The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-11-25

Ernie Pyle, who writes about war
with the same eloquence of simplicity
that has marked his writings about
little towns and average people, wrote
a few days ago that there is little VlSl-
bic effect of war in many of our small
towns.
He went on to say that he couldn't
see why there should be any marked
| change. It's hard to put on an air or
tense excitement and wild dramatics
over what is happening thousands OF
miles away.
1t was really swell piece, full of
wisdom and good reporting.
| But Ernie also took look behind
| the front lawns and the falling leaves
and he found homes where hearts beat
| in anxiety over boys who are in that
war thousands of miles away-and so
| it's really the eXteriors that haven't
been changed by the great conflict.
The leaves that fall are raked away
by younger ones, or by older ones. Just
about one whole segment of the popula-
ton has disappeared into the war.
The men and women at home go
about work and business. In many of
our small towns that work and bust
ness isn't much different than it was
| before the war.
But in the big crashing cities, like
Detroit, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and
| Cleveland, it is really different.
Thousands upon thousands of men
are going about new kinds of work,
very often in shifts that 90 around the
| clock
Now it's bombers and fighters and
that roll off the lines.
Working on these things must put
something different into the people who
work ON them. There must come to be
a different psychology among workers
who roll Flying FOrtresSes off the line
than there is among men who make
refrigeratorS and sleek pleasure cars
There must be-and so there is change
In a resort city as gay as Miami, Flor
ida used to be there is this tremendous
change
The Miami BiltmOre hotel, once the
center of the whole winter gaiety at
and so it will remain.
In the whole area of the county of
which Miami is the heart, there are
scarcely six miles in any direction be-
tween airportS. And some of them are
tremendous. A great Army air depot
fills enormous buildings spread over
several hundred acres of ground.
Miami again will be the purely re-
sort city Of the past. 1t will have an
economic foundation. Miami under
stands dimly the change that has come
over great, sprawling Los Angeles.
And into the airpOrtS of Miami come
great planes that have been into many
Pacific and the heart of India, as well
as Africa and Alaska and Italy.
While the leaves fall as always, and
pleasant, secure-lOoking front lawns in
little towns seem not at all changed,
the currents are whirling that are to
bring tides of change to our whole ma
tion-tides that will roll on into the
years of peace.
These tides will press against our
political life, they will smash headlOng
into our industrial life and they will
work their way with our home life.
1t is more than possible that the
changes in our ways of life to come iii
the first ten years of peace will be more
profound than would have come in a
quarter of a century, had there been no
war. For war has so Speeded all of the
processes of discovery and exploration
that this speed of postwar change is
almost inescapabe.
But to enjoy the amazing things to
come we must win the war and win il
completely and thoroughly. The things
necessary to win must be done.
/ Let us never forget that. Whatever
is necessary to victory must be DONE
CMW.