Show AUTHENTIC A nta C STATEMENT ocial to TUB TRU nor W baboom ASKS YOU A QUESTION DADSON BABSON you know the name igind address of the director of civil defense for your state it if not write artto your state gov ccoy bernoi today after getting the name write him in to solid fiend you his 1 I 1 what to do to prepare for on ail en dropping a bomb near you live 2 how to protect against the fallout also write your nearest weather bureau washington and nw news releases every department in wash apton ton is showering newspaper editors with releases about russia to make people var tr minded dut but YOU ou will find very little instruction as to what to do in case russia should decide tonight to strike us presumably the reason is ia that preparation for war temporarily pora rily boosts business and employment while the only sales the civil defense people can help are those of the manufacturers of shovels and a few needed dugout and hospital supplies 1 I am a fairly intelli grit man but I 1 did not know until yesterday that when the radar at our national border signals an alert all radio broad casting stations except two must shut down this alert means that russian planes are coming and can reach you in 15 minutes the two operating stations are and 1240 kilo cycles on your radio dial mark these two numbers on the wall near your radio all newspapers should carry them on their radio page until every milli woman and th ch id know them by heart evacuation vs shelters shelter I 1 don t place much confidence in evacuation plans the theory is that on sharp short blows of whistles horns etc lasting 3 minutes the city should evacuated those in automobiles may be able to do it but I 1 am too dumb to imagine a city of or upwards being able to do so de besides where would the people go how could the near su eu barbs house or fed them what is the federal or state civil defense organization doing to provide sufficient shelter if I 1 should be caught without an automobile in any city when the alert was sounded hounded I 1 would not try to get out I 1 would go to the nearest building or home and ask to go to tile the basement evril evi basement bd should be a limited shelter but I 1 under stand that one bomb proof and fallout proof it should be built into the cellar or yard with concrete blocks and covered with 3 feet of dirt shelters against fallout 0 should 0 id be kept stocked with drinking water canned food old clothing toilet convent ances and it a battery radio for particulars write to the federal civil defense at washington wahington D C for their free booklet on home shel for family protection in an atomic attack TM 5 lit lct me add tile the sad fact that less than one percent of am orlean homes have wont sent for booklet bomb ailts lilts Vs kallous tho force of an atomic bomb Is many thousand times that hat of the largest TNT bomb ever made it not only has a terrific powerful explosion but it creates a heat of degrees F it cr crushes ashes it burns nud and often in injures J ures for lite life M most 05 t sensible people would I 1 lather ather be killed outright by such a bomb than left alive but injured the bomb however directly 1 affects only a small area of say five miles with the fallout the situation la Is very different tilts this Is the dispersal of the hie mushroom cloud made by tile the explosion of the bomb this may travel 20 to 50 miles according to tile the winds and weather the civil defense lias has not yet succeeded in waking us up to the need for es caping from this deadly dan cerous fallout in tile the air be fore closing this column let me publicly render thanks to mrs doll bell land director civil defense crystal river west fla who awakened me to tile the situation money on backyard shelters should be tax deductible congress is wise in spend ing billions for missiles submarines and radar systems but with all this protection one or two russian bombers could sneak through this Is no reason for us to get faint hearted and compromise with communism but it is reason for us to spend much more money on shelters and on educating families to make their own sl shelters elters tle the newspapers should encourage this furthermore money spent on such shelters should be deductible for income tax pur poses this would cost the government nothing and a great mass movement to build shelters would increase em cm all over the nation and not only in those cities where missile automobile and airplane plants are cocat ed let us tench teach our children self survival |