The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-03-15

We are going at high speed into
new world.
| We are going into a world that for
years will be filled with amazing new
machines and devices travelling side
by side with world battle for food,
shelter and clothing.
The war itself has brought new
machinery for destruction. Cities can
be leveled as cities never were
levelled before. Men can be killed in
such numbers as never happened be-
fore. The tools by which men make
their living can be destroyed as never
before.
Europe is a charnel house of de-
struction. The mark of hunger is on
millions.
The tasks of peace will be Her
culean. Not only must the world try
to learn to live by law, by agreement,
| by compromise; but in the midst of
the greatest peace experiment in all
history, it must try to build back the
tools, the machines, the houses and
the soil for the job of staying alive.
So, we are going into new world
of mixed and tremendous problems,
finding way of peace and also way
Of life.
And while the primeval struggle toe
live goes on in SO much of the world, !
there also will be the fruits of the
wars scientific findings, expressed in
devices that will tighten many a
piece of toll and that will add new
luxury where luxury can be afforded
Along with Italy's struggle for
bread there will be our vast expan-
sion of, for example, air conditioning,
quick freezing and television, not to
mention cooking by electronics and
the lifting of great burdens by the
same almost mysterious means.
Where one spot on the globe fights
for more shelter, another spot will
enjoy such marvels as never were
dreamed of in the lushest Arabian
nights.
So, let us beware of jealousies and
the greeds of desperation. Let US
know that where there is hunger,
there must hunger be appeased. Let
us know that there must be under
standing and tolerance and care for
justice to others.
1t is well, indeed, that the struc-
ture of tomorrow is being planned to-
day, for if we were to wait until to-
morrow it might well be impossible to
either plan or build
Humanity can get very crazy and
1T can be very unreasoning.
There isn't much to reason about
when you are very hungry, anyway.
Henry Wallace once got himself q
roundly denounced and even laughed
at for suggesting, as figure of
speech, that there must be a quart of
milk for every child.
But there was a basic truth in what
Henry Wallace said
He probably was thinking of
human fairness and Justice, but also
ne may have been thinking of insur-
ance and precaution, such as every
prudent person thinks about in rela-
ion to his own home, his job or his
business.
You don't, if you are wise, allow a
menace to build up to a point where
t may destroy what you have, or
where it may threaten your own life.
There is such thing as intelligent
Our danger, in looking toward to-
morrow, is that cheap politicians and
with shibboleths that
sound great but mean nothing, may
POISON the minds of people and lead
Q the undoing of good plans.
That has happened before. Tragic
lily, it happened after the end of the
rst world war.
AT the close of the war great fac
cries will begin making airplanes
hat will carry as many as 200 per-
ons. That is a simple thing to say
ut it is packed with great social and
meaning.
We cannot live in the kind of world
'e had before the war, because~
cience has forever ended that kindN
{ world.
We must, whether we like it or not,
Ian to live in a new kind of world
much smaller world, in point of
peed and communication.
We need to do our best planning.
we fail, then may come wars that
I'll destroy so vastly as to end for
undreds of years any hope of con
nued civilization. Quite literally, we
ok forward under tremendous
treats We must not foil CMM