The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-07-14
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtchet Out
The Truth
. A SPY SCARE
. OF LITTLE VALUE
. A DIFFERENT TUNE
. PLENTY OF MONEY

Spy case in New York, with rami-
fications elsewhere, has failed to pro-
duce "spy scare"
This is tribute to the good sense
of the American people.
They have come long way since
World War days when every strange
light was spy's f1ashlight signal and
when neighbors who called for sauer-
kraut instead of "liberty cabbage"
were suspected of being in the
Kaiser's pay.
Those were the days when almost
any kind of preposterous propaganda
got across.
In recent years, much of this prop
aganda, both Of picture and text, has
been revealed as pure hokum.
Of course, we don't want foreign
agents, bunglers though they may be,
prying into our affairs.
But unless the "spying" takes a
more dangerous form than revealed up
to date, there is no danger it will cause
popular hysteria.
x X x
People showed flicker of interest
when the spy case broke with indict-
ments by Federal jury in New York.
Then, as the facts came out, interest
tagged.
Much Of the so-called spying was
apparently the work of simpletons.
AS, for example the foreign agent
who went laundering around customs
guards with violin case filled with
plans of an American bombing plane.
And the case of another who posed
as "Under-Secretary of State" in an
infantile effort to get so blank pass
ports.
The plotters, it seems, obtained lit
tie Of value, though they got much
that is open to all, such as information
that is contained in government pub
lications and organs of army and navy
men. l..
Solicitude displayed nowadays by
Communists for Roosevelt Admins
tration reforms is touching.
Only a few years ago, all reform
legislation was vehemently denounced
by the Communists as blocking "rev-
olution" and to be scorned by all true
disciples of Marx and Lenin.
A different tune is sung in this year
1888.
In an effort to make progress in the
United States and to win friends for
the Russian Communist dictatorship
in what is seen as the inevitable war
between Communism and Fascism, the
American Communists praise and ad-
vocate wage-hour, social security and
all sorts of hitherto derided legislation.
AS result opponents of reform
measures use the old argument that
since the Communists advocate re-
forms, the reforms are therefore
Communism.
In other words, the Communists
are doing the cause of reform no good.
Communist support of reform meas
ures will be handicap, not help, in
all probability.
X X X
Despite the hard times experienced
by millions in this decade, America,
as nation, has more good things and
| is DeLCcT OH economically CIldn Cne resi-
of the world.
A recent study shows that the U.
S. contains only six per cent of the
worlds area and seven per cent of
worlds population. Yet America con-
sumes As per cent of the worlds cof-
fee, So per cent of it's tin, Sc per cent
of it's rubber, 21 per cent of it's sugar
and II per cent of it's silk
Sixty per cent of the worlds tele-
phones are operated in the U. S. and
80 per cent of the worlds motor cars
are owned here.
America produces 70 per cent Of
the worlds oil, 60 per cent of its
wheat, and cotton.
With more than $1l billion in gold,
this country possesses nearly half of
the worlds monetary metal.
The purchasing power of the Amer
lean people is greater than that of
500, 100000 Europeans and many times
larger than that Of more than billion
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