The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-05-11
LABOR CANNOT WAIT UNTIL SHOOTIN' Is
OVER TO MAKE PEACETIME PLANS

lWHEN WILL this war end? A great many
! ~ persons are asking that question.
| Some are. asking it because they are worried
about planning for after the war. Some are ask
ling it because they are tired of the war. Some are
jasking it because they are concerned about what
! kind of world we shall have when the war is
lover.
| Nobody knows when the war will end, nor
|what kind of an ending there will be. How shall
we fix the date of the wars end?
| We are at war with several nations, principal
lily Germany and Japan. When the war with Ger
many is ended, all of our European enemies will
be licked. That will be that. But how long will
Ibe the period between German admission of de-
feat and the day on which we can have all of our
Imen back home in security?
The end of this may very well be an end
that could be best described as ragged-no clean
cut, II a. m. ending Maybe that won't be the
way, but it could be- But to get back to chow
long" . That may be decided by HOW the war
ends. Some look for crack in morale Others
expect Germany to quit when her natural re-
sources are so dried up that fighting material
cannot be had Still others expect her bases to be
so blown up that no stream of raw material could
keep armament in action. Perhaps there will be
"a combination of the two latter reasons - too
much blown up, not enough raw material coming
in For example, when the iron mines of Lorraine
are gone, Germany will be hard put to it for iron
A lot of bases have been blown up already.
1t could take long time for an invading army
to cut off the supplies of vital raw materials. But
a combination of cutting off and blowing up might
work fairly fast If you cut the rail lines by which
raw materials are transported you strike just
about as hard if you captured the materials. If
you make water routes untenable you have cut
off supplies.
There is reason to believe that the streams of|
bombers over Germany thus far observed do notl
at all indicate the size of the armadas that will
lily over when invasion starts SO, we come againl
to the point of not knowing when the war will
end But even if morale cracks, it will be the tre-
mendous hammer blows of invasion that will endI
what is about to happen. 1t looks as if Germany
slams and from ourselves. We do not know when,
but we do know there is no eff"
Labor has great stake in knowing when ifI
only it were movable.
Labor has plans to make.
Labor will then have a new kind of front toI
Labor will then have new internal issues and
new international issues to face.
1t will need great craftsmanship, far and away
above the whats my cut" attitude of little and
tawdry minds
Time to think about that is NOW-or sooner
There will be plenty of influence to try to swing
us back to the good old days." which really were
not good. There will be too little trying to swing
us ahead.
But if we do not go ahead to reap the fruits
Of today's great Visions then we shall have lost
a great part Of the war We shall have preserved
our opportunity TO go forward, but not the ac-
tuaty of motion. Much is in the balance as we
wonder when the war will end. HOW will we
confront that day?