The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-02-15

Whoever expects democracy and
order, with everything sweetness and
| light, when the war ends, is dream
ing very fancy dream.
The brutalities of this war have
left mark too deep to be washed out
in one generation, let alone vanishing
tomorrow
The war between our states, as the
south likes to call it, was fairly well
conducted conflict, as wars go. But
the bitterness has not all vanished
yet.
But in this war murder has been a
mass production business with the
Germans. There have been great muir
der factories, where slaughter was
purposeful, systematic, thorough.
The Japs have been as brutal and
ruthless as have the Germans.
Barbarism has been more than a
word. 1t leaped from the dictionary
into hateful vengeful action.
The results, in bitter, hating, scar
ing memories, do not make for love
and tolerance and freedom as we
know it.
There is something about dictator
ship that robs human beings of the
sensibilities of decency.
And, if we do not kid ourselves, our
great co-battler, Russia, is not with
out the traits that accompany dicta-
torship. Russia has left deep scars
upon Poland, to name but one coun-
try. They are not going to vanish
when the guns cease firing.
This generation, because of the
greeds of the dictators, has built up
enough venomous hate to last through
the lifetime OF the youngest among
our populations of today, which is to
say, nearly century.
But entirely aside from the hates,
democracy and freedom have a long
road to travel
What about democracy in the vast
areas of Africa, in Iran and Iraq, III
Thailand, in Burma-and what about
it in India?
We may look for something ap-
proximating democracy in France and
perhaps in Italy, although if either of
these nations should go Communist,
as CAN happen, what then becomes
of democracy?
For Communism, as we know it IN
the world today, is NOT democracy.
However much we may praise Rus
sia as a fighting nation and the
highest praise is not too much we
need have no foolish illusions about
her political philosophy. And all Com
munism today will be like that. 1t
cannot be otherwise.
Then, to add to the grief of the
world, we have large segments Of
Latin America.
Who talks of democracy in the
Or, for that matter, who
talks of it in Brazil.
Mexico walks toward democracy.
Cuba had one really free election.
Uruguay has a free ballot. But in
how many other nations of this hemis-
phere aside from Canada and the
United States, do you find it?
Even in our own United States
there is plenty of ruthlessness left.
The strides have been tremendous,
but only a blind person would say
that the priceless heritage of democ-
racy is available to all, or is possess
ed by all.
What about our Negro population?
And what about our Latin American
workers, to hold the problem to
minimum?
There are still plenty of people
on other peoples necks.
claw and order" are still not for
all. For there is "order" - and
power" For others there is only "the
law"
We have moved forward, in the last
decade, amazingly. But let us know
and be bitterly conscious of the fact
that too much injustice remains-and
that the world is not going to blossom
like the rose, into full grown democ-
racy and freedom and blind-eyed
justice for all.
We - this battered world - must
battle and struggle and THINK our
way through many passionate con-
Ilict and many blind -mindedness be-
fore the sun shines for all.-CMW.