The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-07-20
The cherryTree
Where We Hutchet Out
The Truth
. NAME CALLING
. RATHER TIRING
. JUST OBSCURES ISSUE
. MEANS LITTLE

Name calling at Washington and
elsewhere doesn't get the big hand
it once did.
"Tory," economic royalist," and
similar "smear" terms are losing their
appeal.
Public is tiring of name-calling,
whether from Washington or Wall
Street. Childish yells Of you're an
other!" from grown men bring only
boredom. Something more than name-
calling is needed to remedy our troub-
les, the people now realize.
Name-calling has never been sub
stitute for thinking. It saves wear
and tear on the brain but that's about
all that can be said for it.
X X X
If there had been less name-calling
and more effort at cooperation of all
elements in the national life, the
United States would in all probability
be in better shape today.
The name-calling aroused bitter
antagonism, which led to useless re-
ordinations and retarded cooperation.
New Dealers and their journalistic
and other champions started the ball
rolling by trying to pin various labels
on their critics and opponents.
The anti-New Dealers retorted in
kind, working hard to attach the La
bel of Communist" and other nameS
to the Administration boys. -
The result was that issues were obs
scured by the name-calling and natl
onal progress was held back.
X X x
Pinning a label on your opponent
is much easier than proving his wrong.
That's why it's so popular.
For time, it may get great ap-
plause from the emotional and I'M
thinking. But if it is continued, it
soon loses force. The politicians are
apt to forget this and go on seeking
to lump their opponents under oppro-
brious terms and names which from
too constant use have come to mean
little.
There are times when fortnight
denunciation of enemies Of the people,
accompanied by bill of particulars,
is in order. Such denunciation, though
is most effective when "smear" terms
are used sparingly.
x X X
John G. Winant, American director
of the International Labor Office, did
his bit to impress the workers Of the
world with the Importance of reducing
armaments, at the recent international
Labor Conference at Geneva. He en-
phasized this theme in his annual re-
port and in speeches before the cop-
ference. He again touched upon it
in his closing address, in which he
said that despite troubled times, the
spirit of the conference had been one
of hope. I
His words have application to Amer
lea, as well as to the rest of the world,s
since we, too, have shouldered bur-
den of armament and war preparation.
X X X
Winant said that the decision of the
conference to postpone action on the
forty-hour week might have disheart-
ened less tried body if it had not
been for the realism and the tenacity
of purpose which will continue to place
this issue in the forefront of all So
cial advance. He also promised that
the reduction of hours of work would
continue to be given consideration by
the LILO.
"The workers of the world he said,
"have learned today that with disarm-
| ament under whatever nO1itica1 lido.
ologies they find themselves, they can
look forward not only to reduced hours
but also to increasing surpluses of the
necessaries of life when income now
devoted to national defence may be
utilized for a more abundant life and
thereby raise the individual and col
lective standard of living for all peo-
pie everywhere"