The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-15
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutched Out
The Truth
. IT'S COMING
. BILLIONS FOR FREEDOM
. "GO GET EN-"
. BUT 1T SHALL BE

All out! What message was that
ringing document delivered to the
Congress by the President!
If you remember what you have
been reading in these columns, think
back to what they were saying a year
ago, six months ago.
They were saying, "lt's coming. Get
ready"
We didn't take the war seriously
enough. We thought it couldn't hap
pen, or if it could happen there was
plenty of time.
Well, out of clear blue sky in
which at couldn't happen" it did hap
pen and Pearl Harbor was written
into our history books on flaming
page in which the great glory of
heroic sacrifice does not blot out the
terrible story of unreadiness.
| But now we know what we have to
do-and America will do it!
| X X X
Once upon time the Barbary Pi-
rates were told that we would give
millions for defense, but not a cent
for tribute"
In today's language this nation says
billions for freedom and nothing
short of freedom"
The President has said this nation
will strike at the enemy all over the
globe, wherever the enemy is and
wherever we can get to.
No mere sitting on our shore lines,
waiting for attack That's out. The
order is, "Go get 'em; go after 'em."
Read the catalogue of equipment to
be produced-planes, tanks, guns,
bombs, ammunition, ships. The world
never heard of such an order in all the
ages Of time.
And to fill that great order, with the
work of hands and brains, is the work
of labor-American labor. What a
role it is that has come to the work
ers of this land of ours!
x x x
| Eighteen men must toll for every
man who stands up front in the fight
ing lines.
That's how big is the job of labor to
turn out the hordes Of tanks that will
rumble and blast their way through
the forces Of tyranny, the planes that
will clear the skies of the birds Of
prey and hate, the ships that will
carry the food and the machinery Of
war to the forces of freedom over the
seven seas.
That's how big.
| 1t isn't much use trying to imagine
how great is the task. 1t slips past
the poor powers of our imaginations.
For most of us our powers to imagine
concrete things do not go far beyond
the shape and scope Of things that we
have seen.
And nobody ever saw such a mass
ing of equipment as we now shall pro
duce. 1t never was But it shall be!
Where our imagination fails our de-
termination will not falter. This great
task we shall perform.
x x X
Labor has brought itself into a soil
darity of conviction. The two great
armies of labor have entered into an
agreement which puts the nation and
the nations good ahead Of partisan
rivalreS.
There can be concentration on the
Job of making the tools and the equip
ment Of war, which is to save freedom
throughout the world, so that we and
those to come may know how good is
life without a tyrant's chains and
lash
American labor can be proud Of
what it is doing and is to do.
1t can't take time out now to preen
its feathers, but after it is all over
and the battle flags are furled, then it
can write its page of history in thai
indelible ink that is saved for those
who write in proper pride of duty well
performed
Until that day comes, let the
pledges De kept, as obligations so
solemn that nothing Of whatever kind
or character can move the workers
away from them by as much as a
hairs breadth for so much as a split