The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-11
Eloquent Armistite Day Address Made Today by
 Governor Ernest Grueninq

Armistice Day celebrations are be
 ing held, has offered as the them of the day Defend America"
 All Must Act
 That defense might seem to be for many among us, problem largely in the hands of others, II the hands of our elected and ap pointed leaders in Territory. Stat and Nation; in the hands, first 0 all. of our great leader, the Presi dent of the United States, Com mander In Chief of the Army anc Navy, of the respective Chiefs O Staff of those two mighty services of the Cabinet, of the members o Congress, and so on down to anc through all those who arc either in the armed services as officers ol men, or in the related civilian ser vices, or in field and factory rais- ing the food-stuffs or making the munitions and implements neceb- sary for our defense and for tlt assistance of other nations already engaged in fighting for the prcScr- vation of liberty on this planet But should any concieve that the rest of us Americans are to be rel iatively passive bystanders. they are wholly mistaken. In the. first Iplace, in this war that has been de- iiberately thrust upon a peace-seek- ing world there are no bystander6 There are only victors and victims in an all-out total war.
 Total war rains death from the skies on civilian population, wipes out whole cities. and. after the tanks and dive bombers have passed slavery is the fate of those among the conquered who survive. There is, therefore, no place, no part to- day for the passive bystander. Each and everyone of us has. and will gladly accept, part commensurate with his strength of head. heart and hand; everyone of us will be called upon to serve, to sacrifice, to share in the common defense and and in the preservation of cur price less heritage.
 Civilian Defense
 Here in Alaska, as elsewhere Throughout the nation, and speci- fically here in Juneau, civilian de- fense has been organized Before it is finished it will enlist the active cooperation of every, man, woman and child not otherwise en- gagged in essential defense. service. Here in Juneau, as in many places elsewhere throughout Alaska and throughout the nation, the leader ship of civilian defense has been assigned to a capable and trusted Legionnaire, a veteran of the first World War. It is altogether fitting and desirable that it be so.
 Those who fought through the last war and lived through it. know fully the horrors of war But they also know that there can be a peace worse than death, and that. along with the cruelties and the trutalities of war, defense of the nation also brings out in men the nobler, the finer qualities, of height t,-in icY,, Nf In votion, of unwavering loyalty, of elf-sacrifice, and the steeling of mind and body to the service of great ideal.
 Among us, my friends, that ideal of equality among men, of freedom, of government by consent of the governed, of majority rule, but of protection of minorities, of even- handed and impartial administra- ion of justice. This is what those who fought and lived through the last World War know, and that is why their service was the first to be offered to our country in this new crisis, and that is why their service was promptly accepted and is being effectively utilized.
 Defense Is Watchw0rd
 Defense, in whatever form it may take, is the watchword of the hour. say fin whatever form" because tt must be clear to thinking Amer icans. that though the purpose and the principles for which we are prepared to lay down our lives. if need be, are the same that inspired the fathers of the republic, that guided Lincoln in the preservation of the Union, that actuated our doughboys when they went forth to fight the modern Huns, yet the methods by which those principles are to be fought for may change owing to the progress of invention. Less than a month ago President Roosevelt in public message stated categorically, the destruction of. the Hitler menace is the real end, the unacceptable end, of our Foreign Policy" Wherever the achievement of that end may take us we shall go. And in dealing with this im- placable and constituencies enemy, we shall have to face the stark fact that force only is the method and means by which he and his