The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-08

There is great to-do about the
necessity of unity in prosecution OF the
war.
But unity is awfully hard to get.
The administration makes mistakes,
here and there Promptly the political
opposition climbs all over its frame.
That statement cannot be questioned
fairly That there is political opposl-
ton would be admitted by the partisan
opponents.
With the fate of civilization hang
ing in the balance, it would seem Il
frightful thing to put political war
fare in the balance against prosecu-
ton of the war.
But there it is, for all to see. This
isn't a Democratic war, or a Republi-
can war. 1t is civilizations war for
survival.
1t happens that the war came dur
ing the presidency of Mr.. Roosevelt.
Under our system of elections, there
he stays until the end of his term. He
is the leader
in the war. We are on the road to
victory.
But we aren't sure-fOOted enough on
that road to permit US to fool around
with internal and internecine squab-
bling.
Everybody clamOrs for unity, but
great many are unwilling to Subor-
dinate personal or partisan aims to
point that will permit that unity.
| 1t is about time that some of our
| politicos got some sense into their fool
heads and got their mind on the single
aim of winning the war.
| In the old days of Diaz in Mexico
there was reactionary party called
| the ScentificOs. They were supposed to
be scientific. In reality they were
| welded to the past, to it's enslavement
and iniustices. We have our Scienti-
| fcos in the United States today, YAM
| mering about scientific plans for the
war and the future, but mentally and
| spiritually welded to the past.
X X X
| No nation on either side has a per-
feet administrative record in this war.
| The conflict is too huge, too all-engulf-
ing, to staggering in size and scope, to
permit perfection.
We are, however, doing We'll Not too
well, but well. If the old isolationists
and the newly budding political am
| bitionists can but forget their little
greeds for time we shall do even
better in the war.
A goodly part of the dissension
stems from the isolations, current and
| former.
When the dodo bird became extinct
there probably were those who went
out hunting for years, in the hope of
finding one more dodo bird.
| SO it is with the iSolationistS. Isola
ton is of the past. But the devotees
seem intent upon finding one more sign
of life. They will not quit. They will
not face the realities.
X X X
Either we shall unite on the propo-
sition that isolation is dead, that there
is but one war and that it is every
body's war, to win by whatever means
it takes. or we shall have another and
more devastating war.
WeStbroOk Pegler does not seem to
realize these facts But Raymond
Clapper does realize them.
The distinction there is the dstinc
ton that marks all politics. The isola
tionistS in both parties are birds of Il
| feather. And the feather is the wrong
color, too.
There are plenty who would rather
win over Roosevelt than win over
| Hitler and HirohitO.
1t is all Il very sad commentary on
American politics, in this freest of all
nations, this best possible of all coun-
tries.
In Russia or Germany there can be
no such opposition. We must tolerate
it, but also we must invegh against it.
We NEED unity for VICTORY. -
CMW.