The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-11-26

The military gents and the type
writer strategists" will tell you all
you need to know and a lot you don't
need to know, about the military value
of the invasion of Africa, but there's
something equally important that we
all need to know.
1t is the value of that great and
dramatic enterprise right here at
home!
The American people must have
something doing" Do you remember
the apathy that began to grow and
envelop us all during the latter half
of that first year that gave birth to
the name "phony war;?
| 1t can get to be a tough drag pour
| ing out production for war in which
the action doesn't seem to correspond
to the effort expended.
1t can seem like something that isn't
too important to keep the production
lines hot when the shooting doesn't
seem to be fast enough to call for such
effort.
But now it's different! The shooting
is going plenty. There's action, mo-
ton, great sweeps of blistering, breath
less action.
Americans are storming all over
North Africa. And all of those great
machines and that monstrous array of
guns and ammunition are going with
the men who fly and roll and walk
over and on that vast stretch of terri
tory
There's a reason! And how!
And in the Pacific and almost
everywhere Action! Mighty American
and Allied armies are on the move,
going FORWARD!
| And we know that wherever Allied
armies go FORWARD, they're going
TOWARD Berlin and TOW A r d
TokiO
Now we see it as good team work
that Stain cried in pain and anger
for us to open second front. The
enemy believed we We're NOT doing
it. But, man, howdy Look at it now
X X X
And today there's reason, reason
that can be seen and understood by
everyone for turning out every last
ounce of production. There's reason
for rationing at home.
We KNOW where the supplies are
going. We can see pictures of the tanks
and the planes and the landing barges
and the guns and the holy smoke of
battle that calls for supplies in such
prOdigious quantities as man never
needed in any other war.
We KNOW where the beef is going
and where all the other foods are 60
ing We can SEE why we at home
must cut down, must be ratiOned with
enough for all but none to waste.
We KNOW that today's soldier eats
as much for breakfast as many civil
ians need for the whole day.
And HE shall have it, in abundance
and good luck to him!
We're not driving through on the
last drive. We have been told that this
is not the beginning of the end, but
that it is the end of the beginning.
1t was Churchill who said it that way.
SO all right. That's how it is. BUT,
it is movement 1t is drive and action
and putting everything on the ball,
from factory to firing line.
In what's doing today there's a lift
for everyone. We will get set-backs,
some awful maulings, some terribly
disheartening blows; BUT our armies
are out there fighting! The training
days are over. From here on out, you
Axis Apes, you've got a fight on your
hands!
praise the Lord and pass the am
munition" Yes, and also, GREASE
THE WHEELS AND MAKE THE
AMMUNITION ! Make it fast, pour it
out, let there be avalanches of it!
Let there be no pause in this great
job of MAKING the ammunition. Up
front they're passing it-plenty. Men
and women of America, Praise the
Lord and MAKE THE ANIMUNI-
TION !-CMW.