The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-04-12
Cherry
~ Where with our
roo Little Hatchet we
tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly. Sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

A beauteous blond spills a lot of
charges against Silver Shirt Pelley
Says he was linked up with Guard
and Army officers to some day grab
government, proclaim himself some
kind of king.
Everybody snickers when beauteous
lady spills beans.
Then they read on a 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 difficult-but they did it
made it stick with lot of otherwise
sensible folks.
Try and popularize the phrase
"skunk batting" The reds did good
job, which proves the gullibility of so
many persons.
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 frst-class
vindication.
Even though most of the main lines
of the testimony could have been an
swered 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 all hate those
words.
Winning freedom sometimes is a
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 T.. 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 a good look at the forest. His
tory never gets in a hurry.
But the principles with which his
tory is much concerned are just about
constant
Some must find it interesting, as
they watch the truth about Amer
ica's would be tin-horn autocratc
come out. They must feel little
silly around the gills. Maybe, too,
they can get the beginnings of
hunch that playing with the reds was
perhaps playing 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