The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-23
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-W..A-TREE
Four great wartime air bases
have been ordered put back into
full operation-re-activated is the
word.
So, a lot of persons think we're
still playing a game and ALPS well
with the world.
We pick and hunt with petty in
ternal irritations, squabbling like
over-grown children, while the pos
sibilities of cataclysm loom around
the corner.
Our first peace time draft has
begun and most families with an
eligible Joe hope he won't be call
ed.
1t is not easy to imagine the pos
sibilities of what may hang over
our heads.
Perhaps small blame should at
tach to the masses, while the joint
chiefs of staff have such hard
time getting together. Perhaps un
derstandably, but nevertheless in
defensibly, they squabble over how
much prestige each should get and
over whose ideas should dominate
planning.
We have, quite vocally, the
groups which say, "Russia doesn't
want war" and ''the United States
doesn't want war"
Surely the United States doesn't
want war. But in the sense in which
we apply these words to our own
nation, we cannot apply them at all
to Russia, for Russia has no effec-
tive public opinion. What the Polit-
buro wants will be what happens.
There will be no "we-don't-want-
war" parades in Russia.
But even if the Politburo doesn't
want war, war can happen. The
Berlin situation can produce an "in-
cident" beyond recall at any time.
So can Korea and a dozen other
places.
Finally, what the United States
wants will cut no ice, for the decis-
ion is entirely in Russian commun
ist hands. ENTIRELY.
1t is high time for the develop
ment of the highest possible degree
of unity within the United States.
Labor can, if it will, play trem-
endous part in the approach to
unity. 1T SURELY CAN.
The great tragedy of the out
look as we face it, is in the fact
that mighty little of civilization
may remain after the conflict. That
is too much for the imagination, so
let each of us just assume that our
own little back yard may be made
of habitation and that
we lack the power to go elsewhere,
if we survive at all.
Most of US think of total destruc-
ton only in terms of the atom
bomb. So, since only we have that
bomb, our soil would be spared.
But we must remember that |
there is d new meteorological war
fare ready and waiting and that
we do not have a monopoly in that
realm. 1t can be as devastating as
the atom bomb, though not quite so
sudden But the horrors of that are
we cannot wholly visu-
alize, because there has been no
demonstration. But that kind of
warfare means poisoning on an
scale.
Well, that's what looms in this
world, while we elect
Talmadges and Longs to public Of
fee.
The world is split in only two
great power areas-Russia and her
satellites on one side; the United
States and the other free nations
,n the other. The United States is
he leader Of it's group, by virtue
IF strength. 1t cannot be other
wise.
So, isn't it time we began to
.hink in terms of unity? Isn't it?
If we avoid war it will be be-
,ause the soviets believe US too
strong. Strength is a matter of hu-
nan unity, as well as of arms.
Let us therefore be strong in the
United spirit of our people. Let us
10 those things that make for
nifty. Let us shun those things that
make for disunity.
Let us do this as free people,
% all of whom our freedom teaches
he same lesson.
Every house should be at all
hours in good order, against the
reeds of a supreme struggle for
existence.
Less than that is an open invita-
ion to disaster.