The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-02-06
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutchet Out
The Truth
. MUSSOLINTS THREATS
. "MADE IN BERLIN"
. DON'T SCARE BRITISH
. OR AMERICANS

1t has been said that Revolution
is no gentleman.
1t may we'll be said that war is no
laughing matter.
But there is some humor to be
CLEANED when one scans his morning
newspaper and sees the picture Of
Mussolini whipped to frazzle in AL
bania and in Africa, then turns to
II Duce's morning warning to the
United States.
Of course Mussolini's threats are all
plainly labelled "Made in Berlin" but
it only adds to the grim humor Of
the situation.
In Albania mountain Greek meets
valley Greek and they show the
Italian troops that what they had been
told was just a case of walking over
the feeble bodies of male ballet
dancers has turned to a different kind
of a dance.
Instead of hearing the swish of
tarletan skirts, the unhappy Italians
hear the shrek of sharpnel, the whine
of bullets and then see across snow
swept spaces the cleaning long bay
onets of the defenders.
In Africa, Mussolini's armies have
been either captured or dispersed by
the laughing Australians who see in
Mussolini nothing but loud noise.
All this we see in the morning
paper, then we turn to the warning
of dire things to happen to the United
States if any assistance is rendered to
England or if neutrality as defined by
Hitler shall be violated
X X X
The propaganda of spreading fear
falls as dud when it lands in the
United States. 1t does not click in
England where the people have be-
come accustomed to the threats, the
making of fierce war mask faces and
loud hysterical shouts of the dreadful
things that are in store for all who
do not Immediately sue for peace.
1t is the old first World War idea
Of "schrecklcheit," frightfulness that
will make the enemy shrink in terror
and cover before the coming of the
conqueror. 1t did not work on that Oc-
casion and it will not work now.
That propaganda falls as flat as the
stories about the superiority of race
so mechanizeG and regimented that
every man and every woman has lost
his or her identity with their freedom.
While it has been ground into them
that they slavery is an honorable
badge of pride and patriotism they are
held up to us as a strong, brave and
noble people and we are told our in
dependence and freedom is character
istic of weakling race.
There is where the American laughs,
loud, defiant Homeric laughter. He
laughs at the two world clowns who
will go down into history as amazing
characters Of weakness, insanity and
futility.
We have listened long enough to
the rawlings of two psychopathics who
are running amok as two lunatics at
large. Their antics have been anus
ngly funny but following our laugh
ter, which will have grown hard,
harsh, defiant and angry, they will
find what laughing men can do to
them.
K X
People of the United States have
gone through great wars, suffered
great hardships and privations and
survived and laughed through it all.
We shall continue to laugh our def
ance, show that courage and fortitude
is part of the heritage Of free peo
pie, people who laugh at the antics
Of dictators who seek to frighten them
with obscure threats of dire and
dreadful reprisals if they do not bow
to the will of the ruthless maniacs
now running amok in Europe.
We shall not be merely giving them
the old razzberry, we will be sending
it over with our compliments and the
imprint, "Made in the U. S. A. where
Men are Free