The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-05-25

Martin Dies has made the headlines
again. And lot of people thought it
was a perfectly grand story.
Martin isn't going to run again.
After II years in Congress he doesn't
want to stick around until he gets to
be professional politician. And he
wants to get into private practice
again.
| J.. Lucifer Pow figured that labor is
after Martins scalp this year as never
before. j. Lucfer looked up the cleo
tion figures and the census figures
| from the Dies district and he found
| that practically handful of voters,
| compared to total population, had
elected Martin Dies in his winning
| runs.
Could it be that with a real battle
on, those sleeping voters might wake
up and sock Martin Dies right out of
the picture?
Anyway, J. Lucifer Pow who is no
politician at ALL thinks Martin Dies
was putting a good face" on the pic
ture when he announced that he was
through running for congress.
Martin Dies has been pretty good
at space grabbing. He had the luck to
find an issue and ride it to a fare-ye-
well. He started after the reds when
the reds were fair game for anybody
as matter of fact, when they really
were boring in.
But Martin didn't have good judg-
ment enough to stick to cases that
wouldn't back fire. And when it came
time to let up on the reds and aim all
guns, fore and aft, at the Nazi prOpa-
ganda and spy machine, Martin kept
on cunning mainly for communists
That's where he started missing the
boat.
Martin just couldn't desert his first
love.
SO man who might have really
rung the bell, went haywire through
lack of balance. He didn't shoot pre-
csiOn shots.
Out of the whole mess, j. Lucifer
Pow, lowering over his cracked barrel,
concludes that Martin Dies, like good
many others, suffered from an inherent
to keep up with the times He
kept on riding red horse after black
horses came along as leading con-
tenders.
Oh well, it has been that way with
a lot of people.
AS brilliant a dame as Cleopatra
didn't know when to quit. Neither did
her boy friend from Rome.
Neither did Hitler-as he will soon
find out with complete conviction.
But one thing has to be set down
to the credit of the man from the
part of that wide open space
called Texas. When he did ride to the
end of his rope he has evidently had
sense enough to know it, And, to go
back to Texas.
Martin Dies hasn't made record
at which posterity can point with
pride. He admits that he is through.
Dies had one asset which he prob
MS campaign to hit the 121a-em col
INNS. His 4-letter word name will fit
ntO any headline. That's not true of
names like Seznowski, or Weather
felter or HoOZnOtskevitch.
To have a name that fits easily into
the headlines helps "A lot in getting
hat name into prominence.
Instead of writing headlines like:
"SolOn Rants"
he headline writer's can blast out
With:
"Dies Vows EN-"
Maybe somewhere i'm there between
'ome of the lines hovers the shadow
If what it is that makes the difference
between notOrety and fame.
But anyway, Martin Dies is going
,ack to the plains of Texas. And there
ire halting memories of that old re-
rain to the effect that Few Die and
Zone Resign" to which we might add,
nless they have to-CMW.