The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-12-10
BY j. +. JONES
TO Win The Battle OF Peace

by d. II. .3oINF>
TO Win The Battle OF Peace
Washington, ID. &. - Senator Wiley
of Wisconsin has proposed that tn"
Senate and President set up Il Council
to map out and agree upon terms of
peace after Victory. The Senator cor
rectly assumes that tn" Senate should
participate in the deliberations Of the
United Nations.
Under the Wiley plan the Govern
mpnt of the United States, and by that
is meant the President and the Con
greSS, would be in Il position to ne%o-
tiate peace that would meet with the
approval of the people of the United
States. That would insure ratification
of the treaty of peace even if Il two
thirds majority was necessary. How
ever, Il constitutional amendment may
be sought so that the Senate could
approve Il peace treaty by a majority
vote.
The refusal of the Senate to ratify
the Versailles peace treaty was due
to the fact that President Wilson put
through his own plan, without consult
ing the Senate. The legislative group
rejected Wilson's treaty, and the
United States withdrew from the
League Of Nations-before it joined
America lost the peace!
Such tragedy might be repeated
after the present war if President
Roosevelt should choose to exercise all
of his constitutional powers the same
way he has done all the way through
the present war.
All Senator Wiley asks for is Il def
mite program at the peace table to in
sure ratification. lie insists upon the
principle, and not upon details.
The main point is that the plan
should be developed and conSummatrd
before it is too latc-as in 1919.
Our Confusing Times
The United States Department of
Labor locates the rapidly expanding
cenlers of population as being outsid,
the metropolitan areas. The distribu
ton Of these wartime activities is
scattered from Maine to Florida, from
Washington into Oregon and California
into is States.
But everything is not "hunIlydory'
far from il. Conditions produced hS
the war have upset the normal meth
ods OF American life. Industrial ac
tivity is all changed. Millions of indi
vidualS find themselves miStitS under
the eXacting system of Government
control of economic affairs and ways
of living. 1t was that way in War
when good luck and hard luck in bu>i
ness affairs split about half and half
Some grew rich, while many becam,
very poor.
There is no need to tell IL newspaper
man that national advertising has beer
withdrawn from thousands of publica
tions. 1t is Il waste of words to eN
plain to thousands of hotels, resorts
recreation and vacation centcrs tina
are facing Il great crisis.
Freeing Women For War Work
Essential industry is Il term tha
rightfully belongs not only to those
factories which produce munitions anG
resources for war, but also TO un
heraldcd businesses which make /
possible for the steel, airplane, ship
building and munitions plants to opcr
ate.
In any list of essential" industries
laundrieS and linen supply plants mus
certainly be considered, although thei
efforts do not directly point bombs o.
bullets at the Axis. BY relieving mil
lions of housewives of their creates
Chore-the family washing plus grim,
work uniforms they release man.
women for jobs in war plants. 1t i
estimated by the American institute
| Of Laundering and the Linen Suppl,
Association Of America that every EN-
ployee in laundry or linen suppl.
house releases seven women for job
in industry At Il time when manpowc
| seems to be our greatest bottleneck
this contribution is especially signili
cant.
| When it is also remembered that b.
expert handling of clothing, wor
clothes. towels, and service linen
these industries protect the health
productivity, and morale of million
of workers, it can be seen how niue
the nation depends on them in main
Itaining its production capacity.