The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-07
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The Navy will blow up nearly 100
ships with atomic bombs-and radar
flies to the moon and back.
Meanwhile too many men think the
little thoughts of century ago.
Isn't it strange?
For long time people have made
fun of certain King Canute, who
walked down to the edge of the ocean
and tried to sweep it back with a
broom
Well, he was funny, but he wasn't
any funnier than people today who
think they can trot along and think
along just as they did before science
changed the whole outlook of the
world and all of the people thereon.
When that atomic bomb lets loose
on the fleet out in the Pacific, some
thing new may very well be entered
on the books of the world. Something
terrific.
Those who think maybe it's just
another explosion are all wet.
Radar going to the moon and back
in matter of seconds may not sound
so very important to John Doe, but
it is!
1t is important, in a big way, be-
cause it is another step in creating
a new world-a new world in which
there must be new rules of conduct
new relationship between peoples, new
respect for law.
A crazy fool can run out with a
gun and break the law against MUIR
der and probably one dead person is
the worst that happens-one or two
generally no more.
But a crazy fool with a satchel
full--or plane full-of atomic bombs
on the loose is quite something else
again, if he breaks the law of ma
tiOnS.
The new law of nations has got to
be tight and it has got to stick, before
the intended crime, not after.
Now about that radar round trip.
That can and perhaps does forecast
manless, controlled planes, flying
high, out of sight, loaded with big
scale death. 1t must never start from
base. 1t must never get off the
ground!
Garndpa's day is gone forever and
we had better understand it - and
think it.
Today there are national policies in
the making. Too many of our political
leaders are thinking like bad boys.
like folish little smarty boys.
Craftsmanship is painfully absent
AWOL, if you please.
Labor should furnish guide to
broad thinking. Here is the chance.
And at the risk of being kicked in the
pants | am going to say that labor
isn't furnishing the intellectual lead
ership that ought to be forthcoming.
Don't say that wage issues take up
all the ability to think and lead. That's
nonsense. Or, if true, it indicates a
weak and unauthentic leadership. All
right, go ahead and kick. But, please
be sure you kick in the right direction.
Gentlemen, it may well be that your
house is on fire-and so you grab the
coal bucket for careful carrying out,
while you pitch the baby through the
window.
Well, it's your baby, but lot of
others will be ruined by the fire.
Please, let us have some brains
and use them.
When they take that doomed fleet
to the final blow-up location it won't
be just another sham battle. 1t will be
test of the power that can destroy
the whole earth, if enough of it gets
loose-and we're not too sure yet Of
just how much it "enough."
And when they start sending Dick
Tracy space ships through the iono-
sphere, with land control in some sec
reted tower, that can be curtains, or
it can be the full Towering of science
in the glory of final discovery.
But too many of us are thinking
about how mad we can get at our
neighbors, how much can be chiselled
here and there, whose goat we can
get and who won the war
Too many of us are thinking in
Gene Talmadge Technology, red gal
luses and all.
For heavens sake, will some power
wake up and make us think broadly,
in terms of the new world of atomic
energy and radar miracles
Wake US out Of our ancient ways.
Wake us out of our smugness and
complacency. And, wake US out of our
narrowness and our selfishness and
our self-centered outlook. This, ladies
and gentlemen, is no time for that
obsession called egomania !-CMW.