The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-14

| There doesn't seem to be much point
to raising the. issue of the city politi-
cal bosses, as some are inclipde to do,
pointing out that such persons as
Hague, Kelley, ct al are in the Demo
cratic camp.
You can line the bosses all UP and
you'll find that maybe the pot better
not start calling the kettle black.
The Republicans have their full
share of shady characters backing the
party And they have more than their
share of great corporations and what
some disrespectful persons have called
the filthy rich.
| The worst thing about accepting the
support of political bosses is that such
alliances tend to perpetuate the boss in
| power
AS for Franklin ID. Roosevelt, the
way to judge him is on the basis of
HIS performance. He has had city
boss support in every campaign.
thing to repay the retinue of Republi-
can bosses is an unknown quantity.
Maybe nothing.
The boss issue is scarcely worth
wasting ink on, as far as the national
campaign is concerned. You might as
well say that neither candidate should
accept the support of horse track
owners which one or both of them GER
tainly will do, perhaps willy nilly.
BY and large, such minor issues are
used to smear the main issues.
Persons who don't do their own
thinking now and then get carried
away by such smears and as result
vote the wrong way.
Politics, in many ways, is about the
lowest form of life. SO many politi-
clans seem to believe that they are by
no means bound to tell the truth in a
campaign, if lie will serve better, or
if a half truth will be more deadly,
as it often is.
Our greatest issue lies in how to
manage the end of the war and the
months after the war. What kind of
domestic reconstruction are we to have
and what kind of a peace?
After World War |, the American
nation carried the torch for idealsm
and it was given the works by desper-
ADDE'S abroad and at home.
There is darned little reason to eX-
pect anything alse this time.
From abroad there is too much ind-
cation of wish to rest the peace on
power politics; at home there is "A lot
of evidence of support for that idea.
If we haven't had enough of power
politics, then we are looking right
down the gun barrels of the next war.
But, with the greatest issues of all
time facing us, we have politicians ig
norant enough selfish enough and cor
rupt enough to dare to drag red
behring's across the trail, so that the
election may be decided on any but the
real issues.
We have some labor men who are
just as narrow and selfish and stupid
as are to be found anywhere outside
the ranks of labor
1t isn't hard TO point out labor ofli-
cals who, whatever their lip service
may be, are doing their real work on
the basis of whether or not they got
what they wanted out of particular
local situation.
Some may say that is natural but
whether it is or is not natural, il is
mighty small politics in the
greatest world catclysm of this or any
other decade.
The American people as whole
will not be fooled this time,
)ut if they are not fooled it will not
Dc because some of them have not been
'oolish-and selfish-and stupid.
There are plenty who scott at ideal
SIN. But if we lose our idealism where
10 we 90 from there? Ii we do not run
lp flag and follow that flag, what
10 we do? If we do not dream a dreaII
md battle for its fulfillment, what do
We do? The answer is easy. We sink
nto darkness, hopeless, Shall we do I
hat ?-CMW.