Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-03-10 | Page 2 | Stimson Warns Nation Against Curtailing Army

Stimson Warns Nation Against Curtailing Army WASHINGTON March 10 UP- UP Warning against the danger of ot meddling with the program foran for foran foran an army of ot Secretary of War Stimson urges greater efficiency in industry rather than reduction in the size of the armed forces An attitude of ot trying to win the war in some easy manner and without fob toft much sacrifice he be said has teas been responsible for fot much of of the criticism directed against the size of ot the army The various critics who today I Iare are asking that we should slow up or Interrupt our work he said in ina ina ina a radio address Tuesday night fail to realize the reaching far effect of ot interruption Disrupt Plan Ilan To curtail the size of the army would interrupt the process for lor training forces and in turn he said would disrupt the plan t for r winning the war Plan and process are tied together together to to- gether he continued The plan contemplates a succession of carefully carefully care care- fully directed blows at our e ene enemies epe- epe e- e mies The size and character of these blows and the aggregate forces which are necessary have been en carefully thought out Just Justa a our as-our our are being carried out by men who have been through a years year's training the men mennow mennow mennow now being brought into the army are to be trained for campaigns a year ahead I Our main math object Is to continuously continuously build up a force which will wiil strike without interruption and with cumulative effect That pur pose can be thwarted by a mistake mistake mis mis- take n now w. w Citizens Have Ine Duty It is the duty of every citizen he continued to examine his own life lite and his own community and see whether production in industry indus indus- try and on on the farm cannot be in increased increased in- in creased enor enormously in efficiency whether absenteeism threatened strikes general complacency insistence in insistence insistence in- in on business as usual or even ven even insistence on hoped-for hoped standards of living are not going goinga a along long way to prevent what could be accomplished by an out all-out war effort He asserted the armed forces have placed their house housein in order and declared I now pow la ask k whether Industry and agriculture should not likewise likewise like like- wise be put on a more efficient wartime basis For Ilor myself I l' have re reached ched the conclusion that one ne of the reasons why industry and agriculture and the whole civilian iv lia population have not moved more rapidly to toward ard an out all-out effort is that we have nave relied almost entirely on voluntary cooperation I am convinced that th the only way to accomplish the result which we must all reach is through Ugh a gener general l 8 service act