The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-04-09
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtched Out
The Truth
. TECHNOCRACY
. COSTLY VENTURE
. SMELLS LIKE FASCISM
. DEATH ON UNIONS

IecIllOCfdCy DODS up again.
Have you noticed? Full page adver-
tisements in many metropolitan news.
papers.
When propagandists go out in that
style it is costing somebody lot of the
coin of the realm.
The purpose back of that size eXpen-
ditures must be fairly serious.
The next time you see one of these
full page spreads read it carefully.
See whether you don't think it smells
like Fascism.
No place in the lingo of technocracy
does the word democracy" get in at
all.
The whole scheme seems to be de-
signed to put all power in the hands Of
scientific" men, with the rest of us
doing just about as we are told.
Now why does the propaganda of
technocracy bob up at this time?
X X X
You'll remember that we first heard
of technocracy during the dull days Of
the depression. We were told that it
came out of Columbia University, but
there seems no evidence that it's spon-
sors got nearer Columbia than to walk
past.
There is something of mystery about
the whole show and that mystery
ought to be dispelled.
Full page ads aren't all there is to
this resurgence of technocracy.
If you get around in the little towns
you will find men here and there who
will approach you gingerly, to see
whether you are prospect.
| If you indicate the least sympathy
they will lay it on and pretty soon
| you'll be asked to get some books about
the subject.
! There are plenty of books If you
were to show enough interest and be-
come convert or seem to become one,
you might get job as literature agent.
There's evidently strong organized
effort back of the current technocracy
drive. Such things seldom just happen.
X X X
Labor ought to shake a leg about the
| technocracy propaganda, because it
technocracy ever came upon us we
would have no more labor unions than
| there are in Hitler'S Germany.
| Technocracy is death on unions, just
as it is death on voting and such like
trappings of democracy and freedom.
| How any intelligent American can
fall for the technocracy lingo is just
about beyond understanding, but the
| fact is that they do fail and there's a
neucIeus in just about every town.
The whole thing smells, somehow;
and it ought to be looked into by some
one who is actuated by something more
than mere curiosity.
Is that too much to ask, when a
propaganda comes Snealling in--nO, not
Snealling, but just roaring in-telling
| us that democracy is no good and must
be Supplanted by a system under which
the bosses are special select few who
know how to run thingS?'
X X X
| We are at war for the very life OF
democracy and yet in the white heat of
this war to save democracy we find
| III lHll page aus ltlllllS US
that the very thing we are battling to
save is no good and must be Supplanted
by highly centralized authority that
will operate without consent of the
masses and with never vote being
cast.
This thing more than smells!
We ought to have a right to know
all of the facts about who is pushing
this anti-democratic propaganda. We
ought to know whose money pays the
big bills-they must be big bills, be-
cause page ads don't come cheap.
If we want technocracy then we
don't want democracy and if we don't
want democracy, then what are we
fighting for?
But we do want democracy, we in
tend to have it and keep it-and that
being the case why do the tcchnOcracy
propagandiSts have such free hand?
And, what shall we say of the big
newspapers that accept the full page
ads and the money that pays for them?
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