The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-08
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutchet Gu,
The Truth
o RECORDS ON BRICKS
Q 1874 TONS OF GOLD
q SUMMER is OVER
o PLAYING WITH FIRE

Something gave all the big buildings
of Babylon steady, persistent push,
and the only living thing we have left
on earth that was ever connected with
Babylon is the Hebrew race.
Babylonians kept their records on
bricks.
Those bricks are the most per-
manently interesting thing in Babylon
today.
But the Hebrews seem to be even
more enduring than the Babylonian
bricks.
Meme, Meme, Tekel, Upharsin.
| Is the God of the Hebrews going to
write that same Babylonian legend
over the gates of the German Reich?
x X X
Suppose there is "ray", capable of
destroying all steel.
Then suppose that the Japitalermans
turn such ray on North America.
There would be quite large crash,
and only the non-ferrous metals would
be available for human use-at least
for awhile.
Of course, somebody would sooner
or later turn the same ray on the Ger
mitalanese.
Wouldn't it be interesting then, to
see what would come out of the diff
ferent misunderstanding from the
same scratch!
X X X
America has some 1872 tons of
gold, all in one place.
1t wouldn't go very far for building
purposes.
But you might make some very
beautiful and durable clothes with it.
That is somewhere over half of the
visible gold supply of the world.
| How fortunate that we don't have
to depend upon gold for something
really important.
Now that it has been proven that
it was not really important as a cir
culating medium, or as measure of
value, or as a means of exchange
perhaps we can begin to find out some
thing really useful to do with this
large COB of yellow metal. Of course,
lit is pretty, properly shaped and
polished.
But copper is just about as pretty,
and there is lots more of it.
Trouble with. copper, it perishes:
gold does not rust. If gold were SUBJ
ject to the same rate Of deterioration
as other metals, there would be mighty
little of it in the world. But we
wouldn't miss it much. Magnesium is
much more important, and so is
manganese.
Well, there is no such ray-although
there may be, some day.
But Father Time has other solvents;
which do strange things to the present
cornerstones of civilization, given ell
bow-room enough.
X X X
So what?
Well, nothing much: except that it
is good for the worrying mind to
change it's perspective once in while,
and rest the nerves by getting out of
the rut.
You see things bit clearer when
you shift back into gear.
X X X
Summers over, fall begins.
Perhaps tempers will improve with
the passing of the hot months.
Tempers here and abroad can stand
lot of improvement.
Calmness, good nature, an end to
name-calling, seem the need of the
hour, domestically and internationally.
Many leaders have been acting a
good deal like children.
Name-calling is characteristic Of
| the childish mind.
Some day the name-calling will
seem pretty silly. After all, an
epithet is never an argument.
x x X
Internal warfare weakens labor and
tends to arouse public anger.
1t makes for state of the public
mind that will approve repressive leg
islation and vigilante action.
In plain words, internal warfare is
playing with fire. Great numbers of
organized workers realize this but
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