Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-08-23
Whats
New?
By
EdUdrd Duck
Representative
2>B
UAW,CIO

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comforting feeling for the
families of those boys who are
today buried in the sands of
Two Jima, in the jungles of
the South Pacific, or perhaps
lowered to a watery grave in
the middle of the ocean, to
know that everything they
fought, bled and died for has
been won. Yes, it must.
Liberty - Freedom - De-
mocracy All! These are
the words we heard so often
these past few years! Govern
ment with the consent of the
governed, and all that sort of
stuff! 1t was worth the fight,
wasn't it? Everything for the
boys!
Banners, EN- b ms and
plaques hang in every beer
joint in the country, each one
bearing the rubber-stamp
words praise for the conquer
ing heros - "You Have Serv-
ed Your Country Well. How
many times have all of us
found these complimentary
words in shop windows, on
posters and billboards, in fact,
everywhere!
Unfortunately for the vet
erans, a few words of glorifi-
cation and a handshake cam
not add up to a home for his
family and food in the mouths
of his children. Japan's sur
render sent most people in this
country into spasms of ecstasy
a year ago, but day by day
people are forgetting what a
war there was, and worse
still, what that war was fought
for.
THE PACK
Any idiot can throw up his
hat and run down the street
yelling Yankee Doodle" when
he hears roll on a drum or
the blare of a bugle. If
that's patriotism I'm glad
haven't got it. Thank the Lord
there are still a few guys
around who insist on asking
a few questions now and then.
before falling in and running
headlong into nowhere with
the pack.
Governor Ellis Arnall, for
instance, isn't overcome with
awe when a handful of aristo-
cratic dodos from his state of
Georgia begin blabbering
about states" rights and
democracy" He's got more
democracy in his little finger
than those ancient bunnies
have in their entire senile
frames. He has done smore to
help the southern worker-and
the northern, too, for that
than all the falsely
proud and utterly bigoted,
germ-carriers whose congress
sional seniority" entities
them to sit in on important
committees and stymie the
of people who are
really democratic.
Yet the man he supported
as his potential successor in
office could not beat the Ku
kluX Klan's candidate even
though he got more votes than
the guy" who, If he lives that
long, will become the next
Governor of Georgia.
Men we are expected to
hold in esteem, such as Ohio's
Taft and Ramey, who derive
their power from the consent
of the governed" park their
sromets in the Nations Capt.
.ol and proceed to deliberately
defy the will of their con-
'tituents, Democracy in action,
sn't it, when the welfare of
Americans millions is over
ooked in order that special
interests may benefit?
Is THIS 1T?
Returning veterans might
10 well to ask themselves il
his is the great postwar
America they dreamed of
'eturning to - the Land of
Plenty, full of nothing they
ire able to buy at a fair price,
I at all, with King Coin rul-
ng everywhere.
minority groups who never
'ally enjoyed true democracy.
economic or political, are be-
ne prosecuted more now than
'efore the war, and it matters
title whether the victims of
ynchings, hanging bees and
are veterans or not.
The Flag was waved, as
Iags are always waved in time
{ war. Hitler was a demon,
lussolini a blatant loudmouth
nd the Jap a rat whose entire
ace screamed for extermina-
on. So we did it. Lots of good
YES were lost in the process,
My to have the lucky boys
ome home to find that not all
he dictators were in Europe,
OF all the crooks in prison,
nd not all the monkies in
ages.
Sure, the war had to be won.
ut there's a war to be won
ght here at home. Guns