The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-21
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtched Out
The Truth
. SUBS OFF COAST
. SUGAR RATIONING
. CARDS
. DRIVE HOME FACTS

~ - Jaw
Last Sunday friends of mine stood
on shore at an Atlantic Coast point
and watched our planes go HURTING
down out of the skies, dropping bombs
in an effort to blast an enemy sub
marine that had just fired a torpedo
at Il freighter.
The torpedo was a miss and the
freighter kept hustling right along.
What happened to the sub is Il guess,
and that is not the point.
The point is that the war has been
for some time within sight of our
Atlantic %Seaboard!
Not so long ago there were those
who said, "why should we worry on the
Atlantic coast; the Japs al never
get us here"
Well, the subs off the Atlantic sea-
board aren't Japs. They're NaZis!
And they have been sinking ships
faster than we are building them.
X X
But what brings this coastal war
fare closer to the average man and
woman than the sinking of ships off
shore is gasoline r%ationing!
Because the Nazis have been blasting
our tankers to the bottom, we on shore
are forced off the road by a gasoline
rationing so tight that it almost keepS;
the old .jalopy in the garage.
No story of the heroic conduct OF Il
stricken American crew could haye
been half so forceful in driving home
the facts of this war as the n pen-
stroke that signed us up for gasoline
ratiOning.
Sugar rationing was the first result,
but that wasn't the shock that we got
with the gasoline cards. For the sugar
card, after all, allows us enough sugar
for essential uses.
The gasoline card is just about a
complete Knockout.
Ladies and gentlemen, there is a war
on-awfully close.
X X X
We shall win this war.
But before we win it we shall have
to make many more Sacrifices.
There will be more r%atiOning. And
We'll take it, too, making our Sacri-
fices as our contribution to victory.
There is one wish that might be
wished in relation to the orders from
Washington that cut down our food
and our travels. 1t is that Leon Hen
derson might issue his orders with a
little less swashbuckling-a little less
of the air of a commando chief telling
EN-" to take it and like it.
Some men call for sacrifices and be
praised for doing it. Others cannot ask
for Il light for Il cigarette without
kicking up resentment. 4
That's just by way of passing advice
to Mr.. Henderson, who not so many
long years ago was really no great
shakes of an economist.
Our sacrifices will be made, thor
Oughly and to the end of the road.
Because now we all know we've got
to win the war by a knockout!
X X X
We've been speaking of the Atlantic
Seaboard. Because it was on the East
ern coastal area that folks though
they were going to be free from attack.
But there's the Pacific coastal area,
tOO-oh, yes, very much so.
But the Pacific coast has been look
ing for it, expecting it-and getting
set to hand it right back.
Pacific cities have had their alarms,
they're known the approach of enemy
planes. And if Japan can possibly make
the grade her yellow hordes will drop
bombs on our Pacific coast cities in
bitter anger over the bombing of
Toxic.
How hollow are the old phrases
about three thousand miles of ocean,
between us and our enemies!
How the appraisers and the fifth
cOlumniStS played upon that false idea
to lull us into doing business with
Hitler and not building an army and
Il navy.
But we're all awake now. And what
ever comes to us from the enemy, the
enemy will be hit right smack back.
again and again, until every enemy i'll
Knocked out cold.