PALMER ALASKA. __ CARL RASMUSSEN, EDITOR._
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SCRAMBLED POST- WAR PLANS.
If a person tried to analyze all of the Post-War plans submitted by
various experts to the public, it would be too.'much work for one person
to do it in time to put it into operation after the War. We have read
plans for a Post-War World written by Ely Culbertson the bridge expert
who has a lovely plan all figured out that might work, but before we
were able to get the last installment of Culbertsorfs plans, we noticed
severl other plans by people who think that Culbertson^ plans are all
wrong. Wendell Wilkie's conclusions in One World sound good and might
work too, but the experts tell us that they are wrong too and so the
battle goes on and on. Vice- President Wallace has plans too, but the
experts think that his are impractical toe* Herbert Hoover tells what
should be done in his book on the subject, but a lot of the others do
not agree with him either. Naturaly this leaves the citizen with only
overage ability in a daza-Re just cant take the time to study all of
pirns ah '! probably wouldntr understand it-if he'did.
Rut in spite of all of this confusion, any thinking person must admit
that to wage a terti ble,expensive war, and when it is over get right
hock in "the s^ime rut and mnivher of. thinking and doing,that promoted the
war in the first place, is "certainlyfoolish thing to do, But we have
lots of people in the World who would *do just that thing,and it usually
has been done,if we hove read our history correctly.
Still when the time of great crisiscomes,'lt usualy finds most of the
unlucky individuals who ore affected, totaly unprepared to act or think
in a clear way, so that holocaust leaves them in a daze and the only
thing that they con think about is getting the necessities of life, if
possible, hot, to prepare plans for the prevention of the extremity
again. Then os times return to normal as- they usualy do, the older
generation are unable to impress the younger generation with the import
ance of planing for the future. Most.‘Nations like most individuals live
each day or year with little thought for the future. Then when the cruel
amfcitous men, who usualy start waraf co on a rampage, the younger gener
ation follow them, because they haveriXt thought about the con pequonc.es,
but when defeat follows and nations lay prostrate before the God of War
then the unlucky individual cries, " Why did this have to happen to me'*
We have many individuals among us who will tell us that War is inevKtVt
i^table r nd that it is useless to try to prepare plena for abolishment
or war. Put we just carft believe this, there has been toomimgnyoWther
things tl at have been overcome of a similar nature, and while the mass
of the people of the ’World lerrn very slowly and changes are so small
Ijfu.t they are hardly notic.nble .in a lifetime. Yet we feel that the human
mind is capable of impi'ovemc.nt rnd one must admit that mind is the
dominant factor* so perhaps in some far distant, time war can be done
cjfcy with and nations can liv.e in peace and security. The writer feels
that the present war may be the last great war for many years, because
War is no longer the sport of Kings,, it is Just plain murder, when the
aged, women and children .are subjected to all of .the horrors of war, as
they are in this great wo,r..