The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-25
Love Thy Neighbor-With
Moderation

We are not now attempting TO scare
up boogey-men which as yet have not
shown themselves but we entertain fear
ful speculation, at times, as to what will
be the postwar course of events for the
United States. We see this country as
q multitude of people like a vast bulk
that sways slightly in various directions,
at times, in accordance with the direction
Of the press of events upon it; yet fully
capable of standing firmly against any
such weight If test of its power is de-
manded.
The people that comprise this multi
tude - the individual worker in Water
bury's war shops, the patient farmer,
the detail-harried desk worker and all
Others that engender the nations pro-
ductive toll - they are conscious, now
Of the postwar era as a time when their
security, their need for employment and
painful occupation may be endangered,
and they think of that time only in terms
Of the United States.
Our leaders do not have any definite
plans for this era to come. You cannot
plan for an unknown future. But we
wonder what scale of balance they now
think feasible for future use in measur-
ing the needs of this country and its peo-
pie against the needs of the rest of the
world and the people there-and the
INTERPRETATION of both.
We undoubtedly must enter into field
of internationalism heretofore unknown
to us or such a scale. Events of this
war such as out actual participation
on foreign lands; our binding loans of
Lend Lease; our pacts and treaties and
our associations of freedom for all OPP
pressed people for all times - these, have
welded us to the international scene SO
that we can never again withdraw to any
previous position without labelling our
selves as hypocrites
The point of fearful speculation with US
now, in view Of all this, is what of
American; and to lift the sheets from a
not yet cold corpse, - we refer to Amer
lea first. Consideration of its people and
their welfare, of the nations economic
health should be foremost in line with
the old grandfatherly belief that "you
amt much good to anyone else unless
you are some good to yourself, first.
It shall take decades to again reclaim
Q reasonably sound Europe and the
Eastern world, and we here must be
Watchful lest well meaning but not too
practical idealists among our leaders in
sist that we, in this United States, must
either maintain the painful pace OF those
slow years of rebirth SO as not to have
q lopsided world machine, or else demand
that we sweat almighty to hasten the
convalescence.
The people of the United States will
first look to the leaks in their own roofs
Our leaders of the postwar era must
foresee just that, for such precaution is
instinctiyely human and should not be
forbidden or frustrated, Love thy neigh
Dor is an noble endeayor but the Lord
meant Its practice to be with moderation.
Let us prepare now for well bolstered
America which shall have all its matches
hattened down for the storms that may
be on the way,
All of this, we know is anything but
finished blueprint for workable pro-
gram, However, its contentious could be
proper dimension lines of the framework
within which some workable blueprint
could be drawn