The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-12-16

Great has been the hullabaloo over
the way the news broke from Cairo
and Teheran. First Reuters put over
nasty scoop then Tass did ditto
American newspapermen gnashed
their teeth at first and then they yelled
out loud.
Elmer Davis did protest that was
more vigorous than tasty.
Maybe the thing did smell a bit and
surely it was raw deal for American
newspapers. 1t shows that there has
been Il lack of coordination some
where; or that maybe somebody just
won't play ball.
However, it is hard to see how any
great damage has been done.
One thing that was accomplished by
the ruclluS over the news mess was to
help take the public mind from the
dismal Congressional performance on
the food subsidy issue. Could anybody
have wanted it that way, does anyone
suppose?
Speaking now for moment about
the subsidy issue, it should be noted
that the newspapers which howl so
loudly against any subsidy are them
selves the beneficiaries of a subsidy.
Newspapers almost always have had
a subsidy in the form of lower post
age rate.
There is nothing new about sub
sides. Our air lines We're built up by
mail subsidies which enabled them to
operate when they couldn't have done
it on passenger revenues. Is anybody
sorry today?
But the food subsidy crosses up Il lot
of interests that care a lot more for
their own profit than they do for the
national welfare-and for that we can
all be sorry.
They have a lawful right to state
their case and to speak freely, but they
ought not be permitted to cover up the
real issue. And politicians ought not be
so cheap and filled with hate that they
permit such a smelly red herring 10
cover a trail so wide and so revealing
Of its source and purpose.
1t may be that we are now getting
just a moderate taste of the hates that
will belch loose when the war ends
with Germany.
That war does hold in leash some of
the voices that are tainted with the
garlic of hatred in the political realm.
1t is noteworthy that many of the
voices that blast away at every oppor-
tunity to hurt the Administration also
are the voices that grippe at labor
whenever opportunity offers.
Labor has done some things un-
automatically and some of its spolleS-
men have been brash and maybe bit
TOO big for their britches. But labor
has done one of the worlds biggest and
best jobs in turning out the biggest
heap of war materials ever turned out
at any place any time
President Green is doing one of the
best things he had done in protesting
against slave labor by Germans after
the war.
Whatever the prOVOcatiOn, slavery
can do nobody anything but harm. 1t is
wrong in principle and harmful in
practice.
Enslavement of workers is NOT the
way to punish the German nation. II
there is any hope of Il sane and demo-
cratic Germany it must lie in the
workers of that nation.
There must be dire punishment for
Germany and it is coming soon, but
the terrible wrongs that Germany has
done cannot be remedied by the wrong
Of slavery enforced by any nation or
nations now fighting to destroy the
Nazi regime root and branch.
That the suggestion of forced labor,
or slavery, should have come from
Russia doesn't add anything to its
attractiveneSS, nor, for that matter
does it make the proposal any worse.
1t is just all wrong in principle, re
gardleSS of the Sourcc.-CMlW.