The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-04-17
Straight From
Washington
BY STEPHEN NJ. YOUNG
Congressman at Large, Ohio

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ginia, close to the beautiful campus
of the University Of Virginia at Char
lottesville a great American states
man is buried. He wanted his own
birthday, April 18th, forgotten but
July 4th remembered This man was,
in his lifetime, legislator, Governor,
Secretary Of State, Vice President of
the United States, Minister to France
and for eight years President Of the
United States, yet his epitah at Mon
ticello which he wrote contains no
mention of these hOnOrs or Offices. In
stead it is this simple statement:
"Here was buried Thomas Jefferson,
Author Of the Declaration of Ameri-
can Independence and the Virginia
Statute of Religious Freedom and
Founder of the University of Vir
ginia." He is remembered as he want
ed to be remembered, not for the of
fees he held or honors he enjoyed but
for the services he rendered mankind
No doubt the four greatest Americans
of all time are Washington, Lincoln,
Franklin and jefferson.
Private Bills
About ten thousand private bills are
pending in Congress. Most of these
ask for money from the public treas
ury Recently in the House Of Rep
resentatives this private bill was con-
sidered: A contractor agreed to take
the garbage from a cantonment in
North Carolina. He bought lot Of
little pigs to feed on the garbage.
Our soldiers back in 1918 were quite
hungry and very little was left from
their plates to feed pigs. After the
war this contractor had his Congress
man introduce a private bill to pay
him $33, COO because he did not get
enough garbage to feed the pigs he
had bought. His bill was debated and
defeated. The present emergency
will doubtless produce volume of
equally ridiculous claims for the fu
turc Congresses to wrestle with.
w. z. A.
Jokes about w. P. A. workers as
shovel leaners are out of order. Army
officials report that w. P A. workers
have repaired barracks for Fort Knox
and other forts, have constructed rec
reation Centers, erected quarters at
Norfolk to house eleven hundred sail
ors and have constructed the airport
at West Point. Recently W. P. a.
workers rebuilt the shipyards at the
Boston Navy Yard so that two de-
stroyers could be constructed there.
Congressman Edmiston Of West
Virginia is plenty peeved. In fact, he
is downright mad. He wanted to find
out whether the Army would consider
prefabricated buildings in its con-
struction program. He said, Il called
one bird and was transferred sixteen
times until | was referred back again
to the same bird. It's the old army
game
An Invitation
Our ships are now painted exactly
like British naval vessels. This isn't
exactly insurance. 1t might be an in
vitation.
Conveys
The American people want peace,
the same as the people of Norway,
Holland, Denmark and Greece wanted
peace Conveying supply vessels by
American warships is step toward
war. Conveys mean shooting and
that means American war vessels
bombed and American boys killed. Ma
jority opinion in Congress is against
conveying ships with our naval
vessels.
American people generally approve
the Lend-Lcase Law because they be-
lievc it to be a measure of defense
offering the best chance to keep our
country out Of war. Hitler has now
proclaimed that the war zone includes
the waters around Iceland and eX-
tends within three miles of Green |
land. Without doubt Greenland and
Iceland are inside the Western Hemis-
phere Nevertheless Hitler warns that
any ships entering this zone will be