The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-05

mic lunch at the top of Pike's Peak, have the radio turned on, or if you have no radio, make surc that you run, not walk, to the nearest band stand.
 At cue from tbe U. s. Marine Band in Washington everybody will burst forth all over this broad land in an "Oh, Say Can You Seel" that should make the eagles scream. The President of the United States will then address you briefly and every- body will recite in unison the Pledge of Allegiance.
 The idea of all this was brought up by the American Legion, V. F. w., D. A. R., Elks, Boy Scouts and others, but is being made 8 national institution by New York's Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, who is also administrator of the Off1ce of Civil ian Defense, which will carry on from there. On July 21 will come the national collection of aluminium pots and pans you don't happen to be using, and from then on you want to be as ready as a fireman on . greased pole.
 In connection with this aluminium drive, one thing the OCD would like to make clear is that you shouldn't give up the aunninum you're actual ly using. All the government wants is the old battered stuff under the sink or on the back shelf Further more, don't give it up before July 21. WATCH FOR
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 In Kansas City a collection was made ahead of time and 1t back fired. A junk man came along, said he was authorized to buy the stuff for 3 1-2 cents 8 pound, bought it, hauled it of and disappeared him. self. The fixed price then being II 1-2 cents, the junkman made him. self 8 nice profit and the defense of the country got black eye. So hang onto your aluminium until the big government collection.
 Based on the experiences of trial collections at Richmond, Va, and Madison, Wis, the OCD hopes to collect some 20 million pounds. It won't go directly into airplanes, you understand, which require special alloys. but it will go to other defense uses.
 These two trial mobiliZations of the civil population are only 8 patchin' to what you can expect later. La Guardia's organization is just swinging into action. It has asked for only $500 000 for Its opera tions in the next year, and its per- sonnel will number only 8 little over 250. That's just vitamins for a guppy, the way Washington figures the long green in these days, but for this amount of money, more people will be prodded into doing things than for any sum you might men, tion. The secret is that your help will be solicted on volunteer basis. FROM TOP
 TO BOTTOM
 Organization will trickle down to you through simple pattern. La Guardia will have a branch in each of the nine Army corps areas, with headquarters in Boston, New York, Baltimore, San Antonio, San Fran cisco, Omaha, Columbus, Atlanta and Chicago. The Army will detail an officer for civilian defense in each corps. Within each corps area the governors of the states will be top men, and within each state the mayors of the towns. Possibly county agents will supervise organization of local defense councils.
 Within each local defense council comes the work of the individual citizenry. Even the population has to be trained to go places when the bombs start falling and to stay there until the danger is past. Keeping rubbernecks from watching the pret- ty planes has been one of England's toughest problems.
 So far, there have been 1,500 local defense councils organized. A good many of them are still on paper but they will be made real by the alum mum collection, and the county agents in 5000 rural counties will also be swung into line by use of Department of Agriculture mailing lists.
 A few test mobilizatiOns have been made like the one in Washington where volunteers were asked to sign up for what they'd like to do, from spotting planes to putting out fires. There is 95 per cent chance that none of these things will have to be done, but you can't afford to run that per cent risk. So, if you've had any suppressed desires to be 8 fireman, policeman, ambulance driver, anti-gas man, or population evacuator, you may get chance to do your stuff.