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Show Men, Material and Morale are Essential "Men, Materia and Morale" are the three essentials for the perfection per-fection of defense, "Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, deputy director direc-tor of Selective Service, told the menbers of the American Legion Auxiliary at a state-wide meeting in New Haven, Conn. America has the manpower for enormous military forces and abundant resources for equipment, food and clothing, General . Hershey Her-shey declared, but these are only the material components which need a spiritual force to bind them into a whole. Morale, he asserted, therefore is the urgent need at this time and he described that as the willingness of the individual individ-ual to make sacrifices for the common good, he said: "Good hard common sense dictates dic-tates that the ultimate advanttge for us as individuals depends upon up-on the survival of an America which will be better than the America we have known. Our efforts ef-forts must be to prevent this . America from modifications sufficiently suf-ficiently fundamental to change 5 tion. We are accustomed to largo tasks, there arc other elo-.enU of the picture. There ere bitu cf background and shading which arc ot encouraging." Our peacetime stocks of equipment equip-ment are very low. Our normal manufacture of guns, tanks and munitions has been small. The facilities for the production of these materials are, as yet, limited. limi-ted. Our present task lies not in the speeding up of manufacture. It requires the building of factories factor-ies and machines. We must adapt production facilities for uses other oth-er than those for which they have been made. We must create ad-, ditional facilities." General Hehshey said: It is time, yes, past time, for the industrialists, in-dustrialists, the labor leaders, the farmers, and the average citizens citiz-ens to accept and to live the words that Nelson's signal flags gave to the English fleet that day before Trafalgar words that we may modify to read 'America expects ex-pects every man to do his duty.'" a materially our mode of life and thought. If we are to survive as a democracy we must, by unity and cooperation, develop the efficiency ef-ficiency that other types of gov-erment gov-erment gain by authority. Unity and cooperation are possible only when the individual, for his long range interests, concedes something some-thing for the common good -in the immediate present." The manpower of the nation is rallying for its defense, General O Hershey pointed out highly praising prais-ing the patriotic response' of the members of the National Guard, the Reserves and the registrants for Selective Service training. "Yes." he said, "we have a system to procure men for the armed forces. It has produced j thousands. It will accelerate to produce hundreds of thousands. We do not have today forces ad-quate ad-quate in size, in training or equipment, equip-ment, but they are coming the concerted efforts of us all will procure sufficient men time will train them." j On the question of equipment! the problems mount, General Hershey Her-shey asserted. and he stres-sed that in this field the cooperation of every citizen becomes a vital necessity. He said. "Material resources are ours. A magnificent industrial system is ours to command. We understand under-stand mass methods of produc- |