The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-19
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtchet Out
The Truth
HUMAN BEINGS
o CAN TAKE IT
. BETTER THAN SLIPS
OR BUILDINGS

Wham go the torpedoes and bombs.
Down go buildings and ships.
1t seems that human beings can
stand more than buildings and ships
can stand.
The British keep on "taking it" and
giving it right back.
But how long? How long?
That's the question. There is much
said about the idea that the British
can not only stand it, but that they
will in due time take the offensive.
Then there is other talk-talk that
there is limit to what the British
can take and that American supplies
aren't going fast enough.
Who knows where the truth may
lie?
But not knowing - knowing
only that every plane and gun
and bomb continue in the awful
struggle, America must pour the
supplies over the ocean as fast
as possible and even faster.
Nothing little and petty and trining
can stand in the way! Nothing.
X X X
AS for the Italians-up to this mo-
ment of writing they are making
tracks backward mighty fast.
Maybe that can't last. Maybe
weight of numbers will force the
Greeks to a stop.
There are friendly jokes going
around now about the Greeks There
used to be jokes not so friendly.
But times change. People admire
courage. So now when someone says
they don't consider an Albanian town
really captured until Greek restaur-
ant has been established, it's friend
ly kind of joke which intends to mean
that the Greeks make the most of
their victories-that they can fight
like hell and also that they have an
eye to business.
They make jokes like that about
"down East Yankees.
Whoever thought the Greeks could
chase Mussolini's men all over their
newly conquered back yard?
been doing noble job. But for how
long?
That's the question. How long?
Let's hope it's long enough-but
KEEP THE MUNITIONS AND THE
PLANES ROLLING ACROSS THE
OCEAN!
There's a report-looks like maybe
it is straight-that the Nazis plan
smash bigger than anything yet in
about month A rolling, crushing
smash into which will pour every
thing they've got.
Well, we can only wait and see.
We know that as long as English
men can hold out that's what they'll
do.
But we know, too, now, that it's
our war-that we ARE IN up to our
ears and that there's no getting out
for us until Germany stops fighting,
licked.
On what terms we send planes and
munitions isn't the question. We can't
back down without joining the de-
feated nations.
Sound strange? Well, think it over.
When you get it that way, you
know we HAVE TO keep going, win
or lose-and we don't intend to lose.
X x X
SO, a nation that loves peace, wants
peace, is plunged into the greatest
war of all time, with the greatest
stake of all time-believe it or not.
Not formal war--but war just the
same. There is no more formal war.
Nations just start at each other in
whatever way seems to them best.
We started long ago-months ago.
In deeper every month.
1t had to be so. How else could
it have been? Ask Yourself
There will be quibbling about this
and that. Are wages right? Are our
planes any good? Are there unneces-
sary hitches and stallings? Is this or
that wrong?
Probably great deal is wrong.
That seems to be our way.
But whatever anyone thinks of the
situation, Uncle Sam is in the fix of
the old frontiersman who never dared
take his hand off his gun.
Believe it or not.