The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-08

Generally it isn't wise to PREJUDICE
a case-that is, to pass Judgment be-
fore the case has gone to court.
SO we shall have nothing to say
about how Mr.. James Petrillo will
come out in his bout with Thurman
Arnold. Generally Mr.. Arnold has
found himself out on a limb when he
has jousted with unions.
Yes, generally Mr.. Arnold's cases
have been sour.
But Mr.. Petrillo's order banning the
making of radio and julle box record
ings is also very sour.
Leaving the legal side of the matter
out of the discussion, because, for one
thing Mr. PetrillO has enough people
jumping on him in that field, from a
broad, general interest point of view,
Mr.. Petrillo did what many another
man has done He got his timing all
wrong.
If you intend to take away from
people something which they very
much enjoy and something which is
very much involved in the daily liv-
ing of a great many people, then you
don't try to hit them while they're
being hit from almost every other con-
ceivable angle.
Mr.. Petrillo has great many
friends and they should have advised
with him that this war time is no time
to lead with the left in such a fashion
Civilian man power is being so de-
pleted that shortly the male popula-
ton will consist almost solely of those
who just have to be kept in essential
industry, plus the aged, the lame, the
blind and the halt.
1t looks like bad timing, which good
generals try to avoid.
X X X
Those who heard Dan Tobin on the
air after his return from England just
few days ago, got an example of
good timing and of good, sound utter
ance.
Dan Tobin set an example for labor
utterances in that radio talk.
Nir. Petrillo might consult with Dan
Tobin about public relations in these
wartimes Mr. Tobin knows about pub
lie relations. He is very fortnight at
times and there have been times when
he seemed to have no care whether
anybody liked or didn't like what he
had to say. q
But Dan TObin also knows when to
say something and what is the thing
that needs to be said. A shining and
crowning example was that radio
speech upon his return from war
SCARED England
Get in there and give it everything
YOU have was the burden of his talk,
but it was couched in the great Ian
guage of craftsmanship, it was de-
livered with conviction that must
have planted conviction in the hearts
of others. 1t was a profound conviction
that Dan Tobin cast out upon the air
waves.
|. 1t made some other utterances of
some other people seem pretty shoddy
and pretty shallow and selfish.
x X X
thing if he were to come forth with a
planning about how to give the people
all the good and inspiring music they
could possibly get, to pace their eff
forts to turn out the enormous guam
titles of commodities and munitions to
win the war
Not the stuff that urges the Zoot
suit manacS to fresh contOrtiOnS, but
the stuff that brings troops to a smart
er step, the stuff that makes Il lump
come TO the throatS of audiences, the
stuff that makes men and women re-
solve To higher and higher endeavOr.
Music has Il great and wonderful role
to play in this glohal war.
1t isn't Il time to Sntch away the
only music Il lot of folks ever get the
chance TO hear.
Come on Mr.. petrillO, look what's
going on in this world and act like you
understood it just a little !-CNIW.