The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-04

and take rather philosophically what
comes their way. And yet no person
can quite imagine the confusion, the
utter bewilderment, the destruction in
one of the really devastating raids
such as London and Coventry and
Plymouth and Birmingham and Liv-
erpool have been subjected to in this
war.
Aside from the taking of life and
manning of limb, there is ever pres
ent the fire, the bursting of water
mains and gas, the possibility of
short circuits in the electric lines and
many other grave and serious
dangers.
All arrangements for cooking are
put out of business, water is unavail-
able, food is unobtainable-al life has
to stop still until people dig out from
the rubble and begin to carry on
again from the place where they
were.
And so they have invented a can
teen, a hospital, mobile convoy serv-
ice which moves into the community
where the blitzkrieg has done its
devastating work. Attempts are
made at once to provide the neces-
sary medical and other services as
quickly and as efficiently as possible
Water, food, kitchen utensils and the
like are rushed to the scene of
tragedy and there, under the charit-
able folds of the Stars and Stripes,
humanity begins Immediately its
work.
Then and there these mobile units
provide for the people in the local
community, who have been bombed
out of their homes or who have suf-
fered injuries or who are thirsty or
in need Of clothing, the kind of as
sistance which is Immediately needed
and in the quantity which is required.
Except for these mobile convoy units
containing food and water supply and
all other essential facilities, not only
would hopeless confusion abound but
disease and disaster would spread
widely as well.
AS a result of controls which have
been set up by these units, all this is
largely taken care of and we have un-
mistakable evidence of the remarkable
and splendid manner in which human
ingenuity has been able to meet hui
man needs following Immediately the
inhuman deeds perpetrated upon an
innocent and helpless people.
1t is this kind of service-the hu-
man service of mother to mother
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father to father at the moment OF
the desperate need of the word-that
prompted the formation of the Amer
lean Labor Committee to Aid British
Labor and for which American labor
has been raising funds to send over
This committee and it's work have
not only received the wholehearted
encouragement and support of organ
lied labor but of all deeply concerned
in the safeguarding of the ideals and
institutions Of freedom and de-
mocracy. 4
In addition lit has received the full
and unequivocal endorsement of Presi-
dent Franklin d. Roosevelt. In let
ter addressed to the chairman of the
committee he said:
"The American Labor Committee tc
Aid British Labor deserves to have
and, | am sure, will have the whole
hearted and enthusiastic support OF
Americans. 1t is fitting and proper
. that such movement should be
initiated by labor itself and it is nat.
ural that all groups should follow
this leadership in making the highly
commendable effort a success.
British workers are laboring cease
accustomed to this new way of life