The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-10-03
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hotchet Ou'
The Truth
. MAKING SQUAWK
Q BUSINESS OF EVERYBODY
OUTFITS CHISEL YOUTHS
Q HEAL WATER BLISTERS

There are reports to the effect that
the young men of conscription age
are making a terrible squawk about
registering and that the members of
the National Guard are making a par
ticularly loud equawk, on the ground
that they are being called to a SER
vice for which they didn't enlist.
There may be something to these
reports.
1t is true that many who enlisted
in the Guard did so for reasons that
had little or nothing to do with any
very serious or prolonged service.
However, it must be true that very
few enlisted without knowing the law
governing service in the Guard.
But there is something rather seri-
Gus to be said about the whole SUBJ
ject-and that is that IF there is
this large squawk, then somebody is
to blame.
We think the blame lies in two
main sources.
X X x
In the first place, the United States
faces a situation next door to war,
whether anybody likes it or not. In a
situation like that of today there isn't
any monkey business.
1t isn't the job of any particular
group or set to defend the nation.
1t is the business of EVERY
BODY.
Now for the first blame. That lies
slam bang on the shoulders of news
papers that have failed to print the
truth about how serious the situation
is. Many Of them have played poll
tics with the fate of the nation-and
they are still doing it.
And for the second blame. That goes
to the propaganda agencies including
such outfits as the National Council
for the Prevention of War, which has
it's roots in the last war in a way that
will be remembered by everyone who
remembers the snares and snags of
that period.
1t includes, too, the professional So
called youth organizations. These are
the creations of men and agencies long
past youth, for purposes that haven't
damned thing to do with the welfare
of either youth or the nation.
These professional youth outfits
carry on propaganda intended to
chisel youth into a position of NO re-
sponsibilities and a perverted, crazy
idea of what they ought to do about
life in general, generally on some
thing for nothing basis.
A good idea for the youths who
fall into the traps of these propaganda
outfits would be grand kick planted
at about the center of the afternoon
Of their trousers, which generally are
carefully given dirty and sloppy
look.
Put the American Youth Congress
as No. l in that group.
These sleazy groups generally fight
like blazes to keep away from any
thing that looks like responsibility or
work or real thinking. A lot of them
smell about as bad as any other racket.
X X X
And so, when the nation gets in
situation where there is danger and
where some real effort is required to
| keep it free and safe and democratic,
the yell goes out from lot of soft
throats that they don't wanna do any
thing like that. No, by golly, that
isn't what THEY were cut out for.
1t may turn out to be a grand thing
for these young fellows to have to do
hitch in training. To be faced with
serious tasks may heal the water blist-
ers on some Of their brains.
There should be full regard for just
causes of exemption. But there should
be darned little pampering of the
babies who have carried their mental
infancy up into the age period covered
by the selective service law and the
age limits in National Guard service.
Americans are going to have to
serve and sacrifice and they might
as well get used to the idea. We'd
better do it under our own direction
than under Hitler's direction. And
now!- !-CMW.