Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-29

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Service.
3. An opportunity for members of
the armed services to get further
education or trade training at the
cost OF their Government.
4. Allowance of credit to all mem
bers Of the armed forces. under
unemployment compensation and
Federal old-age survivors insurance
for their period of service. For
these purposes they should be
treated as if they had continued
their employment in private indus
try.
Will Speak Again Soon
On recommendations
5. Improved and liberalized pro-
visions for disqualification, rehabil-
itation and medical care of disabled
members of the armed forces and
merchant marine.
s. Sufficient pensions for disabled
members of the armed forces.
Your Government is drawing UP
other serious, constructive plans for
certain immediate forward moves
They concern food, manpower and
other domestic problems but they
tie in with our armed forces. Within
a few weeks I shall speak with YOU
again in regard to definite actions
to be taken by the Executive Branch
of the Government and specific
recommendations for new legisla
ton bV the CONGRESS-
All our calculations for the future
however. must be based on clear
understanding of the problems in
volved And that can be gained
only by straight tfinking-not guess
work or political manipulation.
I confess that I myself am some
times beWildered by conflicting
statements that l see in the press
One day I read an authoritative
statement that We shall win the
war this year, 1943-and the next
day comes another statement eau-
ally authoritative. that the war
will still be going on in l949.
OF course both extremes-of
optimism and pessimism-are wrong
The length of the war will de-
pend UPON the uninterrupted con
tinuance of about effort on the
fighting fronts and here at home
The effect is all one.
The American soldier does not
like the necessity of Waging war
And yet if he lays off for one
single instant he may lose his own
life and sacrifice the lives of his
comrades.
Worker Slackenins on Job
May Sacrifice Lives
BY the same token-a worker here
at home may not like the driving.
wartime conditions under which he
has to work or live. And yet-if he
gets complacent or Indifferent and
Stacks on his Job he, too, may
sacrifice the lives of American
soldiers and contribute to the loss
OF an important battle.
The next time any one says to
you that this war is lin the bag
and its all over but the shouting. -
you should ask him these questions:
Are you working full time on
your job?"
Are you growing all the food you
camp
Are YOU buying your limit of War
bonds?'
Are YOU Loyalty, cheerfullv CO.
opera ting with your Government IN
preventing imitation ana profteering
and in making ratloning work with
fairness to alp
"BecauSe-if your answer is no
then the war is going to last a lot
longer than you think"
The plans We made for the knock
ing out of Mussolini and his gang
have largely succeeded. But we still
nave to knock out Hitler and his
gang and TOTO and his gang. No
one of us pretends that this will be
an easy matter
We still have to defeat Hitler and
Toj9 on their own home grounds
But this will require a far create,
concentration of our national
energy and our ingenuity and on,
skill.
1t is not too much to say that VIC
must pour into this war tho entire
strength and intelligence and viii
power of the United States. We are
great nation-a rich nation-but
we are not so great or so riC;? tha.
we can afford to waste our substance
or the lives of our men by relaxing
along the way.
We shall not settle for less thar
total victory. That is the deter.
mination of every American on the
fighting fronts. That must be. anc
will be. the determination of every
n, a1.ioot hara nt