The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07

Sometimes ReckIessly.
Just so that the city slicller won't
have anything on this one, it is the
plan this week to indulge in predic-
tions about 1913.
1t will be a hard year. That is, it
will be hard year, in comparison to
our recent peace-time years. 1t will be
especially hard for those who have
been accustomed to having great
deal of everything.
For great many who have been
accustomed to having very little, it
may turn out to be a very good year.
For the men in the fighting services
lit will be war-and whatever may be
the conditions at home, they'll be a
thousand times better off in the matter
of food and comforts than are those
men who have the war to win by
fighting.
Let's quit beefing about such things
as rationing, which really means
sharing evenly
What about the war? Will it end in
1943?
Well, to take chance: Italy prob
ably will go out of the war within six
months - unless Germany has infil-
trated more than is commonly believed
Even then Italy may check out
Germany can be licked this year. 1t
isn't safe to bet that she will be. But
licked finally or not, Germany will
take one gosh awful beating this year.
Just one tremendous pulverizing.
The fact that no United Nations
troops are yet on German soil doesn't
make any difference in this day of air
power. Allied planes are over Ger
many and they will be there more and
more, with increasing blasting power.
IF we can learn the full lesson of
the use of air power as separate
power in separate element, air power
may sweep Germany into annihihtion
before the year ends.
Pass the ammunition and hope for a
1943 knockout, but don't let down on
the theory that we are near the end
IT'S GOT TO BE FULL SPEED
AHEAD!
What about Japan? Japan probably
can and will last longer than Germany,
for many reasons, too involved for dis
cussiOn here.
Fanaticism has something to do with
lit. Distance also counts. China's in
crasing wallOp will help more and
more. But we just cannot count on
licking Japan this year.
So, we can look forward and we
must to year and more of war-war
that calls for every ounce of every
thing we can produce.
New weapons may help. We cannot
know what, if any, new weapons may
be in store.
The Pacific Coast announces an air
gun to fire ten thousands rounds per
minute in silence. Maybe.
We have one marvellous new gun in
action in Africa. Who knows what may
come, or what effect it may have
That's among the unknowables that
can muddle any and all predictions.
x + 4
Will AFL and CIO amalgamate?
Doesn't look like it. Most folks don't
sufficiently understand the tremendous
problems involved. Also there are a
few ambitions to be reconciled.
Latin America will become more and
more important. United States labor
doesn't seem to fully grasp the fact,
but may, all of a sudden. We must
know Mexico, Central America and
Brazil especially well. 81, amigo y
companeros.
Strikes will become more and more
unpopular 1t will take little more to
bring retalitory, restrictive legislation.
NOTHING justities stOppage of
production. NOTHING WHATEVER!
We are in such a war as man never
dreamed about and its demands are
imperative.
There you have few gllesses-they
can be nothing mOre-abOut 1943 It's
probably not much use trying to look
ahead, but if some folks had looked
ahead sooner and had seen more clear
ly, we might have been spared some
Of the humiliation of the last 13
months
And so, to all of you who are pa
tient enough to read this column,
victorious and Happy New Year