The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-04-10
Straight From
Washington
BY STEPHEN M. YOUNG
Congressman at Large, Ohio

Washington-Th Republican Natl
onal Committee met in Washington
last week. They decided the strategy
for the opposition party is to wait
for the breaks and in the meantime
play ball on national defense meas
urcs that do not involve active par
ticipation in the war abroad. Speakers
expressed the view that the breaks
are expected to arrive when it be-
comes necessary to impose higher
taxes. Also speakers pointed out that
in 1918 the Congressional election
went against the Administration al
though President Wilson called for
the election of Democratic Congress.
Republican leaders expressed the view
that if this nation becomes active in
the war many things may occur to
cause the Administration to become
unpopular and therefore the policy
should be to do nothing except watch
and wait for the breaks.
March of Civilization
Europe will be the poor house of
the world after this war. 1t will be
torn to shreds, due to the blindness
Of its leaders. Civilization has moved
and is moving westward The mi
grafton of people to the Western
Hemisphere is the final phase of a
movement that started thousands Of
years ago in the valley Of the Tigers
and the Euphrates. 1t moved to
Phoenicia and then to Egypt, to
Greece, to Rome and it has passed its
peak in France and England. The col
lapse Of Europe will not result from
the invasion Of Barbarians such as
caused the destruction Of the Roman
Empire. Destruction is coming from
within-Hitler is seeing to that.
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1t was happy birthday for the
Civilian Conservation Corps. The c.
C. c., now eight years old, was the
butt Of jokes back in 1888. Hoover
made monkeys out of us and now
Roosevelt gives US trees to climb"
said Huey Long. Some Republican
Congressman termed it "Roosevelt's
tree planting folly" The C. c. C. is,
in fact, the greatest constructive So
cial welfare work ever done by any
government. The average age of en-
rollees is a little over IS. There are
two hundred and seventy-fv thous-
and boys and young men in the c. c.
c. ranks at this time 1t is the great
est peaceful mobilization Of youth the
world has ever seen. Nearly three
million young men have learned to
live healthfully in barracks. They
have been trained as wood workers,
welders, telephone men, surveyors,
radio operators, machinists, photo
graphers, cooks, parachute jumpers,
operators of tractors and automotive
equipment while the youth Of Ger
many have been goose-stepping. Con-
gress seeks to expand the activities of
the c.. c. c. so that more enrollees
will undergo specialized training. At
that, the C. c. C. now operates 20
baking and cooking schools, 10 radio
schools, one aviation mechanic school
anu illdilI DOlS dIC III" CHSdSSi III
direct preparedness projects. Two c.
G.. C. companies are constructing an
airfield in Alaska. Since the birth Of
the C. C. C. the boys have constructed
more than forty-five thousand bridges,
one hundred thousand miles Of truck
trails, six million erosion check dams,
planted two billion trees and spent
over six million man-days fighting
forest fires. The boys have strung
eighty-fve thousand miles Of tele-
phone lines, have prepared siXty-eight
airplane landing fields and erected one
hundred and one radio stations Many
Congressman are asking this ques
view of changed conditions
in the world should we not provide for
optional military training in the c.
C. CT"