The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-04
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MR.. MODESTUS
. Hang TOGETHER"
. SOVEREIGNTY
PROBLEM IS-VALUES
STARVATION FOR EUROP1

II . SOVEREIGNTY
. PROBLEM IS-VALUES
II STARVATION FOR EUROPE
"Hang together
Said old Ben Franklin
COR we shall surely hang separate
ly"-
Scandinavian countries could not
hang together
So Sweden is the only one left
hanging alone
Waiting to see whether Russia or
Germany will pick it
Balkans cannot trust each other,
separately, nor together
Each set of rulers knows what they
would do to the others, if and when
So they are trying to act as though
they trusted Hitler
In which policy all Fifth Column
elements concur
X X X
"Sovereignty"-
Is Individualism applied
To each separate group of races,
languages, land units
Camoufage, under which several
sets of would-be rulers
Maintain private control in national
processes
1t implies unending battles between
"sovereignties"-
Modified by temporary and shifting
| cha 1anooc Of pOuay,''
Inexorable logic Of sovereignty is
change, by battle
| Of which latest example is smash
ing Of Allied power by Axis power
Until the last lone wolf is brought
under control
Security's price, is federation
Toleration implies self-control, con-
scious-
Self-control implies giving up lib
critics unessential-
| Liberties unlimited are had only at
price of battles
Securities Of association make toll
erance and compromise inevitable
There is quid for every quo, in
selecting avenues of life
| Problem is: which set of values is
to be chosen?
There is risk in association
Partnerships are attended by un-
certainties-.
Witness: Partnership of Britain
and France
But advantages of association win
out over isolated effort
AS egotism gives way to intelli-
gence-
r. Blind impulse and passion submit to
reason and experience
| Men are more alike than they are
different
Have more interests in common
than opposing motives
Except when personal benefits de-
mand sacrifices of common interests
X X X
Substitution of group-operated ma,
chimes for hand tools
Multiplies elements of community
interest
Whose exploitation for personal
benefit contradicts Mechanics
Introducing control factors of ex.
aggerated personal Importance
Clashing with social structure and
operation of machines
Which are not personal in origin
construction, or service
But which can be thrown out OF
normal operation
When personal interests are jeop.
ardized, or Indifferent
X x x
This is the failure of our present
order
Whose success was based upon in
crease of social efforts
Implemented by increasing socia
character of utilities
Made possible by enlargement of CO.
operative effort
But which has sunk because inner.
ent social service
Has been subordinated to alleged
Importance of personal benefits
Striking at very roots of reason fol
existence of utilities
Which is service Of Community, not
personal benefits.
x X X
Hitlerism is only the capsheaf OF
this exaggerated individualism-
Masked under name of "NationaP
Socialism
In reality nothing but logical sub
limated gangsterism-
Battening on fruits Of socialized eff
fort
Destructive, at last, of the very So
cial body on which it feeds
In proof of which: Europe viii
starve within twelve months.