The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-01-06

Sometimes RecklessIy.
We move into the New Year and it
| is eXpected-or at least we think it IS
| that those who write columns will
have something to say about the inn
pending arrival of that space of time
| referred to so often as the Infant Year.
Now all this stuff about the Infant
| Year is just SO much twaddle, because
50 far as time itself is concerned, Jan.
| | is just as mature as Dec. 81.
What makes the difference between
the end of one year and the start OF
another is that business men start new
reckonings in their books, Uncle Sam
dates most of his income tax assess
ments from Jan. |, and farmers start
thinking about whether their feed will
hold out and what will they plant or
SOW next spring.
Winter neither ends nor begins on
Jan. 1. And lately we have been told
that the "a D. part of our calendar
is also all wrong; that the best evil
dence now is to effect that 1914 ought
to be numbered something like 1859,
which makes us all rather out of date,
doesn't it?
Well, anyway, we're having some
thing of q New Year column, even if it
doesn't have too much sense.
But lets get down to cases now and
| carry on the business of conforming
to type. What's going to happen in
1914?
Well, here are some of the things
that are going to happen in 1914:
The European continent will be in
vaded;
| On the heels of invasion, Germany
viii be Knocked out;
Because of Russian influence the
German collapse will not be complete
| unconditional surrender, but something
of cross between that and negotia-
tiOnS after an armistice, with the
United Nations doing the most of the
negotiating;
Sharp differences will arise between
England and the United States on the
one hand and Russia on the other over
the future government of Germany and
future status of the Baltic and Balkan
states. Maybe not inSOluble, but serious.
|
| Is that all?
| BY no means. Here is more:
| Japan will be thrown out of the
Philippines and the Jap islands will be
| bombed plenty:
The Gahndi influence in India will
wane, but Indian freedom will come
nearer;
WeStbrook Pegler will continue to
| hate unions and Eleanor Roosevelt,
only more;
More bungles like the railway wage
matter will happen, but somehow the
country will survive its damphoolS;
Pro NaZi sentiment and machina-
tions, such as those exposed in "Under
Cover will continue to tester and fer
ment in and around Chicago and the
Chicago Tribune will not change its
spots;
Franklin ID. Roosevelt Will run again
unless the war is ended in the next
| three months
| Shall we 90 ON? Why not? SO, lets.
More things To happen include:
More parents Will wonder why the
| boys and girls married so young, with
Johnny leaving right away for the
wars which means that more parents
will keep on trying to shape the lives
of men and women old enough to fight
and perhaps die, all OF which seems
rather ridulouS:
More boys and girls will say, that's
what we want TO do and by %OIly that's
what we WILL do WhereupOn that's
| what they DO and romance scores over
both war and parents who were not
wise enough to build Il world in Whica
this damn war couldn't happen;
| The end Of the year will roll around
and people, many of them stricken with
great grief. will smile and say to their
friends Merry Christmas to you and
also Happy New Iear"-and if YOU
save this column you can either say
the score was pretty good, or else that
it was very bad. And that will be that
and Il very Happy New Year TO YOU
my friends.-a very Happy New Year,
what with the war and all-CMW.