678 State Papers and Addresses

in which you can assist. You should make every effort to conserve anything,
everything, that might be needed in war materials; to sacrifice more and more
in clothes and food and pleasure; and to grasp every chance to help on the
farm and in the factory.

If you were ever tempted to believe that opportunity is dead, and that
there are no more uncharted fields for Youth to discover, you might give thought
just for a moment to the field of transportation, where the airplane has revo-
lutionized man's every concept of distance, and where undoubtedly future de-
velopments will be just as startling. Or I will refer you to the field of chem-
istry, where discoveries in the last two decades have merely begun to indicate
the vast field that lies untouched awaiting serious-minded men and women, and
offering unlimited rewards for such research efforts. In the field of electricity
a similiar condition prevails, as well as in many other phases of the practical
sciences.

There is no place in this land for a laggard. Everyone has a stake in this
war. Victory will come the sooner if every man, woman, and child will work
together in one, common, mighty effort.

The struggle for existence in which our Nation is engaged demands the
active participation of everyone. This is all-out warefare. Unlike the conflicts
of the past, when armies went off to engage in battle at distant points, with the
rest of the populace taking no part, this war affects every man, woman and
child. The theatre of action is world-wide. Today the battle front is in the
Pacific. Tomorrow, or in the near future, it may be right here on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland.

Such a challenge compels us to be ready along three lines: First, our
military forces; second, our industrial resources; and, third, our civilian pop-
ulation. I emphasize that establishing an industrial mobilization is all-impor-
tant. And this brings me to the point of serving notice that all our people must
work, if they cannot fight. No idleness of able-bodied persons can be allowed
at a time when our boys at the front are desperately in need of supplies and
ammunition to overcome the enemy.

Loafers and idlers will be made to understand that they must help in pro-
duction. If they are unwilling to do it as free men, they can be reminded that
a law is on our statute books under which they can be jailed if they absolutely
refuse to work. Then, in our penal institutions, they can make their contri-
bution to the war effort, because it is now arranged that war production be
assisted by our prison population.

Throughout the long life of America, advancement has been made because
the foundation stones of freedom were laid to mark the course of progress.
A more complete enjoyment of life was brought to the people of America and
our Country has been the envy of all the people of the world. That is why
we are despised by the dictators because our way of life is contrary to all
their ambitions.

In a world where brute force and treachery have become the chief weapons
of war-mad dictators, ours is the task of preserving and strengthening the rights