The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-04-11
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtchet Out
The Truth
. BLOND SPILLS BEANS
. NOT "RED BATTING"
. BLOND is SECRET AGENT
. TRUTH AFTER 20 YEARS

II . TRUTH AFTER 20 YEARS
A beauteous blond spills lot of
of charges against Silver Shirt Pelley.
Says he was linked up with Guard and
Army officers to someday grab gov
ernment, proclaim himself some kind
of king.
Everybody snickers when beauteous
lady spills beans.
Then they read on few lines and
discover blond is secret service agent.
All, that's different. That's horse
of another model. Seems the lady
knew her onions-and her colored
shirts.
The old yawp about "red batting"
isn't what it used to be.
This column has said before that
the best piece of propaganda the reds
ever did was to coin and popularize
the phrase "red batting"
1t was diffcult-but they did it
made it stick with lot of otherwise
sensible folks.
Try and popularize the phrase
"skunk batting" The reds did a good
job, which proves the gullibility of so
many persons.
X X X
Congressman Dies did some foolish
things when he started out. He may
do more. Under red inspiration he
was roasted high, wide and handsome.
But he stuck to his guns and today
he's getting a pretty good first class
vindication.
Even thought most of the main
lines Of the testimony could have been
answered by A. F. of L. documents and
evidence 20 years or more old.
But if you can get the truth known
in 20 years, that's a good job.
Europe hasn't learned in longer than
that.
American employers didn't learn for
several times that long. Some haven't
learned yet.
Human rights, freedom, democracy
those are great words, with a big,
deep meaning.
Reactionary employers, Fascists,
Nazis, Communists-alf hate those
words.
Winning freedom sometimes is
tough job that calls for rough work.
But in the end victory usually goes
to the right side, unless the fighters
lose all heart.
Sometimes those who start out
fighting for Liberty lose their own OBJ
jectives in the very fight they make
they get soaked in power and then
when they win the whole object. of
their fight has changed. Somebody else
has to start all over again.
| Find examples in our own Civil
War. Not Lincoln-but others.
Labor, too, has had some ex-
amples. That's too bad But it
helps show that labor is not a
thing apart from the rest of the
population, it's members not men
and women apart from the rest of
the human race.
Cause and effect still seem to op-
crate and they don't work any 8-hour
day either.
Some will jump up quick to name
John L. Lewis. But the list couldn't
just stop there.
However, as to many persons and
many acts, final judgment will have
to wait several years. We're yet too
near the forest to see all the trees
clearly-and too close to the trees to
get good look at the forest. History
never gets in a hurry.
But the principles with which his
, tory is much concerned are just about
constant.
X X X
Some men find it interesting, as
they watch the truth about Americas
would-be, tin-horn autocrats come out.
They must feel little silly around
the gills. Maybe, too, they can get
the beginnings Of hunch that play
ing with the reds was perhaps play
ing pretty close to Jail doors.
Footnote to the whole show at the
moment is the fact that the Daily
: Worker, Communist party organ, has
registered with the State Department
as representatives of a foreign prin-
, cipal.
Incidentally, has Tass, Soviet news
agency, registered?
l Meanwhile Europe burns, one way
or another. Economic strangulation
plans are war plans. Essenkrieg.
, The Caesars strut and boast-and
maybe go to sleep scared stiff.
America needs to watch out,
, and mainly to keep principles
shined up clean-and to strip
through to the facts of every
case
Again, labor is the backbone of the
nation-or SHOULD be. 1t is labor's
rightful role. Destiny calls-pretty