The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-03-28
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtchet Out
The Truth
. THE NEW SPORT
Q TAKE A SHOT AT HOOVER
. NO WIRE-TAPPING
. WRIST-TAPPING METHODS

i . WRIST-TAPPING METHODS
The great sport just now is to whale
the daylights out Of Hoover, the Big
Sleuth of FBI.
Election time is rolling near and
the politicos have to have targets.
Hoover, being somewhat prominent,
makes a target.
Cheap skates and those who have
tracks to cover find it good shooting
to take crack at Hoover.
Always, some of the good people,
like Norris, can be induced to join in.
Hoover's worst offense is that he
has sent some bad eggs to the dun
geons.
He has way Of getting publicity
and some hate him for that. But, as
it has been said, maybe that's not so
bad, because publicity has helped make
bad eggs afraid.
There's been howl about wire-tap-
ping. There has to be stern protec-
tion of innocents, but just how long
must authority content itself with tap
ping on the wrist it's Lucianos and Ca
pones?
X X X
| And how about the Reds and the
Fascists and the Nazis When Dem
ocratic government goes into action
to protect it's democracy, just how
gentle must it be in the process of
getting the goods on the avowed en-
emies of democracy?
Under our laws we have to make
case, not as the Reds and the Nazis
make one, but so that convictions can
be had under our law. 1t happens that
these snakes can do MOST of their
dirty work without violating any of
our laws in such a way that evidence
cannot be got through wrist slapping
methods. They don't conspire on
street corners.
Partisan shooting at Hoover is
about as out of place as anything
could be, because here is one chap who
has been about as free from PARTISAN
ship in political sense as any office
holder in the United States.
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Such agencies as the League for
Human Rights, Freedom and Democ-
racy, can work only through educa-
ton, which is, of course, the best way
for longtime results and for the pre-
vention of multiplication of snakes.
Such agencies - and particularly
that one-are bulwarks for democracy
and freedom. They should have a hum
dred times the support they get. Of
you have some money you'd like to :.
put to good use, send it to the League,
quickly).
But it happens that there's war
on between dictatorship and democ-
racy. And, on top of that, there's war
with guns in Europe.
The aggressOrs will use any method
or any weapon that they think will get
results.
They have no scruples, no COM
Functions, no principles, no ethics.
With them, "the end justifes the
means," always.
And so they go on, building nests
Of hate and destruction within our
midst and in Mexico, from which they
get ready to jump on us, if, as and
when they deem it helpful to their
policies.
X X X
One more thought: Those who are
startled by the Dies testimony Of
these passing weeks would do we'll to
recall that more than Is years ago the
American Federation of Labor pre-
pared for a Senate Committee COM
plete testimony which was exactly like
the testimony of today in fact and in
deed, differeing only in names, dates
and places.
And no more than five or six years
ago William Green presented to the
State Department, protesting against
recognition of the Soviets, an equally
complete document, every bit as sem
sational as the Dies testimony and also
differing not at all in anything except
the dates.
The Reds have been at it a long
time, doing the same thing continu-
ously. The American Federation of
Labor has neither been fooled nor
asleep, but it appears that almost
everyone else has been both, stimuli
taneously.
America has everything it prizes to
protect; and labor, above all others, is
alert and on the job in that protection.
Human Rights, Freedom, Democracy
that's America. Let's keep it so.