Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-12
It's News
To Me
By O. J. Pecord

Just time that lot of get to thinking that the
world begins in back yard in city, our
state nation nsuferabe jerk has to come along
rudely awaken
This time it was member Congress- who, in discuss
ing the legislation give Europe frankly expressed the
opinion lowering the of war. There's
a guy for you
OF course, there of people who have serious
doubts about the closeness ILL., although
doing great job of desteppng BY the token,
there of really people who worried about
the closenes international unpeasanness (war to you
This intended not proponent or believer in
either schools of thought but rather it started
out to say somebody is always pulling short just
get comfortably settled down into pleasant rut
who intensely interested in the labor movement,
appeared that labor branch of so-caled
civilized society which should be deeply concerned with
everything its welfare for either good evil
consistently opposed and for good
all the labor movement inter-
what makes the world tick and sometimes forgets that
effects the people of Czechosavka have repercus
sons right here
BROAD VIEW
me- it's lot easier to swim with the tide than
against it. The comfortable the natural thing to do
is to become interested in your own local sectional acVl
ties that neglect to note what else
where that might possibly effect you.
the broad view, particularly when
become absorbed in own immediate problems and
interests that nothing else be of comparable mpor
tance.
Perhaps this was what happened in Germany when lot
of good labor leaders suddenly awakened the fact that
they had Hitler sitting aStrde their neckS that their de-
mocacy and free unions There doubt
it that the German labor leaders considerable
extent the was they apparently could
with the mpasoned bid of Hitler for the confidence
of the German people.
Like the Czechs still have too much the spirit
of 1T can't happen here yet happened Czechoslovaka
happened in other counr bordering Soviet Despite
still thinking that is thousands of miles
forge of the fact that the European continent about
far the Baltimore congressman who drove his buggy
to Washington in the good old days of horse and buggy
NOT DESTROYED
During the when the distant Pacific islands
brought by swift moving naval
that Tnpop
Australia England France Germany the other
tries of the world not isolated nations next door
neighbors.
We were made aware the rapidly shrinking world when
President Roosevelt in of his chats
how close time
to Washington Chicago Detroit and other American cities
vital to the effort. The President conducted class in
geography because he geography
of this great big world of
If Nero fiddled while Rome fire not big
screwbal those Americans who think they
live in the they and that
superSonc jet propulsion. These lot of
the folks but their ignorance of the implications of the atom
and jet will not stave off ultimate disaster any than
stupid ostrich capture expedient of
cause it can't see its pursuer its purSuer it.
So that's grpe for this week. not the people who
fuse to awaken to realities but the always
ing around shocking day dreams planning
to take delight in kicking in good
clean fun when we are bent gazing beautiful and
fragrant rose?
There ought to be law prohibiting these realistic people
from giving these alarms and shocking into wakeful
that living in the dangerous threat
ening period in the worlds history
Yes sr There ought to be a law!