The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-08
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtched Out
The Truth
. CHURCHILL IN u. S. A.
. WE HAVE TO WIN
. TIME WILL TELL
. A SMALL WORLD

a SMALL WORLD \
Winston Churchill comes to the
United States, sleeps in the White
House and makes a speech to the Con-
gress in joint session.
Someone said quite a while ago,
'it's a small world, after ALL"
Britain and the United States work
out joint plan of action, for fight
ing at points as far apart as Iceland
and Singapore, Dakar and the islands
off Canada, the Pacific and the Carib
bean, which the Latins pronounce one
way, and the English another way.
Yes, the world gets smaller every
day. 1t isn't any good to measure dis
tance in miles. Instead you measure
with knowledge of how long it takes
to get there.
The Philippines, it seems, were just
hop from Japan and the Hawaiian
Islands no more than a place to stop
over long enough to lay the eggs.
Los Angeles business men are up
in arms because the war has scared
the tourist trade until the Angelenos
stand to lose the enormous tourist
revenue.
It's small world, to be sure. 1t
will be smaller next year. Much
smaller.
The United States has bombers
that can fly round trip, U. S. to Eu-
rope, without refueling. Many Won
der why they don't hop to Toxic. But
probably there are reasons.
Anyway, it seems there's plenty of
time for that. Listen to Winston
Churchill, as he talks to our Congress.
He said in that solemn address that
by the end of 1912 we should be even
keel with the Axis in making war ma
terias. In 1943 we shall gain the
upper hand. That sends the war
through the coming two years, at
least.
You can think that over. You knew
we were going to be in the war. You
knew it long ago.
But there were so many who didn't
know it and wouldn't believe it. Oh no,
nothing like that could happen. All
we had to do was to mind our own
business and we'd be o. X.
Well, you see how it went. You see
what happened. You've heard about
Pearl Harbor.
Now look ahead, two years, maybe
three, maybe five. No matter how
many years, we have to win!
x X X
And about that Churchill speech.
Many of those who heard him and who
joined in the thunder of applause, just
a few short weeks ago were yelling
their heads off for isolation, for any
thing that would hamper the Presi-
dent, for some kind of hiding in the
sand, which greatly encouraged the
Axis.
Well, they have got over that. At
least in public they have got over it.
The thing to do is to praise, highly
and sincerely, those who sincerely
know that they were mistaken and
who want now to do all they can to
help win this war.
Time will surely reveal those who
have seemed to be converted, but in
sincerely and only on the surface. For
them we shall then find out some way
of registering the conviction of de-
mocracy.
What happened in Congress hap
pened also in some union ranks. OBJ
,t,n foly ont of ha
and the cry went up to defend
America Most were sincere-some
were not. Time will tell us who were
not The future will deal with cases.
x x X
It's a small world, yes Even time
shrinks. The speed of all events is
terrific, just as distances are cut down
by machines that can fly two, three,
four hundred miles an hour.
In the last great war German u
boat came to the United States, just
before our entry, with commercial
cargo. 1t did not return to shoot
Now a Jap submarine comes to the
California coast, sinks freighter and
is itself blown to smithereenS within
sight of the coast.
Isolationists said war couldn't touch
Us. Could they have been actually SO
ignorant?
Civilian defense authorities say
every city should expect to be hit
to act as if it expected to be hit.
Some scoff, even now 1t will be
good for them to read the Churchill
address to Congress. In world that
shrnks in transit time as the months
flick by, that address is at once a