632 Stat/s Papers and Addresses

tion of which may well depend the final contribution that will be possible for
the people to make. This important problem is that of transportation. And
this important question may well demand, the cooperation. of the entire Balti-
more County and Baltimore City populations for its solution.

Anyone who has ever been near the Glenn Martin Plant, and. has seen the
thousands of automobiles parked there, as well as the additional thousands
enroute to and from the plant, will have some sort of a picture as to the problem
of transportation to be faced when—and not if— the present supply of tires
gives out.

It was in recognition of this problem, and of the necessity for its solution,
that I called upon Federal, State, industrial and transportation executives
several weeks ago to confer with me in a reasoned search for the answer to the
transportation of these workers. The inquiry, nnw being pursued by a specially
selected group of patriotic men, has developed facts that indicate that the solu-
tion when finally achieved must be a combination of many component parts.

Staggering of working hours will not be the complete answer. Improved
train or bus service, no matter how greately expanded, will not be the complete
answer. Adjusted school hours, permitting utilization of school "buses, will not
be the complete answer. But probably all of these combined, together with
other such adjustments in our every-day life, may have to be called into play
if we are to continue to get these thousands of workers1 to the vital plants, and
enable them to continue turning out the war materials without which we can-
not hope for final victory.

In this matter of transportation, and in all the other war measures, particu-
larly along rationing lines, that may be deemed necessary, the complete co-
operation of all of our people is going to be absolutely essential. Unless there
is evidence that complete, wholehearted, generous will-to-serve, we shall achieve
the full measure of effectiveness that is demanded in the battles of production
and Civilian Defense on our home front.

One of the greatest combatant forces, that knows no equal is—Morale.
Military authorities have attributed the downfall of France in no small meas-
ure to the uncertainty of the French fighting forces as to the safety of their
loved ones at home. It has all happened so recently, yet I am afraid that we
have already forgotten it,

Our boys, yes, possibly your sons, are being sent to foreign shores to carry
the battle to the enemy's home grounds. Do you want these boys, some of
whom undoubtedly will sacrifice their lives, to carry with them the demoraliz-
ing thought that we at home are at the mercy of the enemy's aerial invasion?

They cannot fight their battles and ours too. We must be prepared to take
cart of any and every emergency, and to display to our fighting men that we
are as ready to defend our homes as they are prepared to go forward into battle
to defend and uphold the four freedoms.

Yes, we have 125, 000 volunteers in the protective services in the Maryland
Civilian Defense Organization. Of this fact I am happy. These volunteers are
rapidly being trained and assigned today. But we need the active support of
men of your calibre. The fact that we must all realize, is that in this "all-out"