The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15

Well, it's all there in the paper and
you can read it for yourself. If you
didn't know before that YOU were in
the war, you know it now.
And high time.
The economic stabiliZatiOn law is on
the books and the presidential order
setting up the administrative machin-
cry has been signed and sealed and
delivered to the man who quit a job
as associate supreme court justice to
take on this great new burden.
To those who pride themselves on
never reading more than the head
lines, it might be suggested that this
time they make an exception and read
the whole text
Dawdling along was no way to win
THIS war. Well dawdling along seems
to be ended.
The fellow who has been accustomed
to a planlled steak of maybe two or
more pounds is going to feel the pinch
of the new kind of living, but on the
other hand a great many who never
got enough will probably feel that they
are getting a better deal.
1t takes something like a straight
jacket economy to win war that is
being fought all over the world.
And when you know what it take it
is wise to get about it without delay.
And that leads to a quarrel with
certain folks, some of them high
placed.
The quarrel is with those who per-
sist in saying that I'VE can lose this
war;"
1t would be a good idea to put
stop to that.
That isn't true and neither is it the
way to get people in the' mind to go
out and help win the war.
Possibly it is true, in a purely physi-
cal sense, that we could lose the war.
IF there were nothing else to think of.
But there is.
Spiritually and mentally we CAN
NOT LOSE THIS WAR BECAUSE
WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE.
That we have lost battles is true.
We lost the very first round.
But you can 90 out and announce to
the world that by the eternal gods we
shall NOT lose this war.
1t may take the last ounce of
strength and determination in the last
man of us, but that last ounce will be
given and we are NOT going to lose
this war.
Yes, some pretty high placed voices
have been telling us that we ARE los
ing and that we CAN lose until we are
beaten.
What coach ever drove a team to
victory by telling the team it could
lose?
Is that what George Washington
said? Is that what Patrick Henry
said? Is that what Abraham Lincoln
said? Is that what Marshal FOch said?
Is that what Black Jack Pershing
said?
Frankly, the hell with that I'VE can
lose" stuff
We need to be told what we've got
o do to win. We need to be told the
dds we've got to beat.
Iiicil zen us, not lIldI we can lose,
but that we've damned well got to win
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History teens with the stories of
men and armies that won because they
didn't know they We're licked.
But history definitely does NOT TEEN
with stories of armies or men who won
because they knew they could lose.
The new economic sterilization law,
TO get back to that, was planned to in
crease our ability to deliver the goods
to the army and navy and to keep the
home front from going haywire.
1t is drastic. 1t is going 10 change
a lot of ways of living. The ways of
living nave pretty draStiCally changed
for the fellows in Iceland and Africa
and Australia and Alaska, too.
But all of these changes are to give
us the strength we need to win.
Take these changes like soldiers.
remember, the world will never be the
same anyway, after this. IT Is GO
ING TO BE BETTER.
SO what? SO, by hell, cut out the
can lose" and slug through to victory!
-CMW.