Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20
What's
New?
By
Edward Duck
With The 10Th
Regt. in
Germany


ards may be found in the
words of a statement by Oscar
Wilde, who said:
"The longer / live the more
keenly I feel that whatever
was good enough for our faith
ers is not good enough for
u.s."
There it is. Read it over
and over, and you'll have the
best postwar plan in the world
firmly implanted in your
mind. These words kick an old
bugaboo in the pants, and
erase lot of false philosophy
that some of us might have
fallen for at some time or an
other.
Lots of people believed in
Wilde's thought before this
time, or we would not be the
nation that we are. They re-
allied that there is no such
thing as standing still - you
either went forward or back
ward.
True, there have been dam
gerous radicals-like Lincoln,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and
Henry Wallace - men who
disturbed the status quo by
helping the underdog. These
were wicked men. T hey
favored "class legislation"
Your ancestors lived in the
day when the waltz was con-
sidered wicked, too. And just
a few years ago, in the twen-
tieth century, what a stir the
Castles caused in daring to
bring their sensuous dance
team arrangements before the
mice people,"
TIMES CHANGE
Yes, times change. The 48
hour week was a dream. But
it became a reality, and the
Nation did not go to pot
either, like the wise men said
it would. The 40-hour week
was technocracy, pure and
simple and the American peo-
pie had better have made up
their minds whether they
were going to work or loaf.
But 1t came to pass, and still
the wheels of progress kept
rolling in an effort to undo
the damage the Hooverites
had caused by their greed,
conservatism and laundering.
We Day has come and gone.
Does it mean anything to you?
1t should. You are living in
the closing days of an old era.
Within short time you will
hear radio announcements and
newsboys' cries telling you
that peacetime is here-may-
be not tomorrow or next
week, but it could very well
occur before next Christmas.
Or does it? Leo Cherne,
businessmen's advisor and
economic expert de luxe, head
of the Research Institute of
America, foresees the posi-
bility of America experienc-
ing dire calamities, including
up to 16 million postwar un-
employed, among them a sad
lot of disillusioned veterans,
and race riots and political
chaos. This bright young man
has batted 100 percent in pre-
dieting past decisions of the
Supreme Court, and has
prophesized many a thing to
come. Let us hope he is mis-
taken this time.
The next few years will tell
the tale. rhe next ten years
will shape the future for the
following generations. These
coming months will be the
most important of all, be-
cause the groundwork will be
laid and the masterplan in
volving the economic future
of the American people will
have been formulated.
Past experience has shown
that when John and Jane Doe
accepted the popular fallacy
that respected economists and
business experts alone should
be entrusted with the task of
caring for the flock and
ameliorating the social and
economic ailm en- ts of the
masses, they learned too late
that these gentlemen were not
nearly so much concerned
with the common good as they
were with the problem of pro-
tecting their fortunes and
controlling" wild inflationary
spirals-which it seems could
only be caused by such fool
hardy expenditures as ap-
preparations for bonuses for
the soldiers of World War /
and for the millions of under
nourished families of the un-
employed, those lazy loafers
who wouldn't work if they
had a job, according to your
home town newspaper editors
and others.
No, John and Jane Doe, and
you and ! can be the masters
of our own fate. individually
we do not amount to a tink-
er's darn, but collectively we
represent a formidable op-
ponent for the people who are
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