654 State Papers and Addresses

KIWANIS CLUB—PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNT. Y

GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB
Radio Stations WMAL, Washington, and WCBM, Baltimore

April 16, 1942
Prince George's County

RECENT developments in the world conflict have more than confirmed the
warnings which have been given that our people must realize the dangers
which confront us. If we are to survive the attacks of our Axis foes, and,
equally important, to avoid the crippling effects of a long struggle that would
be costly in both manpower and material, we must organize to get several
vitally important things done as quickly and as effectively as is humanly
possible.

To this end, we must determine absolutely that whatever gets in the way of
this action program, must be thrown aside, forgotten, until the war is won. We
must make it plain to all that individuals or groups who may try to seize upon
this emergency as opportunity for accomplishing their own selfish ends, in
preference to the successful conduct of the war, will be regarded by our people
as saboteurs, as enemies of the common good.

What, then, are these vital objectives to which, as a Nation, we must ad-
dress ourselves completely and without reserve if America is to win through to
victory and to save humanity from the slavery of Axis despotism? First, our
people must realize that the type of war in which we are now engaged is one
that requires new methods. Even the most ardent advocates of isolation, even
the strongest believers in America's supposed invincibility, those who were will-
ing to stake everything on. the magic of a two-ocean Navy, now admit this fact.
We cannot sit calmly behind a supposedly impregnable defense, as France tried
to do. Rather we must carry the war on a tremendous scale into the camps of
our enemies.

It is generally accepted by now that this can be done only by sending to
the Pacific warfront planes and men, in undreamed-of numbers, backed by fight-
ing materials in quantities that really stagger the imagination.

That's War Job No. 1. As our next National objective, on the home front
here in America, we have a tremendous defensive job to be organized. Every
state in this Country, but particularly those adjacent to the West or East Coast,
(such as Maryland), must enroll every last one of its citizenry in one or another
of the Civilian Defense forces, whose function it will be to maintain our Na-
tional effort and morale in the face of any hostile attack that our enemies may
start to launch against us.

Here in Prince George's County, at the door of the Nation's Capital, and
in the other sections of our State, the Civilian Defense organization has pro-