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THE POTTERS HERALD
OFFICIAL JOI RNAL OF
THE NATIONAL BKOTHKKHOOD OF Ol'KRATIVE POTTERS
and
EAST LIVERPOOL TRADKS & LABOR COUNCIL
Published every Thursday at Ea.-t Liverpool, Ohio by the N. B. of O. P.
owning and operating the Best Trades Newspaper and Job Printing
Plant in the State.
Entered at Po.-toffice, East Liverpool, Ohio, April 20, 1902, as second
class matter. Accepted for mailing at Special Kate of Postagi
provided for in Section 1108, Act of October 13, 1917, authorized
Auguat 20, 191S.
General Office, N. B. of O. P. Building, W. 6th St., BF.LL PHONE 51
F, JEROME McKEEVER. Editor and Business Manage!
(tea Year to Any Part of the United States or Canada.... $2.0(
President—James M. Duffy, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool, Ohio.
First Vice President—E. L. Wheatley, Room 215, Broad Street National
Rank Huildingr, Trenton, New Jersey.
Second Vice: President—Frank Hull, 117 Thompson Avenue, East Liv
er|MVil, Ohio.
Third Vice President—George Chadwick, 802 Bank Street, East Liver
pool, Ohio.
Fourth Vice President—Charles Zimmer, 1045 Ohio Avenue, Trenton
Fifth V ice President—George Newbon, 847 Melrose Avenue, Trentoi)|
New Jersey.
Sixth Vice President—George Turner, Glonmoor, East Liverpool, Ohio
Seventh Vice President—Charles Jordan, 245 East Michigan Aveaue,
Eighth Vice President—Joshua Chadwick, Grant Street, Newell, W. Va.
Secretary-Treasurer—John D. McGillivray, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool,
Ohio.
EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers A. C. DALE, FRED SUTTER LIN, JAMES TURNEK
Operatives. E. L. WHEATLEY, WM. E. YOUNG, EDWARD SEYFIERI
WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers. CHAS. F. GOODWIN, M. J. LYNCH, ARTHUR WELL?
Operatives, JOHN McGILLIVRAY. LOUIS P1ESLOCK, F. HAYNE.'
EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, BEN D. HARDEHTY. E. K. KOOS. CHAS. GOODWIN
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY. JOHN T. HALDAUF, Jr., WM. OWEN
WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, HEN 1). HARDESTY. E. K. KOOS, CHAS. GOODWIN
Operatives. ALVIN J. BURT, H. R. IIAISLOP. JOHN McGILLIVRAY
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, J. B. McDONALI), H. SPORE, MARGARET PARKEIf
N. B. of O. P.. JAMES SLAVIN, HUGO MILLER, ROLAND HORTON
THK TRUTH ABOUT DEFENSE
T^HE American people need to be informed
frankly concerning the progress or lack of
progress of the defense program. They need this
information for the sake of the program itself.
Only through knowledge of where the gaps and
bottlenecks and snags exist can their full ell'orts
and cooperation he enlisted to end them.
The country is not today getting a full and
clear picture of our defense progress. What it is
getting is secrecy broken by some optimistic
statements and some warnings not to expect ton
much. At a few points the veil is lifted, while
at others efforts are being made toward still
stricter censorship of the news.
In certain directions secrecy is obviously need
ed. No one would expect or want our forces to
make known the details of an advanced bomb
sight or mine or airplane detector. And it is not
always easy to draw the line between what should
be secret and what public. It may be, for ex
ample, that it is undesirable to reveal exactly how
many airplanes we have of each type on hand or
being currently delivered. A balance 'must be
achieved between the knowledge which one's own
people ought to have for their own guidance, and
knowledge potentially useful to a possible enemy,
which that enemy's agents have presumably not
been able to obtain for themselves.
The mistake most frequently made by mili
tary organizations, however, is not to give the
enemy too much information but to keep their
own people too much in the dark. The military
mind seldom has great respect for lay opinion
it believes that public "interference" is a neces
sary nuisance to be reduced to the greatest extent
possible. Hut the history of warfare shows time
and time again occasions when public opinion
forced reforms on the military mind that would
otherwise have been made too late or not at all.
In the World War it was the campaign in the
Northclill'e press that led to the organization of
the munition supply and the provision of adequate
quantities of high explosive .shells. The same
campaign contributed to the formation of the
Coalition Minstry. The Northclill'e press must
also be given substantial credit for its insistence
on the importance of airplane production at that
time. Yet Northclill'e had to light the official
censors, who would not allow him to print the
stories his newspapers were receiving from the
front on the ammunition shortage of the British
forces there. In the present war, unfortunately,
there was no Northclill'e in France: the French
people had implicit faith in their military leaders
and in the strength of their defenses but tlu
French military leaders were too wedded to out
moded methods of warfare to provide the neces
sary tanks and airplanes or even to agitate for
them with sufficient vigor. If the real facts had
been known to the French public, reforms might
have been forced in time.
As long as this country remains even in a tech
nical state of peace, certainly its course regarding
the publicity to be given to defense progress is
reasonably clear. It ought to publish at regulai
intervals, probably each month, fairly compre
hensive statements of the progress of the defense
program. When new ships an commissioned, the
country should learn of them. There should be a
monthly statement of our military airplane pro
duction, with at least enough analysis to be mean
ingful. Actual combat planes, for example, should
be separated from mere training planes perhaps
bombers should be differentiated from pursuit
planes. There should certainly be no elfort to
suppress at one point information that has al
ready been made public at another. The Ameri
can people have a right to know what theii
country has to fight with. If the country is
strong, it does little harm for a potential enemy
to know it. If the country is weak at some point,
the authorities will naturally endeavor to conceal
this weakness. But the worst thing that could
possibly happen would be to conceal this weakness
from their own people while failing to conceal it
from an enemy. If the public knows where oui
weaknesses are, it can be counted on to throw its
energies into ending them.
WHAT K. A. F. THINKS 01 I S. PLANES
\yilAT does the It. A. F. think of the planes
America builds for them? Quentin lieynolds
wanted to find out for Collier's, so he went right
to Lord Beaverbrook in England and asked. His
answer, as quoted in the Collier's article, was:
"They are magnificent aircraft. Come and look
at them. Talk to the pilots. Fly in them your-'
rpilE
self. Go to the factories where they are assembled
and tested."
Mr. Reynolds did. And here
is a
cerpt of the favorable report he obtained an all
ides:
"Then there is the Curtiss P-40, which will
soon be as well known in England as the Spitfire.
It is known as the Tomahawk. It is a pretty
iass somewhat on the lines of the Spitfire. It has
long nose and it is a sleek, imperious-looking
reature. The Tomahawk has the liquid-cooled
Allison motor. It is no secret among members of
he aircraft industry that there were several
'bugs' in the Allison. One by one they have been
eliminated. Today the Allison ranks with the
Merlin, which has always been considered the best
iquid-cooled motor in the world. The success of
the Spitfires and Hurricanes proves that point.
"I watched a test pilot put a new Tomahawk
through its paces. He did something I've never
seen done with a Hurricane or a Spitfire—he
climbed the Tomahawk almost vertically.
'How do I like it?' the pilot exploded when he
had landed. 'How could anyone fail to like it?
It's a grand airplane. I've flown all of the fighter
lircraft and in combat I'd rather have this than
any. It is more maneuverable than a Spitfire. It
isn't quite as fast as a Spitfire but what is?'
"American aircraft good only for training?
England wishes she had five times as many as she
has."
BOTH COMING AND GOING
/^EKMAN foreign trade promotion methods,
when as mixed with political motives as they
ire today, enable Germany to profit either way.
Yugolsavia, like most of Southeastern Europe, had
aken advantage of the markets Germany offered
her agricultural products, only to find like the rest
that her apparently profitable sales merely result
ed in Germany running heavily into her debt.
Other countries, in the effort to obtain payment of
the sums due them, accepted either unwanted
products, like the much-publicized aspirin, camera
and harmonica shipments or else other equally
unprofitable settlements. Yugoslavia held out
against such payment, and instead bought Ger
man guns, tanks, machinery, etc. Although this
reversed the balance, it did not make her position
my more enviable. Now she is reported to be in
lebt to Germany to the extent of one billion din-j
trs.
Does this permit her to force Germany in her
Uirn to take superfluous Yugoslav products? Not
it all. Germany has rather exerted increasing
pressure on Yugoslavia to compel her to accept
less favorable foreign exchange rates, and other
wise to strengthen the Gentian hold on that
country. Germany thus profits both coming and
going, whether she is in debt or whether she is
owed. It is a nice example of heads I win and
tails you lose.
GIVE 'EM AN INCH AND—
(From the Trades Unionist, Washington, D. C.)
IJECAUSE this nation has reached the conclusion
that we can not afford to permit Britain to be
defeated, our British friends appear willing to
dump the whole war in our laps.
We are going "all out" to help them, and this
effort of ours, which includes just about every
thing except sending our men over there, leads to
the belief that instead of helping Britain to fight
its own war we are permitting them to fight our
war.
And from that premise Britons seem to think
we should take off their hands all responsibility,
send them men, money and material, and push
Hitler back into Prussia.
Our little item is ignored by the wily Briton,
and that is the filet that '20 years ago we attempt
ed to make future wars impossible and were de
feated by European statesmen, including British
diplomats, and also that the present plight of
Britain is the result of the dumbness of the em
pire's diplomats in refusing to recognize the men
ace of Hitler in his early days in fact he was
aided by British money to rise to power.
We are ready to give all the help we can, but,
please, let's keep the record straight and not get
he shoe 011 the wrong foot.
A BUSINESS FORECAST
WHAT are the prospects for industry as the
defense program gathers headway? Probably
the peak of activity has already been reached in
such work as the construction of barracks. Will
the production of war goods w holly take the place
of th e cessation of work on new war goods fac
tories, or do we face a slump when the present
expansion of industrial facilities is completed?
A current study in the Agriculture Depart
ment's monthly Demand and Price Situation at
tempts to answer the question. The crux of the
problem is whether the annual expenditures in
volved in operating the new plants will exceed
those incurred in building them. On the basis of
various data the study estimates that operating
expenditures in general will probably exceed by
as much as 50 per cent construction costs over
a corresponding time. Even allowing for off
setting factors, the passing of the defense effort
from the preparatory to the production stage may
therefore result not in diminished but rather in
further expansion of industrial activity as a
whole. The effect of this added stimulus on the
eventual post-war readjustment problem is, of
course, not to be overlooked.
DOUBTFUL POLICY CHANGE
State Department lifts the "moral embargo"
against shipment of war planes and plane
equipment to Soviet Russia. Maybe this is a
necessary move, and maybe it will improve4 Rus
sia's attitude4 toward the United States and Britain
although, if we hadn't sworn off name-callin
we'd be tempted to say it looks a little like ap
peasement. But we don't trust Stalin, and lifting
th( "moral embargo" doesn't wash the blood of
Finland off his hands. As to war planes, Russia
probably won't get many, our full output being
pretty well ticketed for our own and Britain's
needs. We trust the State Department will keep
a constant eve 011 this reinstated customer, making
certain that no planes, no machine tools, no cop
per or other war materials sold to Russia will find
they way into the hands of Hitler.—The Wash
ington Daily News.
typical ex­
THE POTTERS HERALD
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Happenings That Affect the Dinner
Pails, Dividend Checks and Tax
Bills of Every Individual. National
and International Problems Insep
arable from Local Welfare.
It is becoming clear that the un
limited aid for England bill is not go
ing through with the blinding speed
the Administration hoped for. On the
23rd of January, one Senate leader
said he expected a final vote within
^50 days, which indicates the way the
wind blows. The opponents of the bill
are grimly determined to fight it to a
finish—and they have picked up a
number of adherents who, while they
favor sections of the measure, and
are as pro-British as anyone else,
were stunned by the tremendous pow
ers, it gives the President.
Basis of opposition to the bill is
pretty well established. First, its op
ponents seized eagerly on Secretary
Stimson's observation that he expected
a crisis in the war within 60 to 90
days. They pointed out that even if
the bill were passed at once, there
could be no significant increase in our
aid to England in so short a time.
Therefore, they said in effect, "Why
all the hurry?"
Second, a major point has been
made of the apparent fact that the
bill would give the head of this gov
ernment, which is not at war, far
greater powers than are possessed by
the head of the British government,
which is at war. Mr. Churchill is di
rectly accountable to Parliament for
every act—under the English system,
he is a member of the House of Com
mons and must submit to interroga
tion by any other member. He is not
plected for a specific term, and could
be turned out of office inside 24 hours
the House of Commons, by a simple
majority, refused to endorse some
measure or policy he advocated.
Third, it is argued that the bill
would revolutionize our system of
government, by, in effect, taking the
power to make war out of the hands
rf Congress, where it is specifically
placed by the Constitution, and giving
it to the Executive.
Fourth, some are raising the argu
ment that if England should fall, the
arms and materials and other im
plements of war we would give her
could be turned against us—that our
troops might have to fight airplanes
ind guns and warships made in Amer
ican yards and factories. It is stress
ed that all gifts and loans to England
would be made only under a definite
agreement that they would never be
turned over to-ajcyj tier power, but the
bill's opponents dbn\ think such guar
antees would be worth much.
Fifth, the fact that the bill as now
drawn would enable the President to
actually give England all or part of
our Navy, if he so decided, is being
made a big fighting point. Adminis
tration spokesmen, including the Pres
ident, have said that nothing of that
sort is anticipated, and that the ques
tion of using American naval vessels
to convey British merchant shipping
something Britain obviously wants
—has not been considered. But Ad
ministration men, testifying for the
bill, have opposed a proposed clause
which would not permit the gift or
loan of ships to England without
specific Congressional approval.
There are arguments on the other
side of all these points, and they are
well known—the President and those
who think the way he does, have been
making them for a long time. There
seems to be little common ground be
tween the measure's more extreme de
fenders and opponents. Political par
tisanship is playing almost no part
in the fight. There is little question
tin1 absolute sincerity of leaders of
both sides to the controversy.
Best guess at this time is that there
is small likelihood of the bill passing
without restricting amendments. Also
there is less likelihood of its being de
feated as a whole. The bill's oppon
ents have said that they will not stoop
to the filibuster, but will battle the
issue out on iU merits. This may be
the biggest fight since the proposal to
increase the size of the 'Supreme
Court.
"Unprecedented production small
profits." That, in four words, is as
good a forecast as any of the indus
trial future.
A tremendous expansion of pro
duction, carrying us far beyond the
102!) level, is of course inevitable
when unlimited billions are to be spent
for arms. And small profits seem
equally inevitable, in the light of gov
ernment controls, labor costs, high ex
isting taxes and the certain prospect
of new and increased taxes.
Unemployment is said to be going
down rapidly. The defense drive calls
for workers v.ho are unskilled and
semi-skilled as well as skilled. In some
highly skilled trades, such as machine
tool work, then* is a definite shortage
of capable men.
Drastic changes in our normal econ
omy are anticipated soon. For in
stance, don't he surprised if automo
bile production is cut by a third or
more before the year ends. Motor
facilities are going to be needed to a
con stantly increasing extent for arms
purposes. That is also true of fac
kories making heavy household equip
ment—refrigerators, etc.
Increases in the cost of heavy goods
are expected. But there is no in
flationary trend. The general cost of
living index, which deals with the
basic necessities, is showing no par
ticular change ut the moment.
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MR. MODESTUS
OCTOPUS HELPLESS
ON DRY LAND
HOLDING COMPANIES
VULNERABLE
TO HONEST ATTACK
An octopus—
Is a helpless thing—
When tossed up by the waves onto
the beach—
Out of its natural element, exposed
to air and sunlight—
Eight tentacles, formidable, each
thrice the body's length—
Armed with 100 vacuum cups, com
bined fingers, hands, arms—
Each cup a mouth, as well as a
closing fist—
Two dull eyes, in connecting neck,
registering light and shade—
Huge oval sack, all openings at the
mouth—
If met in the water, where lubri
cation is from the sea—
It can give battle to anything but
shark and barracuda—
Python, multiplied by eight, plus
sucking mouths which paralyze—
Extractor of substance from other
living creatures—
With brains strung all through
those gripping arms and sucking
cups—
Perfect holding company image—
That octopusic corporation para
site—
Which operates under dusk of law,
names, privileges—
Feeding 011 all it touches, giving out
nothing—
Combining in one sack its income
from other useful bodies—
Its eyesight, derived from lawyers'
cunning—
Discerns lights and shades of legal
things—
While its component suckers seek
life juices of victims—
Feeding profits from these into the
holding sack.
But this legal octopus is also help
less—
When dragged into sunlight, by
public indignation—
Actions, taken on lawyers' counsel—
Which seemed once clever to a Hop
son—
In full glare of public gaze are seen
for what they are—
As functions of a sucking vampire
on the public weal—
Which cannot bear light of day, nor
heat of public scorn—
Its subtle tricks, and intricate ma
chinations—
All suddenly foolish, futile, un
reason, and mere crime—
Condemning their creator to a
felon's cell—
Dethroned from power and arro
gance.
Corporations have no existence
apart from public law—
To call them persons, give them per
sonal perquisites—
Crown them with privilege, endow
ed with human powers—
Contradicts the social purpose of
laws which create them—
Logical trend of private corpor
ations in anti-social—
Feeding on the. body politic and the
general welfare—
Deep sea divers carry knives—
Slash arms of octopuses from the
central sack—
Whereupon the menacing monster,
which seemed a personality—
Becomes mere thing, drifting off in
pieces, helpless—•
Corporation lawyers insist their
pets are persons—
But corporations are only legal
fictions, minus personality—
Creatures of the law, imaginations
of courts and counsel—
Have clothed them with superhuman
power and prestige—
(iiven these filmy fictions stings
and tentacles—
When stripped of these fictitious
perquisites—
Corporation holding companies are
seen for what they are—
Mere creatures of imaginings, vul
nerable to honest attack—
Falling apart with weight of their
own parasitic apparatus—
When exposed to common knowl
edge of their functions.
LABOR PARTY PLANS
BRITISH AID DRIVE
New York City (ILNS).—Plat is for
an active drive to raise funds for
British war relief work were made at
a meeting of •the American Labor
party. The campaign will he formally
inaugurated at a big mass meeting.
The campaign will center on efforts
to raise money for mobile canteen to
be sent to England and for other re
lief needs of the civilian population of
bombed cities. The committee voted
the drive following endorsement of
the lease-lend bill.
Several Labor party units, particu
larly in Bronx borough, are working
for British relief and are collecting
clothing and other articles, which are
being forwarded through the British
Relief Society.
At the committee meeting it was
urged that American labor should do
all in its power to help Britain. Com
mittee members said that a Nazi vic
tory might'endanger gains that labor
has made here in the last few dec
ades and that, therefore, the Ameri
can Labor party, as such, has a vital
interest in German defeat.
i COMMENT ON WORLD
I EVENTS I
The English often show surprising
patience but there's a limit to all
things, as indicated by their recent
suppression of the Communist Daily
Worker of London and a small weekly
Communist paper on the ground they
were obstructing Britain's war effort
by deliberately promoting a spirit of
defeatism.
Herbert Morrison, labor leader and
Home Secretary, told Parliament that
attention of the Daily Worker had
been called to provisions of the de
fense regulations and the hope was
expressed that the paper would so
conduct itself as to prevent the neces
sity of action.
"That hope was not realized and
after careful consideration the gov
ernment has decided it would not be
justifiable to allow these newspapers
to continue any longer," Morrison
said.
Alfred Duff Cooper, Minister of In
formation, told the press that the sup
pression of the Communist papers was
entirely a war measure resulting from
their anti-war activity. Referring to
the Daily Worker, he said:
"In no other country would such a
newspaper have been allowed to con
tinue for so long in war time."
Cooper's statement could hardly
have been more conservative. As a
matter of fact, most of the demo
cratic nations would probably act
much sooner than Britain did, if con
fronted by a similar case. Of course,
in the totalitarian nations, papers that
obstructed war efforts would be lucky
if they made a single appearance.
One issue devoted to a policy of de
featism would bring the concentration
camp or worse for the editors.
But the British, long devoted to
principles of free speech and free
press, permitted the Communist sheets
for many months to follow a policy
calculated to "weaken the will of the
people," in the words of Home Secre
tary Morrison.
The British even permitted the
Daily Worker its day in Parliament
and opponents of the government
freely denounced the suppression of
the paper. All had a chance to talk,
including the single Communist mem
ber. At the end of the debate, the
government action was approved by
a vote of 297 to 11.
Morrison, while deploring the neces
sity of squelching the Daily Worker
took full responsibility and said:
"The Communist party is the last
party 011 earth to claim the privilege
of democratic government."
Democracy for the Communists and
their friends is an "outworn bourgeois
creed of the nineteenth century," he
added, again explaining that th** Daily
Worker had been warned months ago.
The whole episode showed British
hesitation to invoke autocratic meth
ods, even in the fact of desperate
peril, and indicates they must have
become convinced that action against
the Communist papers was absolutely
necessary under the circumstances.
W A N E
Glass makers in St. Helens,
England, announce they have per
fected a means of welding metal
to glass. The new process h.iK
been used for making electric
heaters by spraying aluminum in
the form of wire in a zigzag pat
tern on specially heated glass. An
electric current is then passed
through the long path so formed.
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I W I S O
I tolerate with the utmost lati
tude the rights of others to differ
with me in opinions, without im
puting to them criminality.
—Thomas Jefferson.
BEST SPRING BUILDING SEASON
IN 1$ YEARS SEEN BY THE I HA
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Sharp
gains in new home construction activ
ity under the FHA program during
recent weeks are probably foreshadow
ing the largest spring building season
within the past 13 years, Federal
Housing Administrator Abner H. Fer
guson announced.
In the three weeks ended January
25, new home construction started un
der FHA inspection showed an expan
sion of 6X per cent over the compar
able period of last year. At the same
time, applications for FHA mortgage
insurance on new homes to be built
under its inspection have been 35 per
cent larger than a year ago.
Although there is usually a winter
let-down in building activity, an aver
age of between 450 and 500 small
homes were started each working day
under FHA inspection in the three
weeks. The total for the period, in
cluding several hundred new small
homes being financed under Title I of
the National Housing Act, was 7,768
as compared with 4,630 in the cor
responding weeks of HMO.
Applications for FHA mortgage in
surance 011 new small homes to be
financed under Section 203 of the Act,
which affords a reliable barometer of
future building activity have been
coming in at the rate of almost 600
each working day.
Abk for Union Labeled Merchandise.
Thursday, February 6,1941
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hatchet Out
The Truth
MUSSOLINI'S THREATS
"MADE IN BERLIN"
DON'T SCARE BRITISH
OR AMERICANS
It has been said that a Revolution
is no gentleman.
It may well be said that war is no
laughing matter.
But there is some humor to be
gleaned when one scans his morning
newspaper and sees the picture of
Mussolini whipped to a frazzle in Al
bania and in Africa, then turns to
II Duce's morning warning to the
United States.
Of course Mussolini's threats are all
plainly labelled "Made in Berlin" but
it only adds to the grim humor of
the situation.
In Albania mountain Greek meets
valley Greek and they show the
Italian troops that what they had been
told was just a case of walking over
the feeble bodies of male ballet
dancers has turned to a different kind
of a dance.
Instead of hearing the swish of
tarletan skirts, the unhappy Italians
hear the shriek of sharpnel, the whine
of bullets and then see across snow
swept spaces the gleaming long bay
onets of the defenders.
In Africa, Mussolini's armies have
been either captured or dispersed
by
the laughing Australians who see in
Mussolini nothing but a loud noise.
All this we see in the morning
paper, then we turn to the warning
of dire things to happen to the United
States if any assistance is rendered to
England or if neutrality as defined by
Hitler shall be violated.
The propaganda of spreading fear
falls as a dud when it lands in the
United States. It does not click in
England where the people have be
come accustomed to the threats, the
making of fierce war mask faces and
loud hysterical shouts of the dreadful
things that are in store for all who
do not immediately sue for peace.
It is the old first World War idea
jf "schrecklicheit," frightfulness that
will make the enemy shrink in terror
and cower before the coming of the
conqueror. It did not work on that oc
casion and it will not work now.
That propaganda falls as flat as the
stories about the superiority of a race
so mechanized and regimented that
every man and every woman has lost
his or her identity with their freedom.
While it has been ground into them
that they slavery is an honorable
badge of pride and patriotism they are
held up to us as a strong, brave and
noble people and we are told our in
dependence and freedom is character
istic of a weakling race.
There is where the American laughs,
loud, defiant Homeric laughter. He
laughs at the two world clowns who
will go down into history as amazing
characters of weakness, insanity and
futility.
We have listened long enough to
the ravings of two psychopathies who
are running amok as two lunatics at
large. Their antics have been amus
ingly funny but following our laugh
ter, which will have grown hard,
harsh, defiant and angry, they will
find what laughing men can do to
them.
People of the United States havo
gone through great wars, suffered
great hardships and privations and
survived and laughed through it all.
We shall continue to laugh our defi
ance, show that courage and fortitude
is a part of the heritage of free peo
ple, a people who laugh at the antics
of dictators who seek to frighten them
with obscure threats of dire and
dreadful reprisals if they do not bow
to the will of the ruthless maniacs
now running amok in Europe.
Wc shall not be merely giving them
the old razzberry, we will be sending
it over with our compliments and the
imprint, "Made in the U. S. A. where
Men are Free."
Expelled Union Official
Carries Case To Court
Seattle, Wash. (ILNS).—Charges
of Communism within the Boeing Air
craft Company local of the A. F. of
L. Aeronautical Mechanics Union will
be aired in court.
Donald R. Keepler, deposed vice
president of the local, has filed suit
for re-establishment of his union
membership and $21,500 damages. He.
charged that the special union trial
board which convicted him of Com
munist activity "lacked substantial
evidence" in support of its verdict and
that a union meeting at which the
finding was upheld was called il
legally.
Under a union shop contract he lost
his job at the Boeing plant, where he
said he had been employed for eight
years and was earning about $60 a
week.
Superior Judge Malcolm Douglas
signed an alternate writ ordering the
defendants to reinstate Keppler or
show cause February 10 why they
should not.
AIR CORPS WANTS MECHANICS
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—The
Civil Service Commission has been
asked by the Army Air Corps to pro
vide ground crews for 50,000 airplanes
in J!) 12. Eight thousand civilians are
now employed as mechanics in the Air
Corps and 20,000 will be needed in
the servicing of planes ne .t ear.