The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-02-03

One issue tnat is gong 10 nave 10 NC
faced right soon is the race issue.
TO say that there is no race issue
is to go blind to Il fact-and Il big,
important fact.
There is Il race issue involving Jews,
another involving the Negroes, another
involving Japanese - and there are
others. Each is different, but each
contains certain basic colorationS.
Perhaps the most dangerous issue is
that involving the Jews, but it is
nevertheless difficult to put the black
issue second. Both are dynamite and
both exist to startling degree.
OF course the Nazi propaganda ma
chine has its hand in the dirty business
of fomentinS hates to bring races and
religions into bitter conflict.
The hate breeders hide their hand
they don't say they are Nazi propa-
gandiStS.
Who doesn't remember the Nazi eff
fort to pour hate upon the President
on the ground that he was Il jew? OF
course even the haters know that
Roosevelt is of Dutch stock. If he were
/; Jew he undoubtedly would be proud
of it.
But the haterS first smear the Jew
ish race and then they try to pin the
label of Jew on individuals whom they
would destroy.
The amazing thing is that it works
too well and too often. Go here and
there into little groups and listen for
the results.
Some of my good friends are Jews
and they are Ok, but as Il race |
don't like them
"Oh, there are good Jews, but not
many
There are too many Jews in public
Office"
"Oh, l wouldn't want to live among
Jews
Those and Il score of variations are
the things you hear too often.
We had better stop this Internal
propaganda of hate and distruSr.
Read Under Cover" and see how it
is spread.
We had better get an intelligent un-
derstanding OF the Negroes among us,
TOO.
Nobody has to associate socially
with anyone of any race unless he or
she wants to. OF course propagandi>tS
Of both sides make Use Of the social
equality issue But by and large it is
Il smoke screen.
But economic conditions do have to
be faced. Economic oppression has 10
be ended somehow, sometime and
soon.
Segregation into crowded, filthy
areas has to be ended, somehow, some
time-and soon.
Dynamite doesn't explode with force
unless it is walled in. Then ii blows
hardest against the strongest wall.
We have to make up our minds soon
whether or not there are any good
japanese in the United States.
a great many white Americans be
leve quite sincerely that there are no
good japanese descendants. But the
Army evidently doesn't agree. for there
are Americans Of Japanese descent in
the Army. Reports seem to Indicate
that they are doing Il good job in Italy.
If we aren't careful we can com"
out of this war With Il lot of little and
extremely vicious wars at home, among
the races that make up this country.
Race wars are horrible affairs, leaving
deep and ugly scars.
We can have some sense and under
standing and tolerance, or we can have
hate, the cheapest commodity there i>
TO get hate requires no brains at al!
--nO thinking, no effort. It requires
nothing but yielding to passions that
are mean and Sncaking and dirty.
No race is composed entirely OF nice
people, or Of clean people or of honest
and honorable people. None can point
Il very honest finger at any other.
Let's quit being gullibIc victims Of
enemy propa aganda.-tMW.