Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-25
The
Beam
WHO REMEMBERS?
By
Clayton w.
Fountain

OF the uLure IOudy.
Four hectic years have Zip
ped by since a famous flyer
hoped out of obscurity to
warn democracy that 1t was
to weak to resist the thun-
dering blitzkrieg of triumph
ant Fascism.
The famous flyer had been
permitted to look at the Luft-
waite. He was so impressed
that he decided it was i'm
possible for the democratic
nations to build up sufficient
military power to repel Hit
ler's mighty war machine.
Thus began the philosophy
of "The Wave of the Future.
The flyers wife put appease-
ment into poetry. Her mystic
little booklet, called "The
Wave of the Future" pur-
ported to prove that Fascism
was invincible, and that col
laboration with Hitlerism was
the only sound policy for sem
sible men.
But now look at ''The Wave
of the Future" 1t flows back
wards as a sluggish trickle,
in which its directors and
dupes founder for their lives.
STALINGRAD WALL
"The Wave" was first stop
ped at Stalingrad. There it
rolled up against the wall of
Russian heroism, and stopped
back to muddy the medals of
the Nazi generals.
Then "The Wave" was
swept out of Africa.
Today, in Italy, Poland and
France, "The Wave of the
Future" has become yester-
days bad dream-a washout.
But bad dreams are often
caused by unwise consump-
ton of indegestible foods. To
insure a permanent destruc-
ton of the philosophy of
"The Wave Of the Future" +"
we must improve our political
diets.
We must find out what
combination of political pickl-
ed pigs feet and theological
ice cream created the crazy
notion of Nazi invincibility.
SECRET LOVERS
The fact is that appease-
ment was kind of wish full
fillment. 1t flowed from the
yearnings of secret lovers of
FasciSm. These were sh
swains, afraid to declare their
passion openly; but the love
they felt for Fascism was
strong in their hearts.
They knew what they want
ed, these admirers of Fascism.
They had studied the record
of the Nazi system. Their
rules quickened when they
saw the efficiency of Nazi
techniques for smashing labor
unions.
In the dark of night, they
celebrated each new Nazi vic
tory by ecstaticaNly hHgging
their pillows.
They dreamed of a new or
der for America under "The
Wave of the FutureT To-
morrow belonged to them,
under some American Quis-
ling. No more labor unions.
No more minimum wag e
laws. No more soaking the
rich with taxes. No more agi-
tators shouting for repeal of
the poll-tax. No more nonsense
about racial equality. No more
New Deal, Oh, happy day!
STRANGE THING
Now the strange thing about
the war is that the bombs and
bullets destroying Hitlerism in
Europe have no effect on "The
Wave of the Future" dreamerS
in this country.
The secret lovers of Fascism
are still enraptured with
dreams of an America stripped
of labor unions and other dem
ocratic devices.
They are still counting the
image of dictatorship. They
are still pulling strings to
bring about the marriage of
Wall Street to Washington.
Theirs are the hands that pro-
woke wildcat strikes and write
sharp editorials denouncing
organized labor.
"The Wave of the Future"
recedes in Europe, but 1t
surges before the wind of
state rights" and free enter
prise" in America. Democracy
must stand up against it or
be drowned.