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National economy, and will so alter the routine of every single resident of our
Country, that life in America will eventually present a picture that no one liv-
ing ever expected to see.

Millions of our people who have felt, and may still feel, that they can't pos-
sibly survive without automobiles, will come to learn that they not only can
survive without them, but that they will manage to get along very well without
many other things that we have come to consider almost equally essential.

We are a great Nation of coffee drinkers. Already we have seen those
supplies threatened. Likewise, with regard to tea, which, with China and the
whole Far East embroiled, will become increasingly scarce. Our clothing
habits will have to be changed because there simply won't be wool enough to go
around. Citizens may have been comforted by the announcement from Wash-
ington that fuel oil, although rationed, will be available for heating homes.
However, the announcement attributed to a high official in Canada to the effect
that Canada1 cannot count on enough oil to heat homes this winter, indicates
the possibility in that direction for America. And so it goes.

On the human side we see prospects of tremendously increased demands
on our manpower for service in the armed forces and in industry. Even now
there is an acute demand for 12, 000 additional women workers in the Baltimore
industrial area alone. Throughout the Country it is estimated that 1, 000, 000
more women will have to go into industry during 1942. Undoubtedly, many
thousands of women who never expected to see the day when they would be
called upon to forego their bridge and the accepted conveniences of life in the
American household, will now find themselves called upon for work* of various
sorts in connection with defense activities, and for even the heavier types of
effort in machine shops, armament factories, etc.

The power of our enemies is so vast, it has been concentrated for so long
on the single purpose of military preparedness, that it offers our Country a
challenge that no half-way measures could ever hope to be met. Not only must
everyone of us be ready and willing to do everything that is expected of us, but
the available manpower and womanpower must be so distributed that it achieves
its maximum effect. By this is meant that men and women must go into the
lines in which their training and natural ability make them most effective, so
that, given a certain number of working hours the production accomplished may
reach the greatest possible total.

The emergency that confronts us today recalls to mind the patriotic ex-
pressions of other days, when Americans, hard-pressed as are our people today,
rose to heights of spiritual exaltation and expressed themselves in words that
will go ringing down the ages.

In the days of 1776 Thomas Payne gave voice to a declaration that applies
today just as truly as it did in that time of crisis. "These are the times that try
men's souls, " he said. "The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in
this crisis, shrink from the service of their Country; but he that stands for it
now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like Hell, is
not easily conquered. Yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder