The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-02-02
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutches Out
The Truth
. TEND TO KNITTING
. BIG PROBLEM
. LOSING HUMOR?
= SETTING EXAMPLE

Idea of "tending to our knitting" is
getting vigorous championship in Con-
gress.
Outstanding Senators and Repre-
sentatives are warning against Amer
lean involvement in Europe's quarrels.
Senator Robert H. Reynolds of
North Carolina, among others, has
emphasized the warning. He slammed
meddling with the internal affairs of
other nations and said:
81 think from now on we should at
tend to our business, keep to our knit
ting and attempt to provide employ
ment for the ten to twelve million
God-fearing men and women who are
walking the streets ill fed, ill clothed
and ill sheltered"
No one will attempt to deny, pub
licly at least, that providing Americas
jobless millions with full time en-
ployment is of paramount Importance.
Judging by the lack of success in
the last six years of effort to solve
the problem, it will be with us long
time. Certainly it's solution is a task
demanding our best efforts.
And we can't solve it if we are
sticking our nose in other peoples
business, worrying about the way they
run their affairs and striving to ire
form" them.
Another big problem which will take
our best efforts is prevention of mo-
tor accidents.
Auto slaughter on American high
ways is disgrace.
Yet it can be largely prevented, if
we have the will to tackle the job in
earnest.
Evansville, ILL.,, and several other
cities have proved that auto deaths
and injuries can be drastically reduced.
To get results, three main things
are necessary:
Determination by trained men of the
cause of accidents as they occur, with
quick and unsparing punishment of
drivers found to blame and remedy of
conditions making for street and high
way accidents.
The program takes some money and
some nerve. But Americans have both.
x X x
Is President Roosevelt losing his
good humor?
At a recent press conference, he is
reported to have dressed down"
newspaper man who asked him what
qualifications he believed Thomas r.
Amlie had for membership on the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
"The President shot back" one ac-
count says, "that he would not have
sent in Amlie's name if he had not be-
lieved him qualified for the post, ad-
ding that it was the first time at any
press conference a question of that
nature had been addressed to him."
Naturally, Mr.. Roosevelt must have
believed Mr.. Amlie had qualifications
for the post, or he would not have
nominated him.
But why the bad temper when asked
to name the qualifications
1t seems a perfectly proper ques-
ton, calling for an answer, not a dis
play of peevishness.
X X X
Miami's police officers have COM
pleted course of training in the fine
points of courtesy and politeness. The
instruction was given as part of a
campaign to welcome winter vacation
lists.
members of the police division are
official representatives of the city in
| the eyes of visitors" City Manager A.
E. Fuller commented, "and while we
desire the police to be firm in the en-
forcement Of general traffic laws we
want them to be courteous"
Miami is setting a good example to
every city in the nation.