The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-15
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtchet Out
The Truth
o HOT NEWS
q "THE KISS OF DEATH"
q THE LEAGUE is DEAD
9 SOMETHING BREWING

The world is mighty full of news.
Not all of it is out in the open. Some
turks behind doors and behind cur
| tains.
John l.. Lewis gives Burton K.
Wheeler big play. The A. F. of L..
lets go a "kiss of death" statement,
naming no names.
The shot really was aimed at
Wheeler, believe it or not.
Before the show is over both sides
may be sorry they said it.
Politics is so full of number Of
things that you'd never guess before
hand.
Now, if-FDR runs for third
term, what then?
1t can happen-and many think it
is sure to.
X X X
The blithe writer's and speakers who
rushed to the defense of the Ameri-
can League for Peace and Democracy,
formerly named the American League
Against War and Fascism, filled with
fellow travellers, are free now to pro-
duce their alibis.
The League has folded up, by action
of it's own Board
x X X
And there are the silk boycotters,
at it again.
DR.. Walter Judd, who lists himself
as from Hankow, China, a medical,
missionary, goes galumphing around,
making speeches to church and fra
ternal groups, trying to get them to
stop buying silk, so as to help cripple
Japan.
The good doctor never gives a
thought to the thousands of
American union workers who
make their living in the American
silk manufacturing industry.
And a laugh in the whole business
is that the doctor never talks about
anything but silk stockings. The
whole boycott idea has from the first
stuck tightly to sex lines. Never a
mention about silk panties, brassies,
slips, dresses and other trickeries.
Nor about silk ties and underwear
for men-nor silk Innings in hats.
Like most Of the sillies, this silly is
full of Inconsistencies.
It's about time to throw the crazy
idea out the window along with other
ninnyfiddles which serve little pur-
pose except meal ticket for "our lit
tie group"
/ pnIy n,It fn,. III ~,f
and file labor peace movement.
One is in the cooking stage and may
blossom on page 1 soon.
x X 4
Here's a news item: A propagandist
has been on the job recently looking.
for signatures among top-fiight laboj
men to a declaration which declarGsY
that Republican president is needed
as successor to FDR. Up to this writ
ing signatures are not coming easy.
Most leaders frankly don't want to go
out on limb-at least not so early.
x X X
John l.. Lewis tried to poke fun at
the cake presented to the President by
the Bakery and Confectionery Work
ers as a means of helping to fight in
fantile paralysis. 1t was clumsy fun,
typical of three other terrible blunders
in the Lewis press startegy during the
past Is months.
The cake bore candles decorated
with 500 each, given by various
unions. 1t was presented by three
young ladies, daughters of the Bakery
Workers Union officials. Mr.. Green
presented the young ladies to the
President and handed over the cash
contributions.
Lewis, in twitting to the effect that
Green couldn't deliver anything with
out damage, pulled poor and boorish
comment on the fact that, due to the
worst storm in decades, the cake was
broken in transit.
No storm and no accident could mar
the great charity of heart and mind
represented in that magnificent gift.
Lewis said he was busy getting bread
for the miners. The miners remain
to be heard from, but perhaps some
day they may find way to offset
their comment.