The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-02-19
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtched Out
The Truth
IT CANNOT BE DUCkED
WILL HAVE RATION CARDS
. TEAM WORK MAIN THING
DEMOCRACY WILL RULE

Not much use trying to get your
mind off the war. The war creeps into
every phase of life.
1t cannot be ducked!
Nor should it be ducked.
On the outcome depends the whole
future of mankind--the whole way of
life.
Meanwhile the demands of war are
so sweeping that they revOutiOniZe
our way of life for the Duration.
Imagine the stoppage of our great
automobile industry! 1t staggers the
mind You can't believe it.
But there it is. The whole machinery
for making automobiles has been
stripped from the huge plants.
Now we shall have only the things
for war.
That's symbol of what's going to
happen already is happening - in
other giant industries.
Today you can't have what you want
just because you can pay for it.
That too, is something new in Amer
lea.
You can have what you want only
if the transaction doesn't hurt the war
job.
Soon you'll have your sugar ration
cards-later other ration cards.
Soon, too, your tires will go blooey
and you'll walk, or ride Il bicycle,
or take a bus, if and when there is one
Street cars are coming back strong,
of necessity.
These things mean shifting union
memberships, among other things.
Try to duck the thought of war
yes. try and do it.
But why try? Why not think about
it. frankly, boldly, to help win it?
1t has to be won and it will take
all of us to win.
Meanwhile more and more power
goes into the hands of the Federal gov
ernment.
This has been Il country in which
every damn man could tell every other
damn man to go to hell'.
That's out The Federaal government
is made up of men. The Federal gov
ernment will have millions of men in
uniform and the needs of these men
in uniform must come ahead of every
thing else. 1t will be yes SIR instead
of go TO hell". AS it should be.
Not that we can't sputter and kick
but that stuff doesn't rule any more
It's incidental, like Il walk around the
block.
Team work is the big thing from
here on. Team work pretty much at
government command.
and the people are set for it. They
aren't arguing with Franklin ROose-
Welt or Donald Nelson or Leon Hender-
SON Or With the big generals and ad-
mirals. y
We shall show that we, too, know
how TO boil down the power and put
it under centralized control, in order
To make the most speed.
On BatHn Peninsula one man is boss
Look at the result!
It's no argument against democracy.
This whole picture of ours grew out
of democracy. Macarthur is a product
of democracy-so is Roosevelt and so
is Nelson.
Democracy can do Il job. 1t can
take the form needed to do q job. The
job has arrived and it is going to he
done.
As time passes the country will spot
the takers and inCompetents and ways
will be found to throw them out. Mis-
takes will be made and corrected.
But meanwhile this nation will be
pouring out the most goshawful noun
tain of fighting stuff the world ever
Saw-bccause democracy built this ma
ton that way.
Hitler and clustering Mussolni and
funny little Kirohto couldn't know
about that, couldn't see it coming.
And in the end they will wonder
just what the hell it was that hit
them!