The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-02-13
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutchet Out
The Truth
Q Observation-Disclosures
0 BUT HARD TO SEE
A VOICE TO SPEAK
NEEDED BADLY NOW

| Let's have another look at the little
matter of propaganda.
1t is visible from almost any point
in the United States in almost any di-
rection.
But more important is the fact that
so few seem able to see it.
Moreover, Latin America is full of
it. And, strange as it may seem, it
is only few days since we have been
told something of its volume by some
of the highest officials in the land,
in their testimony on the lend-lease
bill.
Here's bold statement of fact:
One official, whose job is lending U.
S. government money, says in private
conversation that no loans will be ap-
proved for Mexico until eve" are sure
which way Mexico would shoot in a
crisis.
And while this situation exists, no.
body does much Of anything about it.
Mr.. Nelson Rockefeller maintains
an expensive administration in Wash
ington, with great corps of helpers,
but he conceives it to be his duty
to talk only to governments.
What is needed is voice that can
and will speak to PEOPLES. We don't
have it.
We are told that the situation is
dangerous in a half dozen Latin
American countries. The fact is that
in most cases the governments are
looking the right way, but the PEO-
PIES are flooded with Nazi prop
aganda WE don't talk to peoples.
Mr. Rockefeller has what he prob
ably thinks is a high-minded attitude
and he sticks to governments.
When the Nazi want to do a job in
the United States they don't get close
to Washington. They fan out into a
machine that poisons our PEOPLE
with direct hits.
Why not try shots for direct hits
with truth in behalf of democracy?
The day cannot be far off when this
pussy footing will have to stop and
some real work will have to be done
by someone who knows about PEO-
PIE as distinguished from govern
ments and from stocks and bonds and
cooked up social worker theories.
x X X
Perhaps there are some who think
labor has no special stake in that
situation. There isn't space enough
to argue that out here; but briefly la
Dor is a part of the American nation
and it goes where the nation goes
AND HOW.
We are a very simple people, after
all, it seems when it comes to meet
ing the realistic, cold and brutal op-
erations of the gangster nations.
It's nice to say these things, are
none of our business-and Nazi prop
aganda help us to keep in that frame
of mind.
OF course we shall wake up some
day and raise hell about it. Maybe
it will be too late then and maybe
not. But it will at best be lot harder
and more costly to do than what ought
to be under way now.
However, that seems to be the way
lieve all the fairy stories of all the
wolves of the world. Their sleeps
clothing just can't be false Oh yeah!
x X
If we are stupid about hemisphere
conditions, we are equally stupid
about domestic conditions.
Instead of rip-roaring fight to
a. n
| leave it to the FBI to see that the
enemy forces don't blow up too much.
Those who want to get an idea Of
| how much twisted thinking there is
need only read the "letters to the
editor" column in any newspaper.
There you get mild reflection of
what the enemy agents are trying to
make us think. There you see the
| smoke screen.
| While in Washington there are
members of Congress who once wore
the atmosphere Of progressivism, now
using that atmosphere to cloak some
thing that probably is just as bad
as you think it is, whether it's poll
tics or alien interests that inspires the
speeches and the actions that have
had no sufficiently disgusting equiva-
lent since the 1917 World War.
While the great game of fooling
America goes on, it gets more and
more "later than you think" This
simply isn't meant to be light read
ing. 1t isn't funny, brother, it isn't
funny.-CMW.