The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-06-25
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MIR. MODESTUS
. THE AXIS CHALLENGE
. FOUR FREEDOMS
. DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES
. AFTER THE WAR

The Axis challenge
To the United Democratic Nations
Is, in the last analysis, a challenge
of efficiency
That challenge raises again the ques-
ton
What principle of action best de-
velops national capacity?
The choice is presented in this world
struggle
Between the concentration of all
power in one person
And the exercise of executive power
over all national resources
Under control of limitations and ad-
vice imposed
BY elected representatives of the
people
That is the kernel in the big nut
which is now being cracked
x x x
The German people, especially
Have accepted that version of the
issue
They prefer the formula of the ir-
responsible autocrat-
They endorse the Hitler ridicule of
democracy and it's weakness
They expect that the democracies
will fall
And they expect to enjoy the fruits
of the Nazi triumph
X X X
The democratic peoples
Demand the free life, for the COM
mon man, the worker
Who holds an equal place before
law and government
Intelligence of the individual is i'm
piled in this claim
Superior intelligence is demonstrated,
if he makes good his claim
Capacity for cooperative effort is
implied in its maintenance
Democratic peoples recognize neces-
sity of executive action
But they believe there is more wis
dom in all the peoples opinions
Than there can possibly be in the
opinions of any one man or clique
On that they are stalking their prizes
of liberty
And they 90 to battle on their conf
dence-
In the efficacy of the Four Freedoms.
x X x
The Industrial Revolution began in
Great Britain
Free invention, and mass production
of tools and commodities
tIn. T,,s{ {n1
States of America
The fruits of these have been dis
tOrted to purposes of pure destruction
BY the barbaric reverts of Germany,
Japan, Italy
These latter did not originate their
equipments
They only adapted them to their
sinister purposes
Their mechanical intelligence is not
equal to that Of the democracies--
Who will surpass in one year their
secret six years production
In the factories of America and
Britain.
Victory will come in this war-
TO the side which can destroy life
and property most effectively
The dcmocracies have the most ma
terials, and the most men
They have the best engineering
brains in the world
They have n already stopped the
march of the AXiS-FaSciSt powers
From now on the big streams of
production will rise to flood tide
TO ovcrwhem the little millions of
Germans and JapS-
With the torrents of power from the
Thousands of Millions
OF peoples who want to be free.
X X X
Now comes one observation:
Both in Britain and the United
States
This accomplishment is the fruit of
cooperative effort
In which employers managers, work
erslabor unions
Have pooled all common resources Of
intelligence and goodwill
Thus, democratic capacity for co
operative effort for War
Has been proven to the hilt, and be
yOnd-
In this, the implemcntation of work
crS' intelligence by labor unions
Same kind of unions which Hitler
has destroyed wherever he could
Has been one of the keys to Situa-
tions otherwise impossible to unlock
PUT THAT IN THE PIPE YOU
ENPECT TO SMOkE-"AFTER THE
WAR;"