The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-07

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continue that increase no that next
year, 1s43, we shall build 10000
900 tons.
These figures and similar figures
for a multitude of other imple-
ments Of war will give the jap
anese and Nazis a little idea of
just what they accomplished in
the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Our task 10 harbour task is
unprecedented the time is
short. We must strain every exist
ing armament-producing facility
to the utmost. We must convert
every available plant and tool to
war production. That goes all the
way from the greatest plants to
the smallest-from the huge auto
mobile industry to the village ma
chine shop.
Production for war In based
on men and women-the hu-
man hands and brains which
collectively we call labor. Our
workers stand ready to work
long hours; to turn out more
In . days work; to keep the
wheels turning and the fires
burning "a hours q day, and
seven days q week. They real
ixe well that on the speed
and efficiency of their work
depend the lives Of their sons
and their brothers on the
fighting fronts.
Production for war is based on
metals and raw materials-steel,
copper, rubber, aluminium. zinc,
tin. Greater and greater quantities
of them will have to be diverted
to war purposes, Civilian use of
them will have TO be cut further
and still further-and, in many
cases. completely eliminated.
ONLY BEGUN TO PAY
War costs money, 30 far, we
have hardly even begun to pay for
IL. We have devoted only is per
cent of our national income to ma
tional defense. As will appear in
my budget message tomorrow. our
war program for the coming fiscal
year will cost 56 billion dollars or,
In other words, more than one
half of the estimated annual ma
tional income. This means taxes
and bonds and bonds and taxes. II
means cutting luxuries and other
non-essentisls. In a word, 1t means
an "sll-out" war by individual ef-
fort and family effort in a united
country.
Only this all-out scale OF
production will hasten the ulti-
mate about victory. speed
will count. Lost ground can
always be regsined-lost time
never. Speed will save lives;
speed will save this nation
which IL In peril; speed win
save our freedom and civilizs-
tion-and slowness has never
been an American character
istic.
As the United States goes into
its full stride, we must always be
on guard against misconceptions
which will arise naturally or which
will be planted among us by our
enemies.
ENEMY is POWERFUL
We must guard against COM
placency. We must not under
rate the enemy He is powerful
and cunning-and cruel and ruth.
less. He will stop at nothing
which gives him a chance to Kill
and to destroy. He has trained
his people to believe that theil
highest perfection is achieved b,
waging war. For many years h
has prepared for this very con
fliet-planning. plotting. training
srming. fighting. We have alresd,
4 tasted defeat. We may suffel
further setbacks. We must fac
the fact of a hard war, 8 loni
war. a bloody war. q costly war
We must. on the other hand.
guard against defeatism- That
has been one of the chief
weapons Of Hitler's props-
ganda machine-used time and
again with deadly results. II
viii not be used successfully
On the American people.
We must guard against div
sions anons ourselves and anon,