The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-12-07

Power politics. Spheres of infu-
ence. OIL.
We are hearing great deal about
these things. Too much for comfort.
Also we hear great deal about
cartels.
! And what we hear boils down to
the fact that greed is a long way
from dead
What's more, greed will remain.
Those who think greed is going to
fold up and disappear are just fool
ish.
But we can have a decent world
just the same.
What is needed to make decent
world is agreement to recognize LAW
as the ruling power.
And we must add to LAW the
power to ENFORCE law.
That's how it is in our national
affairs.
We have plenty of greed right here
among US. We have greed among
corporations and we even have greed
among unions.
But we have enforceable LAW and
those who transgress can be hailed be-
fore a court and given trial.
When Hitler began to torture other
nations with his greed there would
have been different story if he could
have been charged with an offense by
court functioning under interna-
tional authority and given trial,
with the sure knowledge that the
verdict was backed by power to en-
force.
Nations took the first great step
away from imperial authority when
they set law above the sovereign
law emanating from the PEOPLE.
1t cannot be otherwise among ma
tions; it must be that way, if we are
to have the promised better world.
Why should nation be allowed to
ravage, any more than an individual
is allowed to ravage?
National sovereignty must no
longer be allowed to cloak national
crime.
Unless it's to be the world against
the criminal nation, then we shall not
have gained all that we want to gain
out of this war;
The principle is simple, but to put
it into effect will require hard work
and perseverance, e
The idea of national sovereignty,
without any notifications, is so
strongly ingrained in nations that
any little yielding will come mighty
hard.
But even now, the reachings for
postwar power by individual nations
mark out for us with tremendous
emphasis the great need for world
of law-law that shall rest alike upon
all nations.
For long time the edge will be
with the strongest nations, in fact,
just as it is with powerful persons
under our own law.
But to set up the principle and
make the effort will be a great thing,
if it can be done.
The wealthy man, able to hire bat
teries of lawyers, pretty surely has a
better chance in court than the poor
man. But we have set firmly in our
nations constitution and in our law
the principle that all men are created
equal and that all are alike before
the bar of justice.
More and more the principle works
put in practice.
There will be no full recognition in
practice of such a principle in world
affairs.
But if the principle be established
md the effort made, we shall have
light to expect that more and more ,
he principle will work in practice.
II we go back to power politics,
without international restraint, or
without a proper regard for justice
md for equal rights, then we shall
lave fallen far short of what the
masses of the people the world over
want as a result of this war.
We shall not uproot and destroy
creed, but we can, by law, bring it
.nder control and punish its trans
,ressions.
That is a fair, proper and a
easonable goal. That is what we ex-