The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-07-20
THE OSCAR PURKEY
BLUEPRINT FOR PEACE
no tlhe Peacemakers :

TO tine Fe@Cem0kerSs
This Is a Blueprint for Peace
which me and some Of my buddies
made up out Of our own heads on
account Of we think If we have not
got no right to have views on a
peace who has7
A GIL. gets the creeps at the
thought Of an old style peace made
from the 1919 pattern and enforced
no better than 'No Smoking signs
In subways, and nothing gives him
the heebie-jeebies like the chance
another peace will turn out to be
just a rest period in a slaughter
house.
Me and my buddies has done a
lot of talking with others and found
they all think the same way which
is that the job of making bright
new world is not going to get no.
where without the following specifi-
cations:
l. The abolition of baloney, bunk,
goose grease, applesauce and what
is commonly called "the old ma
larkey" from all deliberations.
2. No double talk. (This means
positively
8. Night and day illumination Of
the goal posts. (And no dinming
Of the lights to secretly move the
posts.)
4. A realization of the fact this
world cannot exist half man and
half rat. Given a per cent rat
quota Is too high.)
5. The same courage by peace
makers that was expected Of men
In the fighting planes, mountain
passes, jungles, split trenches and
foxholes, and ON all the oceans Of
the world.
6. The blitzing of any disposition
to gamble the future Of the world
on policy of expediency. No walk
ing in our prewar sleep and no
sleeping on our postwar walks.
Z. The creation Of some Organiza-
ton to safeguard the peace by
armed cooperation against interna-
ti0nal cut-thr0ats. You can't keep
out of no free-for-all brawl by pull
ing down the shades and humming
"Hearts and Flowers"
8. The constant realization that
such organization must come in
on a backbone and wallop and not
on a paper wing and prayer. One
more Geneva rabbit rhumba will
make the alert signal the main de-
pendence of civilized man.
8. An approach to all problems In
the spirit Of King David and never
in the spirit Of Mickey Mouse.
10. The creation Of League Of
Nations that never mistakes dou-
BILE chin for muscle and don't think
backbone is something to be
shown only by strip-teasers.
II. A pledge by the four great
Powers to cement relations (but
never confuse cement with bubble
gum) and to stay in the lineup to the
finish no matter who comes to bat.
IL. No determination to force the
American, British or Russian way
Of life on anybody else. "a way Of
life is not NO nightshirt or no derby
hat. A realization Of the fact that
any peoples way Of life looks screwy
to the other fellow, regardless Of
the fact 1t may have more gadgets,
subways, escalators and cr0oners.)
10. We must not let no war lord
escape on the ground he didn't get
the right vitamins.
IA. We all got to keep our noses
clean together or we will all 60 to
the cleaners separately. The big
question before the peace commits
sions is whether we get happier
world out Of this war or just slap
happier one.
IS. All peacemakers should keep
pasted in their hats the idea that if
we ever have another war the ques-
ton will not be "What'n we do
now?" but "What hit us?" And
they got to realize through things
like the vi, va and vs. bombs,
that another global fracas will be
combination Of Dante's Inferno"
and 1.-THE Last Days Of Pompeii,"
with a goosefesh radio scenario by
Orson Welles chucked in for extra
creeps.
OSCAR PURKEY, Pfc.
(From Private Purkey's Private Peace"
by permission Of the publishers. G. p. Put