The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-06-12
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtchet Out
The Truth
WINANTS EFFECT
NOT BECAUSE HE LIKES 1T
. MUST DEFEND OR LOSE
FREEDOM PERSONIFIES
SPIRIT OF RACE

John G.. Winant has come home to
tell story-and that story is going
to have it's very definite effect upon
YOU.
Now the coming home of the man
Winant-the long, angling, Lincoln
like Winant-is an interesting event.
Winant was one of the men to give
early form and purpose to the pro-
gram of labor legislation and that
has eliminated in such institutions
and agencies as the National Labor
Relations Board, the Social Security
Board and others.
He put into the early and pioneer
administrative policies those elements
that took account of human beings
and their everyday needs, their ways
of thinking and their problems in life.
He was a sound liberal, without
any of the rattle-trap and fuzzy trim
mings of the professional liberal, the
intellectual adventurer. At the end
of those long legs were feet that
planted themselves squarely on the
ground.
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So it is this man, who thinks in
terms of the common man, who knows
the intricate problems of the labor
unions, who has in his heart the as
pirations of you and your neighbor
around the corner, that has come
home to tell the President a story
about England and the fates of war.
! It. is clear that, with eye piercing
through the main issues, this ambas-
sador to what used to be called the
Court of St. James, where bank rolls
and tail coats were once the signals
of entree, John G.. Winant has come
to tell the President why the United
States and her 21 American ally ma
tions must hurry into the vortex Of
war.
You can't laugh off the seriousness
of that. And you can know what Wi
nant doesn't bring message like that
because HE likes war.
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He brings it because there is vi
tai issue, clear as bell, upon which
there is only one right side. And
that it is essential to choose that
right side, at whatever may be the
cost, or lose all chance thereafter to
take any side out of free choice.
He brings it because we must defend
freedom, or lose it.
John Winant thinks with the mind
of an American who sees back to the
flintlocks of Bunker Hill, on down
through the years, where always the
issue of freedom against dictatorship,
in one form or another, has been a
cause of struggle and conflict.
He sees the long line of that con-
flict, through wars and strikes and
the enlargement of education-in the
| struggles for better wages, for better
homes, for establishment of new
rights that has to come as new ways
offered the chance for new oppres-
sions.
1t is all one kind of struggle, with
many manifestations, many kinds of
fighting, many kinds of signs Of
progress and victory.
And now is the time of the top of
| IL dll-Clc DlS anu iiildl epic SIIuSSlC
to lose it all or win it all.
SO, having had careful lookings
through every little phase of the
great war that is going on, John
Winant comes home to say, so it
seems, that our time has come, our
moment has arrived.
Horrible as is the task, it must be
embraced. Terrible as is the pros
pect, there can be no evasion, unless
we count our gains not worth the
price, preferring complete surrender
to a struggle to hold our gains and
keep open the door to new years of
progress.
There are those, like Lindbergh,
who speak for yielding it all.
But John Winant, who seems some
how to personify the great spirit of
the race as it has marched down
from those early days of Concord and
Boston harbor, speaks more clearly
for the things that make America
what it is and that guide our con-
duct.-CMW.