Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-12-30

Pvt John r. Naglicl1 Hack Ma
gell was the Modern Crusaders or
chestra leader q dacade ago. He
was also singing conductor OF vari-
ous~ Slovene clubs prior TO the In
duction into the Army.
The writer, as private in the United
States Army for the past Is months
overseas. has met many men and per-
sonalities. Living eating and sleeping
with Army personnel, he has observed
how contiguous were the common at
titude. Almost instructive knowledge
of the average and cross-section of
people that make up the Armed Forces
is that this war, like any wars previ-
ously, is business. Business as usual!
But they add: Hell! We will win the
war just the samel And when we go
back home and don't get what we want
and need, may God help someone!'
G. I. Joe has discovered and listens
to the more fortunate and informed
individuals Of the fast pace set by sci
ence and engineering eof course to his
amazement). He has become ac-
quainted with the technology employed
by the Army, technology which he new
er knew existed. He Is acquiring new
habits, collective in thinking, effort and
action. He is slowly inhibiting and
abandoning the senile il1diyidualistic
trend Of thought and dreams, if you
please. He now realizes how applicable
science and technology are to the post
war methods of operation. +.
The magnitude of the new experience
and ideas is anticipated in the post
war world in different concept than
he had before That new concept is
differential and growing into body
of thought. Who was it that said:
You cannot kill an idea?' Joe has
obligingly crawled out Of his SNUG COM
placency and claque at that. In
cherishing freedom and liberty, he was
tough, and, by the way, fighting for
same. But what happened? AS he
crawled out Of the shell he suddenly
saw light, mountains, valleys, rivers,
forests, technology functioning, and res
sources (material and energy-devel-
oped and potientiaD, that the North
American Continent has bestowed upon
it's people. And he exclaims, Well,
hell! This is the freedom and liberty
we are fighting for!'
Discussions of all types-discursive
and with continuity, but all construc-
tive, and above all in physical sense,
not philosophical created by the
fact that men are learning to live.
They live( eat, sleep, and work togeth-
er This is experience and training of
new habits most men didn't realize be-
fore. Joe does question: Why are We
fighting this war? How does and will
technology in the near future affect our
way of living? What does money value
and property mean?' The average
soldier, along with most of the wound
ed, expresses his attitudes and strong
opinions that are anti-business and
anti-politics. He reads. anything he
can, many subjects and articles not
even glanced at prior to his awaken
ing, all the while asking himself and
many others to learn more and in
order to confirm his new thoughts.
He goes on: How about postwar
employment? Why should civilians at
home make more and above all keep
their privileges to profit, to bargain,
to choose their own assignments etc.
Why not have all citizens serve the
same as soldier? Would that be too
patriotic?' Why don't they promote
more of the many inventions now to
shorten the war? (They tell and write
how practical they are for post-waD
How about the Flying Wing that Tech
nocracy designed? Why don't they
produce the damn thing and get this
war over with? A hellish war at that
All in In all, these discussions are on
economics, engineering, science, sociol-
ogy technology, and yes, even Techno-
cracy. BY receiving more information
and reading current events from all
types of magazines and books, their
discussions become too numerous to
mention, let alone write them in ella
borate detail or story life-like reading,
which would involve much time and
too many volumes. However, at any
rate, it definitely does indicate the
American is becoming concerned and
feels responsible to investigate and get
into actien, for when Joe comes march
ing home he will want the New Amer
ica he has fought for.
Following is memo published in the
'Cockatoo' "a New Guinea News oper-
ated by the G. I.'s), which was written
by one Anne Campbell:
when the Boys Come Back
feel sorry for q phony,
When the boys come back from war;
For the boys will spot phony
Like they never did before.
The crusade the boys are waging
Is a bitter one and long.
There is no place for Weakling;
He will fall before the strong.
Face to face with death, and graphing
With its grim reality,
To our boys there comes a vision,
It Is naked Truth they see
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