The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-11-23

1t is an interesting circumstance
that no sooner had the election
written off some of our outstanding
lisolatoinists than the British censors
let US have the story of w.
Those who didn't know it before
may not know that there is forever
more no such thing as isolation in
war.
Today w is rather clumsy thing
"a flying telegraph pole that can be
aimed at large area, but that can
not be aimed at a true target.
But tomorrow!
| At this stage of World War | the
tank was a puny fore-runner of to-
days monster. The airplane was
feeble thing in comparison to the
great bombers and the lightning
| fighters of this war.
Let another war come and w can
start from Berlin and hit the Empire
State Building; or it can start from
Long Island and hit Berstedgaden-
or the Krupp works.
For while today the w weapon is
fired like an old fashioned rocket,
tomorrow's flying bomb will be aimed
as it flies, guided in the stratosphere
by radio control.
Chances are that we are not much
behind Berlin in developing rocket
weapons. All big nations know the
fundamentals.
If there is another war every ma
ton will have them-along with the
logical development of jet propelled
planes; or perhaps planes driven by
some yet unknown source of energy.
Just as a policeman in Miami has
just developed super FIN radio that
has no dead spots and is not DETECTED
by barriers, but goes straight through
them, without fading or anything to
mar the clarity of reception.
The speed of progress in such
things always increases geometrical-
ly. You can figure for yourself about
where we will be in another short ten
years.
Perhaps the American people, in
their recent voting sensed this thing;
this amazing rate of progress just
ahead.
And, if there is no more isolation
in war, neither is there in peace
For in peace the seeds of war are
sown.
We cannot isolate ourselves behind
tariff barriers any longer. Once we
could do that, but not now.
1t will be a part of our job to help
find ways to bring up the living
standards of the world, lest the
world gang up on us and pull down
our own standards.
There is today lot of talk about
better world There must be more
Ihan talk, for if there is only talk,
then shortly there will be a much
worse kind of a world, pulled into
further chaos by the rebellings of
peoples who are egged on either by
sheer hunger or by envy.
After a great war in the past the
most powerful nation could go calmly
lbout the business of exploiting to
he limit all other peoples. Not any
more, brothers; not any more.
We have passed that stage now and
he two great tokens of that passing
re the German flying bomb and our
'wn great election. 1t is satisfying
hat our contribution was one of
peaceful ways-the free election.
There remain few isolationists in
ur Congress. 1t is to be hoped that
hey will rightly interpret the hand
writing on the wall. But whether they
10 or not, they can no longer force
his nation into their narrow and
idiculous pathway.
Isolationism, which means living
elfishly apart, is done done for
eeps, in day of political awakening
nd of technical advance in long
ange killing that is as far ahead of
esterday as rifles were ahead Of
ows and arrows.
Let us harbor no foolish dreams of
lrning back from the direction we
ave now deliberately taken.-CMW.