Evening star., 1946-05-15
Letters to The Star
Squawks for a Lot of People
On a Lot of Subjects

To the Editor Of The Star
In Jim Berrymans cartoon in The
Star of May 7, John @. Public asks what
he can be expected to do about it-re-
ferring to the coal strike.
Well, maybe John can sit back and
grumble to himself but Mrs. John is
going to yell out loud and hope that
enough people hear her to start some
thing doing. 1t Is high time for the
people to rise up on their hind legs and
straighten things out. There is not only
the coal strike. There are labor unions
in general, the crippling of the Draft
Extension Act, dissolving of OPA, the
housing situation, foreign loans and the
rehabilitation of foreign countries, to
mention few of the biggest items.
And why, may I ask, do we have to
take the dictums of few men filled
with power and desire for votes? Can
it be that enough people are blinded to
the future posterity of our country that
they will vote for men who can see no
further than their own noses?
Here we go again! We turn deaf
ear to the wise counsel of Gen. Eisen-
hover by disarming and demobilizing
at an alarming rate, thus weakening our
control in the recently conquered enemy
countries, to which we also are being
much too charitable. We are inviting
imitation by practically dissolving the
OPA and by removing price ceilings.
We are on the brink Of destroying all we
fought and suffered for by letting labor
unions run the country and a Nation
wide coal strike paralyze all industry.
We sit back and let Great Britain goad
us into trouble with other of the United
Nations and insult us for not making
another loan to her-and where would
she be now If 1t were not for these
back in history, one will find that Great
Britain always has walked off with the
lions share, and she still is exercising
that privilege
Why should we pay for the war and
rehabilitate the whole world? Charity
begins at home. Let's get ourselves
taken care of first. Let us see to it that
all our own people are fed, have jobs
clothes and moderate-priced homes, and
that our own industries are running
smoothly. We can do.this and still help
the oppressed peoples-and said peoples
could do lot more to help themselves
If they would stop their self-pity and
get to work. In fact, we are spelling the
world. II we were not so prompt and
eager to help our less fortunate neigh
bors, they would have to help them
selves little.
Bring the boys home! And the sooner
we bring these boys home the sooner we
will have to send the present children
OF to war. So Germany is conquered
for all time? What country has buckled
down and started cleaning up the
rubble, and fawning on the Allies-and
efficiently setting the stage for the next
war, because we have not cracked down
on her and because we have been frater-
nizing with her? I think 1t would be
we'll If we would an 60 back to our
history books and read those chapters
devoted to conditions resulting from the
mistakes made after the First World
War. and remember that this one is
not yet finished business" There is
more to war than just the fighting.
What good does this bowling do? We,
little people, can take leaf out of the
unions books. After all, there are more
OF us than anybody, and If We will all
get together and give a concerted
squawk, we will be heard and needed.
PATRICIA r. Cooley.