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Show President Roosevelt Issues Message To Youth Of Nation Because of the current tendency for youths to disrupt their education edu-cation to participate in current emergency activity, President Roosevelt recently issued the following fol-lowing statement to all youth directors to urge young people to continue their normal course of education. The President says: "Reports have reached me that some young people who planned to enter college col-lege this fall, as well as a number num-ber of those who attended college last year, are intending to interrupt inter-rupt their education at this time because they feel that it is more patriotic to work in a shipyard, or to enlist in the Army or Navy, than it is to attend college. Such a decision would be unfortunate. "We must have well-educated and intelligent citizens who have sound judgment in dealing with the difficult problems of today. We must also have scientists, engineers, en-gineers, economists and other people with specialized knowledge, to plan and to build for national defense as well as for social and economic progress. Young people should be advised that it is their patriotic duty to continue the normal course of their education, unless and until they are called, so that they will be well prepared pre-pared for greatest usefulness to their country. They will be promptly notified if they are needed for other patriotic services." |