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

There's very homely old saying,
with the salty savor of Anglo Saxon,
which often Is not the most delicate
of languages 1t is: keep your nose
Clean
Never was there Il more appropriate
time for taking such advice.
Miami, Florida, has been held up to
more or less Scolding and ScOrn be-
cause great many wealthy persons
are there to spend the winter, plus
lot of money. Also because lot of
Northern automobiles are in Miami,
burning up gasoline which obviously
is in excess of the average persons
puny three gallons per week. That's all
true and the gasoline waStage is shock
ing.
But is might be Il good idea to take
a look at Washington, ID. c.
1t would be difficult. in Il days walk,
to find a city in which there is more
ostentatious and blatant spending than
the capital of the nation.
Two tremendously big parties have
been given recently, one of them hay
ing Il guest list of some 1000 persons.
Food of the most expensive type was
served. Drinks were plentiful.
Perhaps those two feaStS We're out
standing. Probably so. But day in and
,lay out. the business of "entertanin@'
GOES on, with prices high and food
extravagantly used and msued.
Plainly, it looks like hell in time of
war;
Mostly the splurging in Miami is
done by persons who are on vacation.
Some of the men playing along the
beaches have been driving themselves
for year or two, until its literally a
case of cut loose or bust It's not that
way with all, by any means, but surely
it is with some.
The Washington "entertainment' is
not for relaxation, mostly.
Washington hotels are filled with
persons who are in Washington be-
cause they want something which they
hope to obtain in Washington. Many of
these wants are genuine and Legitimate.
Frantic business and manufacturing
men are in town in the hope of getting
materials or work TO keep going.
Some of these visiting firemen be-
ieve that Il blowout here and there
may help their chances. They may be
right, in part. So, they start with cock
tails at anywhere from + O'Clock on.
But that's not the evil thing, the
sinister thing.
Washington is unwilling host to Il
lot of lobbyists who are in Washington
to promote plans and projects which
the wholly greedy and selfish. Some
are sinister. Some aim at securing
legislation others aim at the enormous
piles or orders for Il thousand things.
Back in depression New York had Il
crowd of more or less small town soil
citOrS called the Gimme Boys" Wash
ngt0n has the Gimme Boys on Il grand
scale Some pretty filthy stuff goes on.
If Mr.. MorgCnthau could sell Il SD
war bond for every SO per capita
drink and dinner party given in Wash
ngtOn he would have Il steady income
of nice fat proportions,
1t isn't Il question of whether a per
son has the right to spend his own
money fooli~hly if he wants to. No. But
in grim war time it is downright
offensive and nauScatn@ to Soe money
used in such g0bS for Il might lifo some
of which is pretty dirty and messy,
though some of it is just frivolous and
under-agc.
Miami is getting some deserved
ScOding even though most of it ought
to 90 To those who 90 from half tn"
states in the nation down 10 the moon
light paradise, taking TO that point the
wealth produced over many states for
a tour of the plush night clubs and the
we'll populated race tracks
But Washington is no better, no
cleaner, no more deserving of clean
bill of health. 1t is Il time for Ameri-
cans To keep their noses clean. Really
clean and wholesome. How many men
died today in Italy and in the Pacific?
-CMW.