The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-28
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| in a Pacific airplane crash brings
home the fact that there are men
who literally are not expendable.
Robert Watt was man who was
not expendable, but he is gone.
The reason these men are not
expendable, in the ordinary sense
is that they have in their heads
that which can be put into mems
heads only by long living with big
and important problems.
| The knowledge that Robert Watt
carried in his head was put there
through years of living with the
lilo and the men who shaped its
course. He know, through long ex-
perience, what made the wheels go
around and which men didn't pitch
them straight over the plate.
1t was so with Mr.. Acheson,
whose loss as diplomat, is trem-
endous.
Acheson had in his head facts
and opinions and understandings
about the Orient that could be put
there only by years of living and
of experience.
OF course, it is said that there is
no. such thing as an Indispensable
man.
But there are men who can be
dispensed with only at great cost,
or great loss.
The nation has just lost two
such men.
Today the international situa-
tion is so tense, so filled with the
probability of critical days, if not
cataclysmic days, that there is un-
usual value to the nation in every
man who is equipped, by exper-
fence and training to help our ma
ton in meeting the perplexing
problems of the hour.
The nation ought to be extreme
ly careful of the lives of its skilled
men in the field of diplomacy and
negotiation.
Here is a field for which there
is no school save the school of ex-
perience and the longer the exper-
fence the more valuable the man,
granted that they are sincere and
have learned their trade well.
Two such men were Robert Watt
and George Acheson.
Of course there are many in our
diplomatic service who would be
better out of it-and the nation
would be better if they were out.
There are the stupid ones who
place more value on the old ways
of high protocol than on serving
their nation. To many Of them
clothes and social position are
more important than brains and
savvy.
But no great nation can have so
many men in it's service without |
having among them, goodly
number of valuable men, sincere
men, understanding men.
To those the government should
cling and of them it should be (,
careful.
In the great field of world af-
fairs there is no substitute for ex-
perience.
Nobody can quite know the Or
lent without having spent years in
getting to know it.
Nobody can quite know interna-
tional labor affairs without having
spent years in getting to know it.
That means to know the men
who make decisions, getting to
know how they think and to whom
they are responsive-what makes
them tick.
There are in the heads of Dwight
and Douglas MacArt-
nur depths. of knowledge and of
Judgment that need to be conserv-
I'd for the nation and the nation
should not lose their SER
,ices. The same is true of Senator
Vandenburg and many others.
In our proven and selfiess lead
RS there is untold national value
value that cannot be replaced
Until other men have lived through
'ears, gathering wisdom, know
edge and experience as they live.
Men are not born wise, nor are
hey born with heads filled with
of facts and of men.
Wisdom comes with living and
With having experience. So does
Schools can lay foundation,
ut upon that foundation each man
must build for himself.
When men have built in the pub I
ic service there is created a public ]
alue. s
Let our nation be careful and ,
ealOus of it's skilled men and it's !
.reat men.
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