The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-08-12

Why do so many of us lambaste our
professors? TO heap ridicule upon them
is pretty much the rage in current
Washington. 1t is a curious indication
of the topsy7turvy nature of the times
Raymond Moley, once the fair haired
collegiate in the White House and ad-
jacent office buildings, turns his guns
on Vice President Wallace, using ad-
jectives rejecting upon Mr. Wallace's
eruditon, instead of arguments of fact
against what Mr.. Wallace said.
Now it is true that often there is Il
great gulf between the thinking of the
'intellectuaI' who knows theory and
that of the practical man who has
lived and worked with the problem.
But it is the current rage to eX-
cOriate education, not in terms that
ARE simple, but getting to that same
point just the same.
1t i'll becomes a nation that pays
more for education than any other on
earth and that, by and large, gets its
moneys worth.
Back in the days OF MIA there was
Il young graduate who ran hOg-wild
in his sheep-skinned eXuberance. But
there was an older professor whose
long thought-out theory was of inn
mense value, uniformly sound.
1t isn't educatio itself that calls for
brickbats; it is the misuse of educa-
ton.
Some of those who would most read
lily sell the country down the river
have been those who have had little
school education, but great deal of
practical" war politics or business
experience.
On the other hand, some of the
smoothest workers in Washington to-
day are highly educated and very
suave corporation lawyers.
Again, it is favorite Washington
sport today to pan and rib every man
or woman who expresses Il thought
about the kind of world we want when
the war is over. TO think and express
a hope for betterment is to bring down
the seedlings of the ''practicar' fellows
who see, in better world Il simmer
chance to get theirs"
There's saying that its free
country" and to be sure, it is.
And the best and SureSt way to keep
it free is to strive for Il better world
when this war is over.
We need the thinking of men who
have been trained to think. And we
need to quit this senseless and childish
yapping about men who have gone
through the years Of study leading to
what is known as education.
The cheapest way to bring down an
opponent is to do it with ridiculc.
Those with the least brain power use
that cheap way. 1t suits their lack of
brains, and it appeals to multitudes
who also lack brains.
That the majority can be thus led
astray seems impossible, but stranger
things have happened in times of emo
tional strain, such as these.
If we do not build, after this war,
some better structure for the world,
then we may easily enough cease to be
Il free country" in which cheap and
yapping detractOrS can spout in free
dom and abandon.
Some of the current Side-SWiping
comes from men who themselves be-
long among the 'intellectualS." Again
Raymond Moley can be used as an
example. SO it may not be strange that
he turns to use the same dirty weapons
which were not so long since used
against him.
''Starryeyed' is another stock
phrase of those who lack the ability
to create phrases of their own.
If you talk about a better world you
are set down as 'starry-eyed.'
Old Christopher Columbus surely
was Il starry-eyed gent; and so was
Isaac Newton, but look what they left
behind!
Abraham Lincoln was Starry-eyed,
but decent men blush for what some
of his more "practicaI' successors did
after his passing.
Let's be fair and decent. Let's have
an end to cheapneSs. Let's think
CMW.