The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-22

to any other grOup-becauSe of the
fate that befel Labor in all Axis con,
querad countries.
Labor editors have the task of urg,
ing that all war time regulations be
carried out. You have fought hard
enough for Labor Legislation to know
that laws are useless without law
abiding citizens. You have seen in these
latter days so-called liberty which
knows no law except that of the firing
squad and the will of the dictator. Let
us not forget that our strength and our
prosperity, our felfare and our happi-
ness are dependent upon wise laws,
justly administered, to which all our
people, not some, but all are obedient.
AS soon rs we find any class in this
country grown so strong that they can
defy the law which the rest of us must
obey, you can make up your mind that
the government is on the way out.
There is no liberty for all men unless
all are Obedient The force of law lies
in the respect men have for it and it
prevails only when it serves the com
mon good.
You, as labor editors. have to lead
the way. You are dealing with mature
thinking men. You don't have to coddlp
them in your columns. Anyway, in this
war there has been too much pleading
and not enough leading. The labor
editors must keep the men to whom
they are preaching right on the job of
winning this war. Concentration on the
war effort doesn't mean that there
must be moratorium on criticism.
Criticism is fair and legitimate. But
criticism should be constructive instead
OF merely destructive. Most any one
can see the badness and the weakness
i'm men and organizations. Faults are
always glaring. But 1t takes wise
man to see the good i'm others True
criticism does not necessarily mean
pointing out weaknesses. 1t should also
include the discovery of virtue
Don't make the mistake of the daily
press by criticising only the opposition
You have Il good enough case SO that
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show that You are bigger than the
other papers by coming out against
any slip on the part of any labor man.
Prove you can take it rs we'll as dish
it out!
1t is not sabotaging the war effort
to hold Il contrary opinionlt is sable
tagging the war effort to try and break
Gown unity--but differing is not dis
unity.
The points Of difference I'm America
are far less important than the points
of agreement. We may seem to devote
more time to them and to grow more
articulate over them, but as Il people
we speak more of non n-eSSentialS than
of those more serious things to which
we give allegiance. We still have the
shynesS of the idealist
II should be remembered that the
people who settled this country all
wanted one thing freedom to live
their own lives and to gain for them
selves and their descendants Il better
life than they had known. One thing
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than static has been that for every
man there has been the hope that his
children would go farther and fare
better than he had, both economically
and socially. Our greatest unifying
force Is the ideal of religious. social,
political and economic opportunity
which in the last analysis motivateS
the majority of our citizens.
Because we have this Inheritance of
freedom, we can be inlelligently Il
To orders, but because in times of
emergency we choose to act as one
people, never nbdicnting but vountar-
lily setting aside our rights to differ
or to express that difference. We are
one because we are free to know the
truth and to speak it. We do not have
to have 1t kept from us. In every time
of crisis we have proven that we can
stand together
One thing we can do in the cause Of
unity is to talk from the standpoint
of our common objective. Most of the
WIFI WHICH we are
now or at any other time could be
settled If we would base our argl-
ments on those things which we have
I'm common, rather than on our differ
ences. There are very few people who
are entirely 'agin' things, or who do
petty, mean, or unfair things inten-
tiOnully. I'm sure YOU don't. | hope
don't And we're no different from
other people. If we could Just sit down
with those with whom we do not agree,
and start counting the things we have
in common, we would see that these
things are far more important and far
outweigh those points on which We
differ
Get the idea? Let's talk about our
common objective--not the differences
which those alien agitators within our
borders are trying to stress. And while
we are about 1t let's get together and
fight for that common objective to
which we are all dedicated today-the
wiping out OF the Axis and the full
tllment of the pledges contained in the
Four Freedoms for all the peoples OF
all the earth.