The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-14
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtched Out
The Truth
. ATLANTIC COAST SAMPLES
. MINIMUM OF COMPLAINT
. NEW TAXES
. FOUR FREEDOMS

. FOUR FREEDOMS
Those who do not live on the Allan
tic seaboard don't quite realize what
the war has come to mean along the
great east coastal area.
1t is advance notice of more to come.
Two things bring the war home to
aalmost every person. One of the
screening" of lights. The other is gas
oline rationing. Wow! That bites!
The screenOut means no bright
lights. City after city shows only the
faintest of lights-none outside at all,
except shaded street lights. Driving
what little there isis with parking
lights only-no headlights. Speed, 20
miles per hour, or less. For in many
places even 20 miles is too fast for
safety.
Sugar rationng, of course, is every
where. And doesn't hurt many persons
much.
But there is a minimum of COM
plaint, even against the gasoline sit
uation.
People are coming rapidly to under
stand what "all-out' war means and
that the price must be paid by all
people.
There is wOnderment-it looks justi-
fied-as to whether gasoline rationing
could have been forestalled by the
right action in the months gone by.
There is wOnderment about what
hand the railroads may have played
in preventing construction of pipe
lines. And whether there was other
pickering between competing forms of
transportatiOn-truck rail and water.
Certain it is that in land waterway
possibilities have been overlooked all
too long.
But the people aren't questioning the
necessity now of rationing and they
aren't kicking about anything that will
help win the war.
They may kick at some point at
what may be found to be the real
cause of current shortages.
When war began it was Il certainty
that tanker capacity would be cut, by
one means or another and that other
means of transporting gasoline would
be needed. But they'll take the lid off
that later on, when it won't hurt the
war.
1t is Il good thing to get into the
way of thinking that the war is going
to call for more and more discomfort
and sacrifice. The Atlantic seaboard
samples are just the beginning. Cities
further inland may look for the same
sort of thing sooner or later-probably
sooner
Some foods will get scarcer and
Scarcer. Not any price will get them,
because they just won't exist.
Rubber was Il forerunner, but by
no means the end of the line. Many
commodities using rubber will 90 off
the market, just us those using alumni
mum are passing out.
Then will come the new taxes.
War costs Il lot of money-almost all
the money there is.
But victory at any price is cheaper
than defeat for nothing-for in defeat
we should lose everything.
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1t is because the people generally
understand the imposSibiity of permit
ting defeat that there is an almost
cheerful acceptance of the hardShipS
that have come thus far and will
ingneSS to face whatever new ones
there may be.
One doesn't need to think of the men
on Corregidor, or the Commands of
England to feel that civilian sacrifices
are mild. One has but to look at the
awful and abySmal misery of defeat.
All this nation asks of its leaders
is Yictory-at any price!
Material things are of small value
in such times as these.
The great ethical and spiritual
values of life are taking their rightful
places in the thoughts of men and
women.
The four freedoms and all of the
little freedoms are at the top of, our
thinking. In Il democracy YOU call
as the old adage has it-''live each
day 50 you can look every damn man
in the face and tell him to go to heIl'.
That was almost the main rule of the
tatorship you can only tell that to
those who are utterly helpless and
even then you must be careful.
Americans love their freedoms with
utter and upXhallStible dpNOt ion