The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-04-05

1t is fair to believe that war with
Germany nears its fateful end
There may be months of guerilla
warfare; but large-scale war seems
to be smashing the German army into
a condition so helpless that large re-
sistance cannot much longer be
staged.
The process of German disintegra-
tion is visible, even from here.
The San Francisco Conference will
be able to gaze upon foe, either
beaten or approaching obvious help
lessness.
We need to think now, deeply, and
to prepare ourselves with a mental
discipline that will hold us steady in
the weeks and months following the
crushing of the Nazi foe.
Mass hysteria is SO easy to have
and so destructive in its results that
it must be prevented if possible.
1t will not do to lose our sense of
balance and proportion when Ger
many is beaten.
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So many millions have been under
restraints for so long that there will
be a great temptation to defy all re-
straint when We day comes. Too
many are likely to say, "Well, the
war is over; why have war restraints
any longer?" Or, they will put it
more briefly: "The hell with every
thing"
That will be stupid way of think
ing and acting. But, it is far easier
not to think than it is to think.
If members of mobs ever thought,
even little, there never would be a
mob.
When Germany is knocked out the
war will NOT be over. Restraints
cannot be erased We cannot all do
just as we please.
If we were not at war with Ger
many, but only with Japan, we know
much more and feel much more deep
ly the cost and effort of the war with
the japanese barbaric people.
We shall have a first grade war
still on our hands when Germany is
finished.
For THAT, we must keep our
heads.
True enough, the war with Japan
is also going well. But Japan has a
great army and it can fight on over
a long period, at great cost to Us.
We shall have to sit bit steady
in the boat, unless we want to in
crease the cost of the war with Japan.
But there is more than that in the
picture of the future.
Ending Of the war with Japan will
not be like the ending of World War
When World War | ended there
was a great hue and cry to get the
boys home in the shortest possible
And that was done.
But when this war ends in Ger
MANY the boys will not be brought
home in a rush.
We shall have great armies of our
own men to feed and clothe and sup
ply with all manner of things for
months and months and perhaps for
years.
We are not to end this war, in its
effects upon US, at any given hour OF
any given day.
There will be clap-trap politicians
in Washington and recently we
have been able to see about how
many - who will seize upon any
senseless slogan to get headlines and
to store up the votes of bigotry for
the future.
There will be business men who
look first at profit and second at
country. And there will be - for
they cannot all be saints - labor
leaders who will be just as stupid and
just as selfish for power and prestige,
often to be gained through nothing
sounder than nuisance value.
1t will be the people - John and
Bill and Jane-who will have to keep
their heads when the great day comes.
We can rock to it's roots the econ
omy of our nation and we can en-
danger the next decade, just by be-
ing shallow minded and nit-witted;
just by yielding to the crazy yelping
of mob leader.
Or we can help our country to go
through the hard process of winning
the other war and getting our econ
omy back to a civilian basis with re-
straint, Judgment and orderly action,
based upon thinking soundly. Which
will it be?-CMW.