The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-03-09
WIN THE WAR, AND WIN THE
PEACE
BY j. K. Jones

Washington, D. c., March 9Th
broad detectives of our times are 70
win the wars and to agree with the
civilized United Nations on practical
programs and plans to win the peace.
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stain have
come to the point and hewed close tt
the line of that double-goal.
The Is nations represented at the
Mexico City Conference have tackled
economic, social, international trade
and great variety of subjects. The,
have sought to create IAN economiu
harter for the Americas" and to
wrap up Canada in the package while
that neghbor of ours continues to re
main a part Of the british Empire
Two or three of the South American
Nations remain under suspicion, an
perhaps they wouldn't care except
or the fact that they want to be on
he inside when the United States
itarts the plan to reduce the trade
carriers by shoveling in billions of
.ollars to make the Breton Woods
currency sterilization and world
Jank plans reality.
The Mexican Conference favored
rec trade, free lending of money to
IT least IS of the Latin-American
ountries, and it also made careless
gestures to support elimination of
economic nationalism in all it's
.orms"
Confusion, chaos, and carelessness
increase as new Charters thereby re-
solve" since the Atlantic Charter de-
Jared that a peace would be estab-
.ished (which will afford to all ma
ions the means of dwelling in safe
Y within their own boundaries"
No man or woman knows, or can
predict, how this world
mess will ever be Strengthened out.
But, aren't we all about ready to adj
nit that there isn't enough wealth
N the American Continent to finance
md "grubstake" the people of the
World to whom we are the main fac
,or in helping restore safety within
heir own boundaries"
Can we possibly expect to accom-
plish more?
AS Tomorrow Becomes Today
In June, 1913, the National Indus
sries News Service released an item
quoting predictions about postwar
homes by Charles A. Miller, director
of tie department of architecture
of International Correspond n e
Schools. One prediction was that it
might be possible to crate a house
and move the whole structure by car
go plane.
On February 26, 1945, the New
York World Telegram carried a
Science Service dispatch from Wright
Field, Ohio, announcing that the Air
Technical Service Command has de-
veloped a two-room hospital shelter
which can be transported by air in
two-thirds the cargo space of CAT
airplane. 1t is substantial building
with one room sixteen feet square
and one eight feet square, accommo-
dating twelve patietns with dispen-
sary and space for operations, one
model designed for the Arctic and an
other for the tropics. Thus the vision
of '43 becomes the life-saving reality
of AS.
Recently it has been the vogue to
debunk postwar prophecy. We are
told that many predictions are fan
tastic, that others will be realized
only after many years, if at all, and
that we should do better to tend to
our wartime knitting than to blow
postwar soap-bubbles. The air-borne
hospital ought to cure some of this
cynicism. 1t testifies that even fantas-
tic dreams may have the stuff of real
ity and that such dreams can help
win the war.
America has grown great not by
debunking vision but by turning it
into fact AS was pointed out in the
article on Mr.. Miller's predictions in
1913, much of the vision that has
led the way to achievement has come
from our great schools and colleges.
There is a special fitness when such
grasp of the future appears in vo-
cational institution like International
Correspondence Schools, for those
schools must deal with probabilities.
SO, too, must the Army, whose tech
nicians conceived the idea and found
the way of flying a hospital building
wherever it may be needed
That is why the episode is so char
acteristically American, for our
whole history is the story of practi-
cal men who dreamed fantastic
dreams.