The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-14

Are we having good news played up
too much?
Are we getting to be push-overs for
short victories, while we don't get
look at facts that we ought to have!
Probably we won't know until after
the war, but at least we can have a
good "think" about a thing or two.
We were given terrific ballyhoo
about what Secretary Wickard and
OWIman Davis were going to tell us in
their famous broadcast-and what we
got was fair eighth grade essey that
told everybody just about next to
nothing
We were told that we had swept
North Africa, but what's holding us
now?
Somebody seems to assume that we
are all saps and must be milk-fed on
gandistic pabulum. uas
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Nobody wants to know anything that
might help the enemy, but we prob
ably would do a better war job if we
knew the truth about food and gaso-
line and fuel oil and transportation.
President Roosevelt is doing an
amazing job of running the main war
scheme. But even at fairly long range
it can be seen that there are admins
traitors who are not doing a good job.
We have right to bellyache about
bad job.
Maybe we can't be told the whole
Darlan story, but that cannot stif1e
our interest in a possible French civil
war.
British correspondents in the United
States can't tell England how we feel
about lot of things nor can our cor
respondents in London tell us how the
English feel about a lot of things.
Something is going haywire
Would it be pardOnable to suggest
that Geage Creel did better job in
World War l than seems to be getting
done in the same field in this war?
What's happening in the Latin
American field?
All we head directly is that comfy
prevails, except in Argentina and
Chile until couple of lines creep
through about some shooting in Mexico
which might indicate that the beauti-
full blonde had done better job than
it was generally supposed she was do
ing
Mr. Rockefeller never did have a
very good eye for sighting his way
through the labor situation in Latin
America, but unless there is sound
program in relation to Latin American
labor we can lose some pretty impor-
tant rounds in hurry.
Isn't somebody missing the boat in
rather CHASTITY fashion? Maybe not, but
possibly yes.
With fighting men going through
about the toughest fighting the world
ever saw, maybe the home-tires boys
| might better get off their plush seats
and saw wood.
Probably labor will not be found
entirely guilt-free when the day Of
| final reckoning comes, either, in rela-
| ton to Latin America. Brother, what
a day that could be, perhaps!
When so many We're clamoring for
a second front. the second front was
| being put together, exploding right in
the faces of the irritated ones.
BUT, maybe the irritated ones are
right about some other things. Maybe
they're pretty darned right about
claiming air power to the army and
navy and maybe Billy Mitchell was
pretty darned right when he said
| Alaska should be the center of a Paci-
| tic war-and if so, why isn't it?
| These are possibly minor matters,
but they're on tongues and in minds in
a lot of places.
While the fighting forces are doing
miracles wherever they are 'in con-
tact" we need a vibrant, militant,
dynamic home front that knows what
to do because it has enough facts, that
knows what to think because it has
straight facts and that will man the
machines and do ali the jobs that have
to be done, with the same courage and
determination that the fighting men
are showing. Pabulum and bungling
don't help us to keep the home front
on its toes .-CMW.