The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-12-23

Out of all the news about battles and
international conferences, the school
kids must be learning Il lot OF geog-
raphy.
Today world geography goes with
the days news and there's no escape
For the kids who can't read, there's
the radio.
News the other day gave everyone
an education all over again on what
parts of the earth 90 to make up the
japanese Empire.
When it came out of Cairo (Which
radio announcerS yariously call kaNro
and kyro) that the Jap Empire is to
be stripped down to it's island size, as
it was when American WarShips for
the first time scared the hell out of the
nips, lot of half forgotten names
came into the geographical picture.
Japan is going to be forced TO give
up all the conquered lands-and what
a list when you get it all down! And
again, so that most everyone can pass
an examination with grades of at least
80. Finally they will bob UP when the
peace treaty II if it is IL treaty is
drawn for signing.
It's one way to learn geography
and not the happieSt way. But at least
it sinks in.
THOUSANDS of American families will
remember about the plains of Rome be-
cause American boys are dying there.
And TaraWa--whoever heard of the
place until American forces rolled up
the aweSome total of losses! But
Tarawa isn't likely to be forgotten for
a long time.
There's Il radio program called 1.-The
name YOU will remember" But here,
all over the great map of the world,
are names by the score and you'll re-
member them.
Tarawa, Teheran, Stalingrad, For
mosa, the Burma Road, Chungking,
Guadalcanal.
Some of them rough. with square
corners; some o them rounded and
musical, like the Spanish names in
Florida and California and the Indian
names in Wisconsin.
But, ladies and gentlemen, names
you will remember all your lives.
Today these places names are set
out for us by the great dOings Of war.
They are names dragged out of OBJ
l.it tN NV hp ,E Efrl,t
ing forces, or by the conferences of
heads of state busy with the affairs of
war.
Tomorrow they will get another kind
of fame, on whatever it may be, by the
facts that surround the ending of the
War-Of one of the wars.
And later on, the ending of the other
war. For we fight two wars at once
and they Will not end at The same time
The conferences thus far held DO
not make clear what fateS may be in
store for some of the lands of which
we read noW-What fHtcS will come
to them when Germany is beaten down
and later when Japan is beaten back
to her little string of islands.
We do not know whether there will
be Il free Poland. or if there is one
how big it will be Nor do we know
about several Baltic states.
If Japan is to lose her field of con-
quest, what then of them?
We do know one thing-0ur own ma
ti0n has no appetite for conquered
lands and will have none OF them.
our own course is fixed and nothing
Will change it.
But we don't know too much about
what the rest of the world may do.
We know, perhaps. least of all what
Russia will do, or try To do.
We say freely what W" will do
others are not yet 50 candid.
Perhaps it may take another decade
and perhaps even another War-how-
ever terrible that may >oumd-to set Il
final course everywhere toward free
dom.
The world hopes for peace that Will
laSt-and there are good signs that it
may work out 50. But we would be
foolish indeed if we were to blind our
selves to the fact that evil and greed
die hard and that treaties are not al
ways kept.
Some of this sinks into rs as we
learn geography through war.
As the United Nations fight hard TO
win, SO will they have to think hard
and plan mighty we'll for the structure
and the vigilance that Will open for
keeps the road TO freedom for battered
world humaMy.-CMW.