The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-07-09
HERR SCHICKLGRUBER =.
~ JUST WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND


YOU JUST WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND
4'A But there are some things you refuse to un
derstand.
You've apparently failed to do much reading
about the way people live in these United States
and what happens when anything threatens then
families homes and freedom.
You see, in this country, our whole scheme Of
life is based on what call free enterprise. That
means man can own grocery store, factory
or farm-buld an automobile or sell insurance
He won't be bothered as long as he doesn't tres
pass on his neighbors rights
Well, long time ago some men began tt
dream. They VlSlOned country where people
would live in homes with bathtubs and telephones
and electric lights, and thousand other comforts
your people are denied.
They saw great factories-with automobiles
streaming from production lines automobiles the
working people could afford to own and drive.
They saw great farms and cattle ranches, labo
mills granaries, canneries. And natior
better fed than any people on earth.
There were many obstacles But these mer
were stubborn, Herr Schicklgruber They went
ahead
Soon it developed, that to buy these products
= the men who worked at making them needed
more wages. And in order to sell in great volume
prices had to be reduced.
The men who made automobiles proved how
smart it They tried it, and it worked. 1t made
everyone very happy. 1t did man good to take
his family to ride of an evening or Sunday. A mar
who worked hard all week.
The idea worked SO we'll that lot Of men go
busy. They Saw there were many things the people
needed. Things like washing machines and sewing
machines and tractors and reapers. And they wen
ahead too. Here in the United States, men Away:
go ahead, Herr Schicklgruber
nd to 1otp obont oil Of hos
miracles, these men advertised. The people realized
their needs and bought. And that made more worl
and higher wages and better living all around fo
everyone And business grew big because it salts
fled the peoples wants
You must have missed this, too. The result ha
been what we call mass production. You see, it.
"a kind Of cycle Mass employment, mass prOduc
ton, mass advertising, mass distribution, mas
ownership.
This is the reason why we have so many labo
ratories and factories now, why we have so man,
mechanlZed farms, great railroads, mines an
1t is the reason why wages are so muc
higher than in your country, why people like t.
live and work in the United States, better than Il
any other country on earth.
But here's the big point you've missed com
pletely, Herr Schicklgruber. You didn't know tina
this thing called American Industry, isn't JUS
management, not just labor, transportation, com
farms, mines. It's the great patter
Ol d OIL Jlleln put JOSeJnef. III S Une lnllllOnS o
men, the fabulous machines, the brains the in
genuty, the skill. All of these, forged togethe
lover the last century. Making mistakes? Yes-an
correcting them But always progressing.
You didn't know how fast this giant ndustria
system could be converted to full war production
did you, Herr Schicklgruber? You didn't stop t
think that the greatest mass producers in tn
world can make enough guns and tanks and plane
and ships to win this war. Enough food and cloth
ing to supply our own needs-and the needs o
our allies.
When you wrote you book "Men Kampf," yo
mentioned something about "lazy democracies.
You haven't been in Detroit at five o'clock in tn
morning lately. Or San Diego, or Philadelphia, o
Wichita. You haven't walked down the almos
|endless asles of thousands of newly built plants
They're everywhere, Herr Schicklgruber. Fror
coast to coast. And your boys haven't run int
ours yet out there where these things are settled
But they will
And the names on the planes they fly, the gun
they carry, the tanks they roll in, are the name
that in peace have given us our comforts, on
pleasures, our reasons for living. They are tn
names that are in our homes-names that symbo
Iize our freedom. We have released them willingly
Herr Schicklgruber, but only for while. The
must be retained. They must come back to hel
build the bigger better life we look for-whe
|you finally understand.
TOO MANY ARMY AIR CRASHES
|NllG ARE so many soldiers being killed in all