The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-07-16
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutched Out
The Truth
ON OUR SOIL
. WORKERS DOING MAGNIFI-
CENT JOB
MORE FIGHTING SPIRIT
EVERYBODY'S WAR

When the unbelievable demons of
war lashed out at our nation on Dec.
Z, Americans walked around, or sat
in huddles, dazed, unable in thousands
upon thousands of cases, to believe that
this venomous news could be true.
1t happened to some other country
not to ours. 1t happened to some other
peOple-not to us.
And even today there are thousands
who simply will not take seriously the
fact that we are at war and that our
nation can be attacked, not merely
upon the high seas, but here at home,
on land-ON OUR SOIL!
The fact that the few shells fired at
Pacific coast points have done no real
harm probably has convinced other
thousands that no more serious at
tack can be made.
All of which is rubbish-and we had
better get over it.
x x X
Our workers in factories are doing
a magnificent job. They are working
production miracles. Work stoppages
are down almost to a minimum.
But great deal remains to be de-
sired.
Too much population goes about it's
way in no way acting as if we We're
engaged in the greatest war the world
has known.
Twaddle, twaddle, twaddle, abounds
in too many circles.
There is grumbling at the small sacri-
fees the civilian population has been
thus far called upon to make.
A bridge party is excuse enough any
time to keep thousands from defense
job that needs to be done-or war
job.
And there is plenty of official red
tape still tangling with progress.
That united fighting spirit that puts
winning the war ahead of EVERY
THING remains to be developed-that
fighting MAD spirit of people de-
termined to WIN BY A KNOCKOUT!
That's what we've got to have-AND
QUICKLY!
X X X
We cannot yet know what may be
the sum total of the cost of the loss of
Tobruk and the general retreat of the
British in Libya and it is perhaps pre-
posterous to be critical at this stage,
when comeback seems so definitely in
the air.
But it seems safe to say on the
basis of all known fact, that the fight
ing mad spirit of aggression wasn't
too strong in ROmmel's pathway
There are plenty of home towns in
America that are not yet fighting mad
the way you get when some bounder
has kicked you in the pants and made
it hurt
This is everybody's war and every
body needs to get mad
Airplanes can dump loads of murder
on our cities; and not only on those
near the coast lines.
Some say it might be good thing
if we had few bombs loosed upon us
THAT would wake us up.
x 4 X
But what we need to get riled about
and determined about is the challenge
10 our principles, TO our freedom, to
what is called our way of life.
It's the deep principle involved that
ought to fire us and stir us to our very
depths, to let nothing stand in the way
of the fullest and quickest contribution
to victory.
Unless we are stirred by the great
issue at stake we might as we'll agree
that we are beyond being stirred which
definitely we are not.
The world is divided today upon a
magnificent fundamental. That's how it
is. There is only right side-the side of
freedom.
That's why we MUST do our level
best; every one of u.s. not just some
of us.
This isn't just an army and navy
war. This is PEOPLES WAR-and
WE are the people !-CNW.