The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-22
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtched Out
The Truth
. TAXES FOR EQUIPMENT
NOW is TINE TO HOWL
. FAIL TO GET CALL
. IT'S UP TO YOU

No days slow descending SUM- now
a-days but sees some new move begun
to smash dictatorship as way OF life.
More taxes for more war equipment.
More workers needed and great move
mentS of men planned to get them
where they're needed. Mobilization of
machinery on Il never-equalled scale
mapped out.
The united nations map out Il world
strategy and Il world production plan.
Meanwhile our dogs of war stalk the
seven seas, doing damage Of which we
may not learn for many a week.
And our soldiers, sailors and ma
rines perform deeds that should for
ever silence the yap that as a people
we have gone soft.
But still, despite all the evidence
that exists, great many Americans
do not yet understand that they, per-
sonally, must take this war seriously,
as Il paramount affair.
Not many days ago for eXample) 4
rather intelligent East Coast citizen
scotfed at the possibility of air raids
Said he ''the Japs have got to get past
the Pacific Coast before they can get
to this side of the continent" He had
completely forgotten about the Nazis!
A recent magazine published a map
of possible Nazi air routes for bombing
the United States. 1t would curl your
hair!
This war is the war of every man,
woman and child. There is no escape,
no matter how much some folks try to
wish themselves out of danger or out of
responsibility
For the good of the nation the
awakening of a full and true sense of
responsibility is the more important
We must feel that everything we have
or can do is called for. 1t is peoples
war, to the limit
There is mass of bungling, to be
sure. Much of that is thus far being
overlooked, partly because too many
people aren't yet taking the war seri-
OuSly.
Later they will howl to heaven, Won
dering why such blunders We're per-
mitted.
The time to howl is now. But also
now is the time to do something about
it.
Civilian defense is being played with,
like Il fascinating toy, by too many.
From the top in New York on down
TO hundreds of communities, there are
vast and amazing blunders
A vast reservoir of energy has been
tapped and thousands of men and wom-
en are doing volunteer work to the
limit of their time and ability. But
from the administrative end there is
too much tangling of operations, too
little system, too many loose ends.
In one East Coast city a recent
blackout went through with more than
100 block wardens never getting their
call to duty. These calls to duty 90
by phone, tanning out from focal
points. If focal point fails that whole
fan is out of action
X X x
In some places political favorites
have been given the focal jobs. In
others ambition for publicity has led
some to plunge in and grab the key
places.
SO, where high grade executive and
organizing ability is needed second and
third grade is on the job
These things will iron out in time,
but time may be the most priceless
thing we have.
This is Il peoples war and the re-
sources of the nation are being mobi-
iiZcd. One great segment of that mobi-
liZati0n is the civilian defense opera
ton.
1t is too vital to be sluggel to half
sensibiIity by either politics or i'll
competence.
Back of it all is Il citizenship re-
Sponsibility that puts it up to you, and
you and you.
Organized labor with its genius for
organizing. could do something big
about this great and vital problem.
Why not?-CMW.