The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-23

A0iJ GO ings is really something to be amazed at. Just check off the list as 1t hits your community and as 1t hits you:
 If you live in a municipal area, at the top of the heap is the local Defense Council. In rural area it may be known as the County War Board.
 Your Defense Council runs the Civilian Mobilization Progra m, where you and the members of your family have registered for all man. ner of odd jobs for which you won't get paid cent-from minding other peoples children to being an auxiliary policeman.
 If you are in an area open to enemy attack, you may be mustered into Citizens Defense Corps as an air raid warden or bomb butter outer. Or, you may be recruited in the Citizens Service Corps, teach- ing people how to eat right, or checking prices charged by local merchants.
 You have submitted to a Draft Board which takes your husband or sons or brothers right out Of your family for duty in the Army.
 Your men folk have, or soon will, fill out forms indicating their spec ial skills. If those skillS can be used to advantage in war production, the men may be politely requested. if not told, to go do this-there-and like it.
 There Is a War Savings Stamp Committe working on you to put 10 per cent of your pay into war bonds.
 TRANSPORTATION TANGLE
 Tn war production areas. there will be transportation committees having very definite say-so over how you go to work, and when. Hours for going to school, to factory, to white collar office jobs will be stag gered to eliminate traffic jams on your transportation system. You are being urged to take your neighbors to work, or ride with them. These transport committees may be reg ulating your comings and goings, more and more as the war moves on.
 Salvage committees urge you to save all manner of things you for- merly threw away. You collect old iron, copper and aluminium. donate all the old rubber you can find, hunt through attic and closet for old rags, save your kitchen greases. turn in old toothpaste tubes. and in some 28 metropolitan areas, clean, fiatten and store your old tin cans.
 You must submit to the regula- tions of all manner of rationing boards. Rationing boards for the purchase of new automobile. Rationing boards for the purchase of new tires or getting permission to have your old ones recapped. Rationing boards for sugar. In some areas. rationing for gasoline. And this is only the beginning. There will be rationing of some Is other items.
 Tn war production areas, where housing situations are critical. here are rent control boards which limit the amount local landlords can charge you for rent.
 In farm areas, committees may solicit your services to help take off the corps when harvest time comes around.
 
 Unofficially, the Red Cross com mittees and the USO committees may be soliciting you for everything from a pint of blood to few hours dancing with or dishing out dough- nuts to doughboys
 Now all this plethora of com mittees, competing for your help, Is bound to create some confusion when superimposed on your normal local governmental machinery.
 The Office uf Civilian Defense is beginning to realize that this confusion exists and may get more chaotic. OCD is making a survey all government agencies have to make surveys before they get any thing done-and it hopes to "co- ordinate all these programs"-to repeat the most banal cliche in official government lingo. Anyway. the idea is to decide which com- mittee's work is most urgent, and to get 1t done first.
 But why do you submit to all | thie2 The ansWeF citizen is that you do these things because this is free country and no one can shove you around. Not unless they have your permission. anyway. In this case, you submit to this extra local government in small things go that nobody named Adolf can shove you around at some later date on matters of danger import. This is your sacrifice to help win the war.