain
people" of America—the tens of mil
lions who vote for the candidate they
hink the best, regardless of party af
filiations, and who hold the balance of
political power in the United States.
These are the people who, in 1929,
elected Herbert Hoover by an over
whelming majority—and who, four
ears later, turned him out of office by
an even more overwhelming majority.
They don't write for the papers and
magazines and they don't make
speeches. But they are deeply inter
ested in homes, in jobs, in war and
peace, in fiscal policy—in all of the
problems that confront the country.
And these are the people who next
November will elect Wendell Willkie to
the highest office in the land—or will
give Franklin Roosevelt what no other
President has been given or has ever
ought, a third term in the White
House.
The commentators have been trying
to analyze Willkie's speech in the
'ight of its appeal or lack of appeal
to these average Americans. Some
were disappointed with the delivery
—it was very hot, Mr. Willkie had
been working for weeks at fever pitch
with little rest, and he was obviously
tired. But few found much to dis
appoint them in its content. Even
though he was addressing a Mid-West
udience which was close to 100 per
cut against involvement of any kind
in European affairs, he had the cour
age to say decisively that this
country's destiny is inextricably in
volved with the destiny of the other
democracies, and that Fascism is our
enemy. He had the courage to en
dorse New Deal objectives and laws
which he thinks good, even as he
riticized New Deal administration
and what he regards as its defeatist
philosophy. He affirmed in ringing
words his faith in the American des
tiny. And he brought down the house
when he ofFeredito njeet the President
in open debate^&.-'riy issue. As Col
umnist Raymond Clapper wrote: "He
has placed national interest above
politics in this crisis."
And so it was almost inevitable that
Secretary Ickes' reply should be wide
ly regarded as a dismal failure. Mr.
Ickes called names, and got olF some
amusing wisecracks. He attempted to
pin the "Wall Street" label on Willkie.
But, say the commentators, the feel
ing is strong in Democratic ranks that
no New Deal official, save one, can
make anything resembling an adequate
reply to the colorful Republican can
didate. That one, of course, is the
President. He has thus far kept silent.
And not until he speaks will the
Democratic campaign really start.
In the acceptance speech, Mr. Will
kie had to cover much ground in a
short time. Even so, his stand upon
all the issues is now clear in general.
He will go into the details in future
talks. The serious-minded commenta
tors were extremely pleased with his
position on foreign policy—it is suf
ficiently close to the Roosevelt policy
to make it certain how this country
will stand no matter who wins in No
vember. It would be gravely danger
ous, they feel, had there been so much
lissension on foreign policy as to
split the country wide open, and thus
make adequate defense for security
lifficult or impossible to achieve.
Mr. Willkie will have the support
the great majority of the country's
newspapers this year. A number of
Democratic papers, such as the in
lluential Baltimore Sun (which sup
ported Roosevelt in 1932, and was neu
tral in 193(5, on the grounds that it re
garded neither Roosevelt nor Landon
is fit for the presidency) have swung
over to him. He has proven himself
a man who can arouse real enthusiasm
::nd create great loyalties—which is
something that can be said of ex
tremely few men in either party.
The defense program is beginning
to move at last. Big airplane con
tracts have boon placed, along with
contracts powder, tanks and other
necessities.
It taker, time for American indus
try to change over to war production
after decades in which our security
was never threatened. But once it
gets going, the experts feel, the re
sults will be astonishing. No other
country in the world has anywhere
near our industrial machine—and no
other nation is so potentially power
ful, once it shakes off its lethargy and
gets down to the business of prepar
ing against aggression in dead earn
est.
"LIFERS" GO IN FOR ART
Michigan City, Ind.—Three life
termers and 11 other prisoners in the
State Prison here, are studying art in
what is believed to be the first class
of its kind in the United States. Harry
Engel, head of the fine arts depart
ment of the I'niversity of Indiana is
in charge, visiting the prison once a
month to di.-.-k up on the students'
progress.
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MR. MODESTUS
FRANCE!
IRON AS "FERRO"
WELL-FED AMERICA
MAINTAU DEMOCRACY
France—
Is no longer a Republic—
First appearing after the French
Revolution, in 1792—
Submerged by Napoleon Bonapart
from 1799 to 1815—
Again by French kings from 1824
to 1848—
By another Napoleon from 1862 to
1871—
This French Republic has scintill
ated like a star—
And now, gone out, in 1940.
In the laboratories of the cen
turies—
All human government is still an
experiment—
Because of variations in the basic
human material—
Iron, as plain "ferro/' is durable,
but not flexible—
To make iron tough, to change its
"nature"—
You must add carbon, manganese,
or tungsten—
So "human nature," in presence of
hunger—
Becomes pliable, accepts essential
discipline, "law and order"—
When these are the conditions of
food supply—
While plenty, allowing leisure,
breeds independence—
When "human nature" imposes its
own disciplines—
Resulting from intelligent choice of
orderly life—
From which facts, and others sim
ilar, come variations—
Methods of social control must dif
fer, according to the purpose—
Well-fed America—
Has not been fat, slow, or sluggish—
Food, and leisure, have been used
intelligently—
To rise to higher levels of living
and accomplishment—
But when of America's well-fed mil
lions—
One-third are cheated of their in
heritance—
Denied access, on accustomed terms,
to food and leisure—
Made to feel, also, pinching of un
accustomed social controls—
Then hungers, of body and mind,
alter the balance of component ele
ments—
And "human nature," responding to
change of environment—
Uncovers urges long since subdued
and all-but-forgotten—
Relaxes inhibitions which seemed
part of character—
Opening doors to sly invitations of
"Fifth Columns"—
Producing uncertainties, where con
victions held before—
Releasing motives which may de
cide elections—
All this happened in France—
Hitler's shocks, "disintegrated
democracy"—
the
Fixed ideas, or greedy senators,
willing to appease—
Of too-old generals, trusting Mag
inot lines uncompleted—
Of treachery in rank-and-file, chok
ing nation's production—
France failed to invent, and then
apply-
New disciplines demanded by new
machines, in Germany and elsewhere—
To maintain democracy—
America's desciplines must be flex
ible—
Allowing elbow room for free
thinking, speaking, press, and move
ment—
But to face approaching ruthless
force—
Democracy must know how to re
vert to ruthlessness—
Must be able to be hard, as well as
flexible—
While maintaining freedom's privi
leges for our own—
Apply all modern techniques of
stiff censorship to alien motives—
So that bulwarks of liberty shall
not become—
Handy barricades for sly spies and
tricky traitors—
Meanwhile: keep hunger from Amer
ican cupboards.
3 $ "8'
WISDOM
Public money ought to be touch
ed with the most scrupulous con
scientiousness of honor. It is not
the produce of riches only, but of
the hard earnings of labor and
poverty. It is drawn even from the
bitterness of want and misery.
Not a beggar passes, or perishes
in the streets, whose mite is not
in that mass.—Thomas Paine.
Hearst Pays $28,500
For Firing Unionists
Washington, D. C.—The National
Labor Relations Roard approved the
offer of Hearst Publications, Inc., of
San Francisco, to pay .$28,500 to five
employes of the circulation depart
ment of the Los Angeles Examiner
found to have been discriminated
discharged because of union activi
ties." Heart Publications also agreed
to post notices that it will not dis
courage membership or activity in the
A. F. of L. Newspaper Circulators,
Wholesale Distributors and Miscel
laneous Employes Union No. 21C66.
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS
iJMJI
The exact fate of the labor move
ment in Norway is not known, but
judging by Nazi tactics in other con
quered countries the Norwegian unions
have been destroyed or made mere
puppets of the Nazi regime. Before
the German invasion, highly favor
able conditions for labor prevailed in
Norway.
By an act of 1933 in Norway, a
court was created to which could be
referred questions of boycott, and in
a case where no agreement could be
reached, there was a national medi
ator waiting to offer his advice and
settle disputes. Norwegian employ
ers, as well as their employes, had
a union. It was called the Employ
ers' Federation, according to a pact
made in 1935, in respect of all agree
ments.
Norwegian labor history dates back
to the first trade union agreement,
that of compositors, in 1882. During
the 1890's, twelve national unions
were established, and despite severe
struggles which menaced the future
of collective bargaining, by 1920 the
Federation of Unions had a member
ship of 148,500. The percentage of
organization in crafts and industries
rose until, by 1938, Norway, with its
thirty-three national unions, stood
probably foremost in Europe in that
respect.
Since 1921, the Federation of Unions
has controlled its own bank, and the
benefits it procured for its members
pointed towards social as well as econ
omic betterment.
A fortnight's holiday with pay had
been granted most industrial workers
annually since 1937, and the holiday
resorts which the various unions main
tained far from the cities offered
pleasant playgrounds for the precious
two weeks of annual freedom.
Workers' educational and sports as
sociations made great progress. Their
aim was the development for the
worker of a sound body, working at
its highest efficiency, and housing an
informed and intellectually curious
mind.
Such fair labor conditions can be
achieved only in a democracy and can
only be restored in a Norway free of
totalitarian control.
-K
Canadian labor is fearful of re
strictions upon unions and lowering
of standards of wages and hours im
posed by a war administration. Labor
is not in a favorable position to op
pose such restrictions because Ca
nadian labor organizations are split
four ways. In addition to the split
between the American Federation of
Labor and the Congress of Industrial
Organizations in Canada, two other
labor organizations are hindrances to
a united front.
Supression of labor unions is con
sidered not in the picture it is not a
part of England or Canadian tradi
tions. But severe restrictions paral
leling the act imposed by Parliament
on Great Britain are thought possible.
The broadening scope of labor union
activity is illustrated by the proposal
of President David Dubinsky of the
International Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union to make the United States,
and particularly New York, the style
center of the world. The union's in
terest is in more work and employment
resulting from this proposal. So Du
binsky will support studies set up for
the purpose of investigating the pos
sibilities of the plan, provided there
is no "chiseling" on labor.
'I' 1 'I' 'I' 'I'
WHAT NEXT?
An air-conditioned bed has
been invented by Dr. F. K. Kir
sten, aeronautical engineer at the
University of Washington. Ac
cording to the inventor, the bed
is an open-top, sheet-metal box,
over which is stretched a fabric
sufficiently air tight to form a
good cuHltion when the box is filled
with compressed air (cool in .Sum
mer, warm in Winter), but porous
enough to permit a slow seepage
of the air up and around the
sleeper.
Time To Check On Your
Social Security Account
To social security account-holders:
.It you would like to know the amount
of wages credited to your Social Se
curity Account, the Social Security
Board will send you a statement if you
ask for it.
As your old-age insurance benefits,
and benefits for your family also, de
depend upon the amount of your wage
credits, the Social Security Board
provides opportunity for a check-up
every year.
It is a chance to make sure all your
wages on covered jobs have been re
ported to the Government and duly
credited to you. If there has been a
mistake anywhere, now is the time to
find out and ask for correction.
For your convenience in making the
request, the Board furnishes postcards
which you can get from any Social
Security Board field office. If there
is no such office in your locality, ask
your post office for the address pf the
nearest one.
The card is already addressed and
needs only a one-cent stamp but if
you prefer you can put in it a sealed
envelope, under a three-cent stamp.
In any case, the reply will come to
you in a sealed envelope.
Thursday, September 5, 1940
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hatchet Out
The Truth
DEATH OF TROTSKY
o NO TEARS SHED
DICTATORS LEAVE GHOSTS
VALUES MAINTAINED
So many other writers have said
their say about the death of Leon
Trotsky that perhaps enough has been
said.
However, perhaps there is one more
word—and here it is.
Until there is positive proof to
the contrary, those who follow
such matters will believe that
Trotsky was murdered at the com
mand of Boss Stalin's OGPU, the
soviet secret service which has
done to death so many enemies
of the dictatorship.
Stalin's OGPU has committed mur
ders in many foreign lands. There
have been OGPU murders in the
United States, in France and in Italy,
to name some of the scenes of po
litical crime chargeable to Bolshevik
Russia.
The striking thing for Americans to
think about is this: If Stalin's secret
agents can murder Trotsky in Mexico,
they can murder his enemies in the
United States. And if Stalin's secret
machine can do it, so can Hitler's ma
chine.
We shed no tears over Trotsky. He
used the weapons that followed him
into exile and hunted him to death.
He was THE international revolution
ist.
The main difference between Trot
sky and Stalin was the better political
trickster in Russia he won while
Trotsky lost.
So there is no reason for any
gnashing of teeth on that score.
The point to the whole thing is
that there is an awesome and fear
some secret political police force,
commanded by one man, that does not
hesitate to reach to any point on earth
to do to death enemies of that one
man and his regime.
New York, Chicago, Omaha and San
Francisco may be as well the scene
of crime for Stalin as Mexico City or
Paris or Rome.
If Stalin deems an enemy in the
United States sufficiently menacing—
as has been the case—the murder will
be ordered and once a murder is or
dered the order stands until the mur
der is done.
There have been strong indications
in the past that Mussolini has used
HIS secret political police to visit ven
geance upon enemies in the United
States.
Neither Stalin nor Hitler nor
Mussolini are at all soft hearted when
it comes to making way with oppon
ents. All have ordered their blood
purges, their horrible holocausts of
murder.
As each of these dictators march
down the avenues of history they leave
in their wage a retinue of ghosts, the
disemboweled spirits of those done to
death because, for one reason or an
other, they ran afoul of the dictator's
wishes.
Be this a form of sadism, or the
result of a peculiar political expedi
ency that accompanies the institution
of dictatorship, the lesson is equally
clear.
There must come a time when, from
within or without, such murderous
government of man must cease.
No other form of government mur
ders so freely no other form pursues
its victims into foreign lands and re
gards one scene as good as another
for a killing.
It may well be said that the mor
ality of capitalist nations is subject
to strange lapses and inconsistencies.
But, be that as it may, there IS a
morality in capitalist, or democratic
nations.
Whatever may be its inconsistencies,
there is a code that is dependable.
There are things that just are not
done—and IF done bring swift and
sure punishment.
There ARE values that are main
tained. There IS law that protects
against violence from the government.
That laws are broken does not change
the fact that the laws exist and that
infraction is punished.
The mad dog philosophy, the gang
ster philosophy (to dignify it over
much) is OUTLAWED by democracy,
forever.
Autocracy and democracy are more
incompatible than oil and water, than
fire and powder.
Some day, now or later, the issue
of survivorship will he drawn and it
MUST BE MET!—CMW.
FAITHFUL TO JOB
Albany, N. Y.—Elmer Beaumont,
15, a carrier for the Albany Knicker
bocker News, was tossed over the
handle bars of his bicycle when he
rounded a curve and ran into deep
sand while delivering his route. His
arm was broken, but he climbed back
on his bike and finished his route with
one arm hanging helplessly. After
two days of recuperation, he was back
on his route with his arm in splints.
COUNTRY SLUMS WORSE
Washington, D. C.—A report just
completed by Department of Agricul
ture experts say that slum housing
is worse in the country than in the
cities nearly 2,000,000 farm families
live in houses worth less than $500.
One-third of all farm families, the re
port revealed, have an average annual
income of less than $500, including
all the produce they grow for them
selves.