The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-10

AS the hour of peace with Germany
draws nearer there is great speed
! ing up of talk about how we shall
manage our readjustment.' And also
great speeding up Nof the talk about
how the war guilty shall be punished
| AS for the individuals responsible
for the crime of this war, it doesn't
seem to make much difference what
happens to them.
1t isn't so very important whether
Hitler and his pals are hanged, shot,
put on exhibition or locked up as
crazy. What matters is that the sys-
TEN be destroyed. If the system isn't
destroyed it can produce a new crop
of individuals to lead.
The Nazis have tried to exterminate
peoples, so that reproduction of leaders
would be impossible. They have been
very thorough in their effort to elimi-
nate reproductive ability. The Allied
Nations must do that very thing to the
system represented by Hitler and
Mussolini.
We have tough job i'm both direc-
tions. A tough job in eliminating the
Nazi kind of society and a tough job
in readjusting our own affairs. The
future is full of problems.
America must readjust to meet the
situation that, with wars end, will
confront the civilian worker and it
must readjust to meet the situation
that will confront the returning sol
ders, sailors and marines.
The G. L. Bill of Rights is starter
for the service man. Soon after wars
end the lobbies will be at it hammer
and tongs to add things to that G. i.
Bill of Rights.
There must be no apple selling by
veterans this time
But the problem isn't ended there.
The country is filled with men and
women war workers, many of whom
have gone to far and strange places
to take their place in the machinery of
production. When their job ends, where
do they go?
You cannot face the situation as
something abstract You have to face
it as something alive, that will fight
back if it doesn't believe it is getting
a square deal.
There will be the war worker who
has been earning more money than he
or she ever earned before. And there
will be the 26-year-old major, back
from the wars, who also has been
earning mOret han he ever earned be-
fore. The jobs of both of them will
be ended. What comes then
The AZ who had to stay home and
who took war job and worked hard
at it may be thrown out to make way
for returning soldier come back to
claim the job he left.
The theory of readjustment may be
one thing-but the fact may be quite
else.
The thinking and planning for peace
has, by almost common consent, been
too little and probably too late.
One of the toughest phases of the
whole readjustment of both service
men and civilian may be, in thousands
Of cases, mental. That doesn't mean,
sick minds, but it does
mean minds that must be readjusted
The civilian who goes into the army
Is indoctrinated for war. Those who
come out of war must, in most cases
10 their own misunderstanding for
peace
No previous war has ever built up
so monumental. And many
never will realize the size of the prob
EN- until it hits, swiftly and nightly.
with the flashing word that Germany
S OUT for the count of ten.
For those who are able to do 1T,
here should be immediate planning.
YOU figure out as well as you can the
worst that can happen in the way of
iislocation and then the best you can
10 about it.
If those who can plan for themselves y
start doing it now, they may reduce
he total problem by great deal.
Put it this way: If Germany should
Ne knocked out by Oct. /, what would
YOU do to keep your own shoulders
bove water? Do you know? Can you
igure it out ?-CMW.