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I KEEP COOL 2 STAY STAIT HOME 3 PUT OUT LIGHTS it Whether not out black is ordered dont don't show more light Above all aU keep cool Dont Don't lose your head r or The Th e safest place pace 1 in m an air mr rm raid d is 15 at 1 home than is If out or cover all planes come over put necessary Do not crowd the streets avoid chaos prevent disorder and If from home under in the you are away get cover nearest blackout The lights at once once once-don't dont don't wait for the out black order light havoc shelter Avoid crowded places Stay off the streets that cant can't be seen will never guide a Jap Remember a candle candlelight You can fool the enemy It is easy If planes come over The enemy wants you to run out into the streets create a n amob light be seen for miles from the air stay where e you are Dont Don't phone unnecessarily The chance mob start a p panic Dont Don't do it may y you u will be hit is small It is part of the risk we must take to If incendiary bombs fall faU play a n spray from a garden hose If you have portieres or curtains arrange a double thickness windows Blankets will do If win wm this over your you war never a splash or stream of water on the bomb Switch to a Until an alarm go about your usual business and recreation in inthe stream to put out any fire started by the bomb Switch back to toa have heavy black paper paste it on your windows Dont Don't the ordinary way a spray for the bomb The bomb will burn for about 15 minutes min min- crowd or stampede stores to get it however You probably h utes if left left alone only about 2 minutes under a fine fie water have everything you need at home Be ingenious ingenious improvise Think twice before do anything Dont Don't believe rumors rumors- you spray pray A jet splash stream or bucket of water wafer will make Should you get an air raid warning remember to shut off false is of the Dont Don't spreading rumors part enemy's technique let him take in it explode gas stoves gas furnaces and gas pilot lights on both Bomb Bomb- you Under raid aid conditions keep a bathtub and buckets full of explosions may blow them out from blast effect Gas that Know ow your mr raid air d warning In general it it is S short h 0 rt bl blasts or wa water t er r for lor th the e use 0 of f th the e fi fire re department d. in In case water mains mams collects may be explosive later rising an and d r Ia falling II mg pi pitch on w whistles h. h tl es or h horns oms The Th e all a all 11 c clear 1 ear i is isa IS s broken are aIe Prepare one room the one with the least window glass in the a 8 a steady tone for 2 minutes Watch this paper for description of the local signal This is subject to change I If you have a so soda and extinguisher the kind you turn strongest part of your house for a refuge room Put food and upside down use it with your finger ov over r the nozzle to make a at drinking water in it Put a sturdy table in it Put mattresses t t- t V Await Aw ut official information before taking any action When spray Dont Don't use the chemical kind mall cylinders of liquid and chairs in it Take a magazine or two and a deck of cards the Air Raid Warden comes to your home do what he tells you on bombs It is all aU right for ordinary fires into it Take things like eyeglasses and dentures with you yeu He is for He is friend protection your your for friend But above all aU keep cool stay home t when you go into it Take toilet facilities paper a screen screen- He will help you do your part to whip the enemy 1 Choose one member of the family to be the home raid air-raid If you have a portable radio take that too Above all keep We can do it We will do it if we stay calm and cool and warden who warden who will remember all the rules and what to do calm Stay at home Put out lights Jig strong and alert Mother makes the best r I 4 L J a i it TL 0 i f o 0 I g f J t DOWN DOWNIf t l Ar HELP 4 LIE D' D ff t 4 t J lV l' J. J If bombs start to fall near you lie down You will feel the Strong capable calm people are needed to man the volunteer volunteer- blast last least that way escape fragments or splinters j WINDOWS I 01 S services services If you ou want to help there are lots of opportunities The safest place is under a good stout table the table the stronger the 1 If Y you ou know first aid and have a certificate e r there ere is s an immediate imme m diate mate job for you If yo you are a veteran vetera or a former volunteer legs the better Glass shatters easily so stay away from windows A mattress under a table combines comfort with WIt safety Dont Don't go to windows and look out in an air raid It is a or regular fireman fir man or policeman there is work for you yO If f you The enemy enemy m may y use se explosive bombs 0 or incendiary bombs or dangerous thing and helps the enemy The Air Raid Warden have no o special skills but are stron strong and husky there 1 is a job for both If incendiaries are used It its it's s more important to deal with is out there watching for you Again we say get off the streets you In in rescue squads road repair units or demolition and them than to be safe from blast So defeat the incendiary with a aspray if planes come over over clearance squads If you have and can drive a car you may be spray never a splash or stream of water then go back to safety At night there is is danger of being caught in blast from needed for drivers' drivers corps Older Boy and Girl Scouts over 15 under a 8 table in In a refuge room can help as messengers Both men and women are needed Most raids will likely y be over in your immediate neighborhood neigh neigh- Antiaircraft fire means falling shrapnel You are safe from Heres Here's how ow to g get started boyhood in Q a short time However stay under cover till the theall it indoors away from windows Its It's more important to shell a If theres there's s a Civilian Defense Volunteer Office in m your cornall com corn all dear clear IB Is sounded plane than it is to see it from a window call there and d ask where e to report If not call your Kno Knout your raid r d alarms alarm Know the u all all cI dear clear Official n news Stay in your refuge room away from windows That is the l local cal Defense Council or Committee or the Chamber of Corn Com of these c e will c come to you from your Air l Raid id Warden Dont Don't t safest t place Go there at the first alarm stay there until the tho theall merce Phone and ask where to report rather than going in believe rumor Watch this thit pp air raid alarm description all clear dear person Ask Juk the harden wh when he some comes Above all keep calm Stay home Put out lights Lie Lle There are people needed for for for- r Should your hou e be hit keep cooL Answer from rom down Stay StaV oF away awa oF from windows Do not sa say Y we are re repeating re re- Auxiliary Air Raid aid Wardens Firemen men men and women Road Demolition Repair epalt and Units Unite Clearance strong Squad husky bUlky a men strong 2 if t IV You on most t likely won wont won't t be bore than have oj fescue crews crows you are trap trapped mood Yd we would rather repeat until we you Auxiliary Police men and women husky hUlky men Fire Watchers and Electrical Repair unit unite trained deeds dee dec depend on Oft rescue mss women other either hit but if are you can epen or try tr trapped pad Aped you Y you ou forget K Nana Aides Aide trained women SQua ds to go IU after A- A you keep Again A Again 1 keep cool anth and wait Dont Don't You can do all those thin things s without any special equipment Emergency Medical Forces Foree men end Decontamination Squads strong men and anel yell after you n hear hair r them coming to you unless they fY tell you to other than what you have now in Y your our home women with Red Cross Crol First Aid Cere Emergency women Food and Housing Unit Keep TJ p cool coo COO 1 You can help lick the Japs with your bare hands if you will Rescue Squads Squad men women who Jao can cook and serve lene serve 1 Just keeping cool hurts the enemy more than anything g else se do just those few simple things Above all keep cool Stay home homo Put out lights y you can do J Keep calm Stay at home homo Put Putout out lights Be ge a g good fellow follow and follow instructions and keep well Do Donot Lie down Stay Stay away from windows You can hp g Li Lie Lio down f not be a wise guy and get hurt U. U S. S OFFICE OF CIVILIAN DEFENSE Fiorello H. H LaGuardia Director Washington D. D C C. C a. a |
