The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-03-07

of the Auto Dealers Association. He
organized the City Industrial League
after it was dropped by the Y. M. G..
A. A pitcher, he was the first in the
league to be credited with no-hit,
no-run game while playing with the
Hall China club.
you that every major war this old
world has seen during the past two
thousand years has been the result of
greed for an expansion of trade. Yes,
trade follows the flag, but the flag al
ways has had to be backed up with
cannon, battleships, force, and sup
ported by taxpayers money.
The secret rebates, government sub
sides, cartels, and every known de-
vice in skullduggery and commercial
trickery have been the causes of more
international jealousies and i'll feeling
than anything else. Those combined
with the battle for control of new
markets in world trade have been the
causes of the major wars Of the world.
l do not think there is anyone more
qualified to tell us about this than our
War President, Woodrow Wilson.
Listen to what he said in St. Louis
in speech given September 5, 1919,
less than year after the Armstice:
"THE REAL REASON THAT
THE WAR THAT WE HAVE
JUST FINISHED TOOK PLACE
WAS THAT GERMANY WAS
AFRAID HER COMMERCIAL
RIVALS WE'RE GOING TO GET
THE BETTER OF HER, AND
THE REASON WHY SOME Ma
TIONS WENT INTO THE WAR
AGAINST GERMANY WAS
THAT THEY THOUGHT GER
MANY WOULD GET THE COM
MERCIAL ADVANTAGE OF
THEM"
Isn't this statement on all fours
with what we learned in our school
days? Is there any difference in the
American ideology of the present
Secretary of State and that of his
predecessor Mr.. Kellogg? Both think
ing and acting in terms of World
Peace-both equally sincere. But, in
the final analysis, if put to a real test
as to merits, wouldn't the Kellogg
Pact stand out as supreme to the pres
ent wishful-thinking program?
If the Kellogg Pact, solemnly en-
tered into by the leading civilized ma
tions of the world and carrying the
ratification of the United States SEN
ate, was looked upon mere scrap of
paper, how can we expect any nation
to respect simple commercial agree
ment which is not even ratified by our
Senate and to consider it as anything
else but an agreement to be broken
if and when eXpedient to do so?
Just as the Kellogg Pact failed to
insure World Peace, so will every
other endeavor Of mankind fail in this
direction. We thought the League of
Nations would stop future wars. 1t
failed miserably. Anyone who really
and sincerely believes that this So
called Reciprocal Treaty Program will
insure peace is day-dreaming. They
are more likely to cause future wars
than prevent them. They never will
| stop the warning proclivities of the
! nations of the world To go before
the American people and make the
claims that are being made for this
7 program as medium for world peace
r after the present war is over is an in
suit to the intelligence of the Amer
: lean people. 1t is given to them like
2 an opiate to lull them to sleep will
! a feeling of false security.
5 Not until our esteemed Secretary OF
! State has found some secret and pow
r erful potion that he can administer
= to the rulers and diplomats of tht
3 world, which will inoculate then
), against the human passions of hate
greed, jealously, envy and revenge
can he come anywhere near reaching
the goal of world peace, for which h
so eloquently and sincerely is striving
All of his predecessors in office hav,
: sought the same goal and failed.
), The whole program is based on ;
: type of American ideology which fol
s lows the doctrine that we must say,
the world FIRST in order to say,
S America. In Heavens name, why no
r think in terms of our own and SAVE
r AMERICA FIRST?
: England and France are now usin.
Y the greatest weapon to gain advantage
t in foreign trade. All the benefits the,
t have given us are vitiated by their de
h probation of their respective cur
rencies. Yes, and mind you, there i
e a provision in each of the treaties t.
S take care Of that very point.
n Professor Kemmerer, the nation
n greatest currency expert, in a lette
s to me several years ago while writin,
: on currency depreciation, stated:
n 81 think that, for a short time,
e it strengthens the country's power
: to compete with other countries
r for foreign markets. In this way
e it acts like sort of export bounty
e and, in it's effects, is like dumping.
1t really is not a fair kind Of COM
:, petition. 1t is punching below the
Y belt"