The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-24
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Come spring. Comes conflict
Comes not much of any addition
to the common store of good judg
ment, objective contemplation o.
facts.
Then, why comes spring? Oh
| just because it has to come anC
can't be stopped.
Comes, later, on, summer, too
with more heat, maybe in tempers
as well as in air temperatures.
Does anybody stop to wonder
where we will wind up up unless
we quit batting the ball up higher
and higher all the time?
If you tie a spool on the end OF
string and then twirl it around
your finger, you'll find that the
spool will stop whirling and &c
dangling when it gets up to your
finger. Progress ends. Speed ends
Movement becomes a mere and
feeble danglingf without direction
or purpose.
You can have a lot of amuse-
ment out of contemplating that
notion, applying it to economics,
etc. Want to try?
X X y
Right now the spool is getting
fairly close to the finger.
On steam engines there is a
governor that evens up the speed
and keeps the thing running even
ly, without jerks, without ups and
downs.
To have that kind of rigidity,
that kind of inflexible governor, in
our economic life we should have
to have dictatorship and even then
we wouldn't have smooth going.
But candemocracy contrive no
method of avoiding economic in
sanity? Cannot the people, out of
collective intelligence, do some
planning for stability, without
cramping progress?
A lot has been done, through
such measurer as taxation, the
Securities Exchange Act, and
few other measures.
But we seem to have a long
road yet to travel.
If we take to long about get
ting something done we may loose
the chance.
We dare not lose the chance,
for in doing that we may lose
everything that is meant by the
flag of freedom! 1t can happen.
We shall not get on the right
track under any such leadership
as that attempted by Robert Taft,
who gets cold shivers at anything
that sounds like an idea for the
of the masses of the
people.
We shall not go forward through
that merely set up bar
riers and provide no remedies.
We shall not move onward
through laws that say merely that
you may not strike.
We need something besides neg
ative thinking.
We need people in high places
who dare to think big. Those who
think little, or who think back
wards are pretty dangerous.
We need people who will NOT
do the crazy things that are be-
ing done by those who are tearing
the Labor Department to pieces,
mostly out of stupidity and large
of purely personal spite.
What spectacle!
Here is one plank for some
oody's platform: Introduce more
and more democratic practice in
The solving of employment re-
lations-yes, and in some spots
put more of it into the running of
Nobody gave anybody right to
nave union as a piece of personal
and nobody gave any |
group the right to deny a larger |
,oice by more persons in shaping |
he pattern of employment re-
ations.
If the people aren't endowed
With sufficient education, then lets
vhoop it up for more education.
Democracy cans collective
collective decisions, col
ectively approved remedies, The
ield of responsibility must include
he total of people.
When we start to restrict the
ield we are going the wrong way.
A few politicians and large
lumber of corporation gentlemen
iced to find that out.
When we become fully aware
f that fact and when we make
hat fact come alive, then we shall
Ne moving much faster toward
hat thing called security, together
With intelligently conceived prog
ess. AS has been said: 1t is later
han you think!