The people's voice., 1942-12-04
By THOMAS EUGENE HOWARD

The war has brought great changes
in the lives Of many OF our people
Our peace time happy-go-lucky way oi
life is swiftly being changed to a wal
time economy.
War industries spring up almost
centers are rapidly being occupied by
thousands of new recruits. Both city
and country workers are being taken
into the armed forces or are going
into the war industries where better
than peace time wages are being paid
and where they can. better serve the
war effort. Regular farm workers
who leave either for war work in the
cities, or who go into the armed
forces, leave the farms short handed
Clerks and urban employees of all
kinds Of peace time business, who &c
Into the war or war work, cause
changes in the personnel of even the
corner grocery store. People are
moving here and there like pawns on
a gigantic chess board, as though at
tracted by magnetic force or impelled
by an unseen hand
To staid and complacent persons
it must appear that we now live in a
topsy-turvy, upside down, cockeyed
world. AS a matter of fact, that
viewpoint is correct. 1t will not suf-
flee, however, to merely make or ac-
cept such dogmatic statement with
out clearly analyzing how the world
got this way. Surely we in the
United tSates didn't turn it upside
down. Even though our community
is rapidly being changed, although our
work is changing day by day, al
thought our way Of life and freedom
of choice is radically different from
that of just a few months ago, we are
not responsible for the changes.
The facts in the case are that we
of the United States are in war.
The war, however, is not one of our
own choosing. We didn't. start it.
We didn't turn our community from
staid, sober, quiet, and friendly little
settlement, to a bustling, changing,
noisy metropolis, inhabited by strang-
ers who don't seem to care too much
about the long unbroken weekly rou-
tines of the local dowagers. These
strangers don't seem to care too much
if Mr.. Clark, who owns and operates
the bank, did break his leg. They
evince no concern if Mr.. Williams,
who has operated the food mart for
25 years, does get Brights disease.
These strangers don't send flowers in
either case They don't know Will
liams or Clark either. They just
want as fast service at the market
as they can get, and if Mr. Williams
isn't there, someone else will be.
So the world really is on the move,
here and there and everywhere, but
it isn't just for fun. It's because the
stage is rapidly being set to test out
whether the people want to remain
free or not AS each one takes his
place for the test, it disarranges not
only his own previous mode of living,
but it changes the whole picture into
which he is being fitted. If he goes
into the armed forces, not only is his
own little world thrown out of its
orbit, but that of many others is also
upset. Regardless of any extravagant
which may be made under our demo
cratic right Of free speech, we must
go right on with the change from a |
peace time economy to war footing |
Hitler and his German nazis, TOTO |
and his Japanese Black Dragon So
fascists, don't want us to make this
change. They want us to individual
ly resist it. They want us to com
plain and retard and find fault. They
want us to criticize any of the changes
which affect us either individually or
They have entered into
a tripartite agreement to conquer the
world and divide it three ways accord
ing to already agreed upon zones or
spheres of racial adaptability for con-
troll, so of course they don't want any
national unity here. They have
pledged themselves to destroy the
freedom and democracy of all con-
quered people. They have completed
their blue prints and plans to con-
fiscate all private property and to
enslave the people of the captured
nations They have officially de-
,lared that they will destroy the
Christian religion throughout the
world, and establish pagan religion !
n its place.
Many persons have made no effort
% ascertain the seriousness of this
var. They go on the theory that it's |
ust another war They are, in their t
yery childishness of immature anal 1
isis, aiding the enemy. Others be- t
.ome great experts over night. They {
NOW all about the output of all war {
they either know there
houId be no second front in which a
ve should participate, or that it t
hould have been made weeks ago. c
some even know where it will be Il
made and when. Others become so T
xpert that they know there is posi- F
lively no need for tire rationing. | t
)thers become abusive of government il
fficials, departments, or rules which d
pset their business as usual, their v
rofits as usual, their biases as usual, v
T. their living habits as usual 9th
rs don't want their private political t.
anne to be interfered with. t.
If, perhaps, they refer to this war 7
S being one that we should win, they Ii
peak of necessary sacrifices" which S
lust be made. "It's a sacrifice to do il
his 4" or ssit's a sacrifice to do that se