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Show OUR PART IN DEFENSE Much of the success of the nation's defense program pro-gram will depend upon the cooperation we give in this very city. On the surface it might not seem as if there is much we could do but when we think of this community as one of thousands of similar towns, which, together, hold over half of our nation's population, it is evident that the success of any national program depends on our help of other cities like ours. Nobody in this city expects that we are going to be invaded by an enemy in the near future. But if potential po-tential enemies knew that every town and city in America Am-erica was prepared to defend itself against any eventuality even-tuality it would act as a powerful warning against attempting any monkey-business with Fifth Columns, bombs or planes. One of the chief parts we can play in defense, however, is to attempt to handle locally the domestic do-mestic problems which we are facing. If the federal fed-eral government can be relieved of settling problems prob-lems of unemployment, farm surpluses, and farm prices, labor problems, and countless other localized lo-calized difficulties, the major work of defense could be speeded immeasurably. Many of us, in recent years, have come to expect more and more help from the federal government. In many cases, the conditions which created this need for help were too interwoven with problems of the ! whole nation to make local solution possible. But we can make a real effort to lean on the federal government as little as possible. If we will work together to try to solve the problems of l those in our community locally, we will find many instances where the patient can throw away gov- j ernment crutches and start walking alone. |