Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-17
It's News
To Me
By O. ]. Pecord
CONFUSION


Defeat Japan announced last Tuesday by President Tro
still recent that the confusion resulting from it had
peced the point where get clear picture
of what is happening or what going to occur IN the immediate
future.
things certain, a. Large unemployment is
begin and apparently will continue until reconverson
berome placid stupid emergency which is about
to affect the lives and living of millions of people
What labor has feared has now taken place is an ac
compshed fact just pointed in its challenge Hters
occupation of the land of the other nations prior to the invasion
Triumph American brings before the workers and
labor leaders of this country set of problems which must
absolutely dealt with The sudden termination of the
finds the position which many feared would occur
We not prepared for peace
SOMEBODY KNEW
Somebody in government must have known the posi-
bie contained in the atomic bomb They must have been
the fact that this revolutionary contained the
possibilities of forcing quick termination to the war yet de-
spite this knowledge Army and Navy heads obstruced recon
version and civilian production at time when we could have
gained at least two three months in preparing for normal
peacetime production.
Somebody the administration must have realized that the
atomic bomb would ruin the Japs effort and send them
STILL nobody made attempt to prevent the hot and weary
Congress from dsbandg and seeking cooler cmes where tired
statesmen could relax while the crisis was IN
And so we find ourselves in the midst of situation upon
which far remains silent tells us the things
believe want to hear Who the hell cares
gasoline raoning they obless trying to
exc subsistence upon lousy SIS to $23 week?
How much gasoline will buy who trying to raise fam
lily the dsgraceul pance allowed by grateful state to
those who worked six and seven days week and IN many
10 or more hours daily?
fruits vegetables point free
when they face the prospect of immediate loss of their jobs and
aside tide them over for three or period Oh oD
essness?
young guy 26 years of gets excited when he
further fear of being drafted when
the of being bumped off his job together
with thousands of other young fellows? -
What soldier faces the prospect of being discharged win
satisfaction when he realizes that he is coming
situation which may be than his father
following the end of the to make the world cafe Tor
democracy?
WHERE is CONGRESS
Why reconvenng Congress held until Septem
Der 5h? If this country attacked today there
would difficulty getting the legislative louts back to
and promise everything the boys and the workers
And unemployment and the misery and want which go with
ii not aggreSsor?
All of these things evidence that the surely over
All of these ang tactics This vast COB of silence which issues
Washington this ndecison uncertainty which has
fallen this early in the is almost enough to
make the most trusting ponder and ask questions looks
like the march to that Land of nor
mac for which President gave his life and for which our
lords-o all they-su to be bent.
Yes the is Congress proves Silence proves it.
The calm of holiday before the storm it. The
actions bgwgs it. The facts of history prove
it We way But going?
1t takes than Al months of unhealthy wartime pros
ceded the battles H. So hours
and beer the house their memories
from the unemployment of the 1t will only take
them few weeks to rknde those and in the recall
determine that again will they stand by and look at
themselves deterorang in the dry rot of unemployment and
feel the deadenng fingers of hunger their bellies
These not the words of wdeyed radical Marx
6 but the sentiments of the American who now awaits
calmly for his that there shall not De
another depression not temporary in land whlc
had the and genius the nations neao
start and beat them at their