The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-03-07
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtchet Out
The Truth
. THE HORNETS NEST
O c C C AND THE ARMY
. PLAYING WITH FIRE
o NEED FOR STRENGTH

The American Youth Congress has
surely stirred up a hornets nest of
controversy.
These active youngsters cannot see
why they should fall for the united
front" propaganda of the Communist
youth rabble which obeys Moscow as
a trained seal obeys he who holds the
fish in hand.
Such a generosity of viewpoint may
have it's merits but they are like the
merits of man who would rather be
stuck in the back by friend than by
a foe.
There is a tendency to forget that
the Constitution guarantees free
speech but it does not guarantee the
right to destroy our freedom under
the guise of free speech.
The reds have been eminently sue
cessful in turning the piety of patriot
ism into the hokum of revolution-and
some of our well placed Americans
fall too easily for the shot in the arm.
X x x
Latest spectacle in the red circus
is the attack on Aubrey Williams,
because he had the good sense to fur
nish the CCC and NYA young men in
formation, for which they asked, about
enlistment opportunities in the Army.
They jumped all over this splendid
administrator because he acted like an
American instead of like dope VIC
tim hoped up by Red Propaganda.
The United States maintains an
Army, of which most Americans are
rather proud, but the young rascals of
revolution charge Williams with NOV
ing toward militarization of the CCC
because he told some young men what
the army offered, in response to their
questions.
Nobody wants the CCC made
into military machine and there
doesn't seem to be any danger of
it. Aubrey Williams probably
would lead in opposing such
move.
But the reds, young and old, have
to have some issue about which to be-
labor American officials and institu-
tions. To make trouble is their main
job. Let's not forget that. To fall
for their schemes is the main weak
ness of some otherwise splendid Amer
leans.
Mr.. Williams says, quite properly,
that he believes every American is
entitled "to have information with re-
spect to enlistment in it's armed
forces" and that is most surely the
case. I
Communist Russia and it's agents in
the United States don't want the
American people to like their army or
their navy and they don't want either
branch to grow any stronger. Soviet
espionage has long had one long arm
out in a desperate effort to create
havoc in the U. S. Army and Navy.
The young men and women who are
playing into the hands Of this prop
uganda, Willingly or unwittingly, are
playing with fre-and the fire may
have to get pretty hot before long.
The wars in Europe surely aren't
getting any farther away from us and
our need of sound fighting strength
isn't getting any less.
X x X
These discussions usually are in
lightsome vein, SO that there may be
some island upon which the sun shines
with some degree of warmth.
But such didoes as those of the
Communist Youth crowd in our midst
raise temperature under the collar.
If it weren't so serious it would be
smart aleck.
Smart aleck stuff can be condoned,
but it passes with the years.
But this is an example of a for
eign agent, bent upon the expan-
sion of dictatorship and the de-
struction Of democracy, using the
young people of our nation for the
furtherance of its evil and warlike
designs.
The fact is that Communist Russia
has from the first actually been at
war in a very real sense with every
democracy, including, above all others,
our own.
If we let them get away with it,
then we are saps beyond description,
gullible beyond belief.
Are we?