The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-07-09
The Cherry Tree
Where We ,Hdtched Out
The Truth
. WAR NOT YET WON
. SABOTEURS IN OUR MIDST
. 1T CAN HAPPEN HERE
. WE MUST WAKE UP!

One of the things to be done now is
to get away from the idea that we
have the war won and that all this
talk about 1T can't happen to us" is
so much horse radish.
One of the things for us to get into
our heads is that this is a real war,
that powerful nations are fighting us
and that they intend to hurt us if, as
and where they can do it.
1t seems mighty difficult for the
average person to think in terms of
bombs dropping on our cities.
Civilian defense work is too often
undertaken as if it were lark -
nothing very serious.
Production, by and large, is zooming
along, but such thing as calling
stoppage on account of 20 minutes time
during a practice blackout is an indi-
cation, clear enough, that there are
brains that really don't understand
that we are at war.
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War means something besides shoot
ing at somebody else. 1t means that
somebody else is shooting at US.
And you can leave out the prospect
of air raids if you want to. Just try
to remember the eight, saboteurs cap
tured by the FBI. Suppose FBI hadn't
caught them!
More than that, are we to suppose
that when those eight were nabbed that
axis plans for attack upon our soil
were all demolished?
Well, we had better not be lulled
into any such idea!
There is practically NO section Of the
United States that is absolutely i'm
| mune from attack.
1T CAN HAPPEN.
The thing we need to do is to get
| serious about this thing and to GET.
MAD ABOUT 1T. We need to get good
and damned MAD!
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| We are given to believe that some
necessary war measures are being de-
| layed until after the elections, because
they might cost somebody some votes.
The elections are in November, a
|
So we shall wait those four months
and more before we fully buckle down
to business, so that electioneering may
not be interefered with.
| What a spectacle!
| Meanwhile the wrecking of American
ships goes on so close to our shores
that the mangled fotsam and jetsam
washes onto the sands of cities where
the people have been accustomed to
play in warm forgetfulness.
Our enemies are wasting no time.
They are holding back no effort that
might contribute to the war effort.
They aren't PLAYING at war. THEY
ARE OUT TO KILL!
1t is about time that we realize that
war means full speed to the kill.
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But maily we need to remember that
we can be attacked and that probably
we will be attacked. Once we get the
idea into our heads we will have a
better idea of what the war means. We
will be well on the way to getting
MAD about it.
Our planes are winging their way
over many foreign nations right now.
Our planes have gone almost around
the world, to find enemy targets.
Well we don't control the air YET.
If our planes can fly, SO can enemy
planes fly.
AND, if enemy submarines can fuel
in our hemisphere-as they must be
doing why cannot enemy planes do
likewise?
1t is about time that parties and
bridge games and la de da got out of
the pathway of war.
1t is about time to quit mushy think
ing.
1t Is about time to know that war is
not one-way street. The bullets &c
BOTH ways.
Let's go ALL THE WAY TO WAR
i .t-CMW.