The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-15

Few subjects are more discussed just
now than the postwar world.
What kind of world is it going
to be?
Those who make their living by
Spilling ideas across the landscape
have plenty of ideas and each writes
or CRATES plentifully, each for his or
her personal pattern.
When the last war ended the col
umnist business was but bud on the
tree of writing.
There had been columns of humor,
but the political column was just in
the making.
Today political, or current events,
columning is big business. Very big
business.
So is radio communicating.
A columnist, or radio commentator,
has to be exciting to hold an audience.
The fires of discussion have to be
stocked every minute. The drabs die
young.
Commentators like Kaltenborn have
to express opinions
Commentators, like Pegler, if there
opinions.
Some fare we'll on torrid or acid
writing-like Pegler.
Some thrive on calm discussion and
obvious fairness, like Raymond Clap
per-
But these men, whatever their style,
have to be in there punching every
minute. They campaign right along
And, they carry weight
They will have a lot to Say-they
ARE having a lot to say-about the
coming world and its institutions.
X X
1t is quite possible that they may
WELD more power thar was welded
after that other war by the little
group of wilful men, who begged down
the League of Nations principally be-
cause they didn't like Woodrow Wilson
and campaign was just ahead.
X x
There is a political cabal knitting
its fabric together in Congress.
1t is getting ready to make a nasty
campaign. 1t has been pretty nasty
already.
BY and large it appears that the
columniSts and the radio commentators
have been fairer than the political
cabal in Congress.
The hangover of isolationism isn't
doing the country any good.
hp in
newspaper columns and the men who
eXpound views over the air have
great opportunity and perhaps they
will make a good deal of it.
Men? Yes-and women, too.
But in columning, it may be dis
turbing, but it seems true to say that
the men are doing lot better job
than is being done by the women.
You've got to be either consistently
not under the collar, or consistently
fair and penetrating. And you've got
to write or talk to the point, without
a lot of fancy phrases that get tangled
up in each other.
X X X
Well, what about this postwar
world?
Truly, nobody yet knows very much.
However, put this down: If it isn't Il
world in which the common man has
a better chance than before, if it isn't
Il world in which there is greater
security from war, then we shall have
more warS-and without waiting an
other % years.
There had better be no betrayal by
leaders. And there had better be no
little political cliques determined to
rule or ruin which generally means
ruin.
The radio commentator and the
newspaper columniSt can play great,
a helpful role.
They surely can smoke out the little
ShunkS who, for want of size, make
it up in stink.
Our first job is to win this war, but
at least Il policeman on guard to see
to it that, while we win the war, little
groups of Self-SeekerS and crooks don't
get the SkidS so creased for ruin that
the fruits of victory will be threatened
even before the Axis signatures Of sur
render are aliiXed.-CNIW.