The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-29
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtchet Out
The Truth
. BROWDER FOR PRESIDENT
GIN OR OUT OF PRISON
q CURRENTS AND CROSS
CURRENTS
. POST CHANGES HANDS

To a man in Omaha, New York
looks pretty far away. And in Omaha,
or Kansas City or San Francisco, New
York is not nearly as important as
New York generally thinks it is.
BUT, some things are happening
in New York that are interesting and
possibly important.
The Communist Party, bedraggled
old hag that it is, announces that it
will hold it's coming national conven-
tion in New York. And w. q. Foster
tells the world that the whole party
is united for the nomination of Earl
Browder for President, even if he's in
prison.
There are times when being in
prison is no handicap in politics and
carries no stigma. The case of Debs
is one in point.
But the case of Browder is not in
that class. Although Browder con-
victed is no more an enemy Of democ-
racy than was Browder in the pre-
conviction days. For the Communist
philosophy binds it's adherents to a
general course of trickery, treachery
and deception Of all who are not of
that persuasion. Always, "the end
justifies the means"
X X X
Well, while the reds are planning
their convention, which will follow the
party line,' with about as much voice
for the individual as is possessed by
the jassack, which can make but one
sound, something else has happened.
The New York Evening Post has
passed to the control of member of
the American Labor Party. It is the
first time in the United States that a
truly metropolitan newspaper has been
SO owned.
Immediately upon the change of
ownership many changes were made
in the method of handling news. La
Dor news gets a better play.
Whether the Post will back labor
on the economic field as we'll as on
the political field remains to become
clear. And it has to be remember
ed that in the national field the A.
F. of l.. is non-partisan, while in New
York A. F. of l.. members swing the
balance Of power in the A. L. p, while
the A. l.. P, swings the balance of
power in New York politics. 1t is all
a curious mixture of currents and
cross currents.
But to put great and powerful
newspaper into the American Labor
Party picture is to do something that
is important to the United States.
x X x
The Post will put new slant on
news from Washington and it prob
ably will put new slant on news
from the nations big population CEN
ters. Ditto as to the war.
The change of ownership of the
newspaper once dominated by Oswald
Garrison Willard has created scarcely
a ripple west of the Hudson, but it
will, as time goes on.
And so the city with the exagger-
ated ego really does something that
justifies little burst of 'Iook what
did"
Labor in the United States has
made only the most halting excursions
into the field of daily journalism. In
nearly all of the cases of record so
far (as, indeed, in the present CASEY
so-called daily labor papers have been
primarily political papers. And their
careers followed, by and large, the
curve of the political arc, usually a
freakish arc
X X X
There was the old Chicago Daily
Socialist, finally perishing to do a
Phoenix as the Chicago World, out
growth of a newspaper strike, again
to perish as the strike ended. There
was the Manitowoc (Wis.) Daily Tri-
bune, born to back Socialist mayor.
And the adventure in Seattle. And
the New York Call, with its meteoric
wartime flash of high life, ending
with a terrific crash at high speed.
That's about the list to date.
Now comes the New York Post, with
a great history and great tradition.
If the thing wins through it may
be the most stimulating thing that has
happened to none-too-brilliant AM
erican journalism since the Civil War.