The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-18
Face of the Future
By John B. Kennedy

I'm Munich at one of the more naclous beer halls, where even the Nayls could not spoil the nectar ,f the old Teuton heaven, which IS hrau.house- hear some fellow
 antlng, There's cadence to his ,acophony--a spellblnder. We get glimpse of this finished orator with on unfinished mustache. we Iaugh ct what looks like Q heinie carbon copy of Charles Chaplin. He's yelling hat he'll change his. ,ory for 0 thousand years. Hasn't aeP
 Later, some years later, in New York, o genial gent with a face like an oversized cupid inQuires of a group of us how his first radio speech went over. He's winston Churchill. Somebody explains to him that nobody over here-while the speech was splendid--would be very much impressed by the topic the new German threat to peace through the Nagis. "They're not very much interested in Britain, either" df, NJ replied MT. Chur- chill = did I say drylyp = "But we're all going to be very much im- pressed before long"
 One of the flrst-rate minds of our time nut-shelled the entire trouble of our so-called civiliza- ton, His name? owen D. Young. His themep That in the order of economic determinism that's slang for bread-and-butter politics the contest is between the rising standard of living and the dropping standards of living. On or the other must win and rule the world. That, apart from the basic moral issue that we all who have any any pretense to civilization recognize, IS what this war is all about.
 Our side is fighting for the high pr standard of living; our enemies for the lower, for slavery, or for sheer animal vengeance against what they call the have peoples by the 'have-nots'. But this has been the case through history-the Huns and the GoshS and the Tar tarsr attacking more comfortable civilizations. Whyp The answer is SO very plain we always manage to miss it. A great man with a great mind, put the matter for all time in induring epigram. The late Senator Alsert Beveridge of In- diana, who said: The prosperous can be secure only in their pros- perity when they pass prosperity around"
 To cut corners through all the arguments about the war, about the isolationists, who have a right to be ignorant if they won't recognize that when American genius trans formed the oceans from miles into minutes, ali isolation was over-lets stick to the moral side of 1t.
 happen to be Christian, and as such I believe God Himself lived in this world as Christ. l am coming to have an obverse D lief --ttAt Lucifer, the Devil, has come to earth in the person of Adolf Hit Ter Schicklgruber. There Is nothing in this latter belief contradictory to our theology. Hitler's simple genius has been and is the genius Of evil. There's nothing so utterly fout that he will not do. and If anybody has any ideas worse than his send them along to Berchtes- gaden and he'll try them. He has turned the world world upside down and made hell smell very bad on top. This chief of the Gaderne swine possessed by the devil has damaged his allies more than his enemies. He is tn quintessence of evil and he has put the marks of Gain on his people for ever more.
 Now, what to do about 1t? We and our allies will win this war. No doubt of that. We did the last time. and look what happened, and whyt The United States, most unselfish of all the warning nations, the only one victor that put much into the war and took nothing out - this country, fed up with Europe, abdicated the leader ship the world acknowledged (ex- cepting Japan) and the Great God Greed ruled over all. Selfishness. unenlightened, rapacious, became the international rule and the dom estic principle in even the most progressive countries. For, if Bri- tain had to reshort to a dole that inevitably brought doldrums - this country had a bonus army, Tobacco Road communities and its Grapes of Wrath.
 SignOr Marconi once talked of the possibilities of radio. Since all sound is solid" he argued, Tt is really indestructible, and somewhere Ln the bounds of space all sound abides. It may be possible some day to devise a radio recevier so delicately powerful that it can re- cover lost sounI and bring back ! to us Lincoln's voice uttering the Gettysburg Speech, Washington in his Farewell Address, or Tne Ser mon on the Mount. Fantastic? | But what would radio have seemed | Q Washington" I've an idea even l more fantistic: that such an in- strument Marconi conceived migh | go to the edge of time to recover | the blasphemous challenge of the first muI derer Cain over the body | A L.-AL1,