The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-04-25
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtchet Out
The Truth
. GERMANY STRIKES
Q SHIPS DOWN IN FLEETS
. CITIES POUNDED
Q SPRING, BUT NO SONG

. SPRING, BUT NO SONG ]
No sooner was last weeks column
written than Wham! Germany let
loose running all over Denmark and
Norway. That is NOT the end, and
again the development may get there
faster than this discussion gets into
print.
Meanwhile the butchery has been so
sweeping and so horrendous as to sat
isfy the most extreme sadist.
Ships have gone down in fleets.
Cities have been pounded and blasted
and torn in steady procession.
President Roosevelt says Greenland
is more American, or more Western
Hemisphere, than European.
Small boys in the country used to
set off July Fourth explosions by lay
ing a powder train from what they
thought was safe distance. Some
times the powder train wasn't quite
long enough for safety, but no matter
how long a powder train is, it will
burn to the end.
Powder trains sometimes are laid
by adults and even by statemen.
x X X
Meanwhile, in Mexico a hot poll
tical campaign is on. An internal
issue, as we'll as an external one, is
the oil appropriation.
Avila Cahacho, government candi-
date, stands for the confscation to the
limit.
Juan Andreu Almazan, anti-govern-
ment candidate, friend of the United
States, though not servile one by
any means, stands for moderation and
something like international honesty.
Mexicans are inordinately proud.
Secretary Hull writes sizzling notes
to Cardenas and all Mexicans feel
bound to rally to Cardenas. Looks as
if Mr.. HulPs policy in that direction
is just the thing to insure the defeat
of a candidate who might do some
thing to reverse thecrazy policies of
Cardenas below the Rio Grande.
One gathers that Mr.. Hull doesn't
know much about Mexican thinking,
though he has men in his Department
who know ALL about it. Could it be
he doesn't ask them?
If the European war goes to it's
logical lengths this may be more i'm
portant to the United States than
anything else in the way of foreign
relations.
X X X
At time when mankind ought to
be happy in the early days Of Spring,
mankind is faced with the grimmest
future in decades.
The tides of war are running all
over the place. The drift is steadily
toward involvement of the Unites
States
Of course we haven't done any
thing to anybody at any place, but
that doesn't mean anything. Finland
hadn't done anything to anybody, nor
had Denmark or Norway-nothing ex-
cept to happen to lie in the path of
dictatorial ambition and desperation.
Norway got stepped on principally
because of the route to iron ore for
Hitler's armed forces. Iron ore and
diary products were worth trampling
Norway for.
A great many persons seem to over
look the fact that even though we are
neutral in law, we are wholesale sup
pliers of the Allies, in fact
We will keep on supplying the AL
lies, hoping they win the war and win
in a hurry.
But while we ship and hope, we
must not forget that we may have to
pay a price.
X x X
Meanwhile, too American labor con-
tinues fratricidal war.
Isn't it about time for dictatorial
manias to let up here, too?
Isn't it about time for Ameri-
can workers to say that this
country is big enough for only
ONE labor movement?
The longer the war goes on, the
more difficult will be the merging of
the two outfits, with their overlapping
and conflicting fields of action.
Many times | have said that the
human race is the funniest thing on
earth.
1t seems also the craziest.