The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-12-03

Every now and then, in the midst
of battle reports, there comes the urge
to think of a postwar world.
OF course, unless the Allied Nations,
or the United Nations, to use the
proper term, win complete victory, the
postwar world will be something from
which to flee, something fearsome to
contemplate.
But the United Nations Will win
and there WILL be postwar world
of freedom and progress and decency
and of marvellous things for the use
of men and women who no longer fear
the toll of global war.
| What sort of life will there be when
this war is over?
Nobody can answer with any degree
of satisfaction, or with any degree of
accuracy.
But some things we do know-and
they are mostly good.
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We shall have to pay the debt of
war-the price of freedom. Perhaps
that will be a heavy burden, but it
will not be too heavy.
Beyond that this one thing we do
know: The world we had before this
war loosed its stream of blood will
never be known again.
Some certain things are ended, fin
ished, done for keeps.
Among those things is the kind of
exploitation that made our earlier
billiOnaire barOns. That's done with.
And as that thing checks out, there
must come higher level for the 90
| per cent who never before had any
certainly secure level and who, often
and in great numbers, were pitched
face downward into degraded depres-
sion, from the depths of which hope
rose again only because there is an
inner we'll spring in the human frame
that keeps hope alive, even against all
of the evidences visible to reason.
| We must expect a higher average
level of life-and we shall have it,
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We shall have new beauties in the
things around us, when the engineers
and the chemists and the planners of
manufacture can get back to the pur-
suits of peace.
| We shall have new homes of new
design, filled with new joys, in which
the work of living in homes will be re
duced to point where it will have
lost it's drudgery aspects.
We shall have automobiles that will
look not at all like the models we now
nurse along so carefully. In them will
be new power plants and on them will
be new kind of tires. These new cars
will be beautiful and wonderful.
And we shall take to the air, just
for the sheer fun of it; and for the
sake of getting to far places in a
hurry. Danger will be no greater than
in today's cars on the road; perhaps
less. To fly will become as common
place as to ride the roads in the pre-
war days
Our clothing will change its sub
stance and it will be better The era of
plastiCs is just dawning and we have
yet TO see most of it's beauties and its
utilities that will come with the post
war dawning.
And perhaps above all we shall have
| learned more about living together in
harmony and helpfuness.
The war is teaching us about our
neghborS, at home and abroad.
There will be a new day for our
Southern states. There will be vast
travel from and to Latin America.
| Miami may become a luncheon stop
on the flight to Rio.
There's Il great day coming, when
| this war ends.
That its coming should have to be
preceded by such a holocaust is but
one of the great ironies of history.
Birth seems to require it's advance
| cOnvulsiOnS of agony.
But while we pass through this
period of shock and pain and loss, it
| may help us in our contemplations if
we look now and then at that horizon
! over which one day the bright sun of
a postwar tomorrow will rise to greet
uS.-CMW.