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Show WASHINGTON NE4WS x"l .fS?iT .. FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER United States Declares War Moving with unprecedented speed, to answer the Japanese assault as-sault upon this nation's Pacific possessions, Congress on the 8th day of Decemebr, 1941, ' voted to declare war on Japan. The vote was 82 to 0 in the Senate and 388 to 1 in the House. The President Presi-dent spoke only 6 minutes and 30 seconds, compared with Woodrow Wilson's 29 minutes and 34 seconds. sec-onds. Congress approved the resolution reso-lution in the record time of 33 minutes after President Roosevelt bitterly denounced Japanese aggression. ag-gression. The President personally delivered his message to a joint session of the House and Senate. Debate, such as was had between April 2, 1917, when Woodrow Wilson Wil-son requested war against Germany, Germ-any, and April 6, when a declaration declar-ation of war was approved by Congress, was missing at this time. And on December 11, 1941, the Congress declared war on the other two axis powers. The Senate Sen-ate acted first, approving the German resolution recoginzing existence ex-istence of hostilities by a vote of 88 to 0 and the Italian, 90 to 0. The House votes were 393 to 0 and 399 to 0, respectively, on the German and Italian resolutions. President Roosevelt did not personally per-sonally appear at the Capitol to deliver his second message, but it arrived by special messenger, was received by the Congress at 12:24 p.m., and adopted by 1:04 p.m., As with one voice, the Congress has proclaimed to the world at large that this war was none of our seeking, but that, since it has come, we shall see it through to the last resource of our strength in men, money, material equipment equip-ment and in moral courage. The time for debate is over the time to act is here. Responsibility Respon-sibility for the fateful decision has been taken out of our hands. While Japanese diplomacy was pretending to seek peace, Japanese Japan-ese militarism was calmly and carefully preparing the blows that fell on our navel and military bases. Decent young American soldiers and sailors have been shot down by representatives of a nation na-tion they had no reason to take for an enemy. The roar of bombs exploding on Hawaii and the Philippines Phil-ippines has drowned out every cry of partisanship or political strife in the United States. Today we know but one duty to stand together to-gether as . Americans under the leadership of our President. We may be certain that from this point on, nothing will be permitted per-mitted to impede American production pro-duction or to delay for a single moment the full flow of our great strength into this battle for survival. sur-vival. In this hour of crisis, every man, woman and child in the United States should act with courage, quiet strength and a magnificent display of national unity. For we know that America can win and will win! Air Raid Instructions Remember! Every locality in which is located an instrumentality instrumen-tality useful for defense, such as: Defense airports, munition plants, and supply depots, will come under un-der the category of military objectives ob-jectives and are, under the rules of international law, subject to enemy attack. If you live in such a community, then you should know some of the fundamental rules to remember in event of an air raid: Keep cool -keep your head don't listen to rumors. Don't follow any excited person who may be screaming. He may be trying to create panic. Keep off the streets during the raid. If you're more than five minutes from home when an air raid comes, lie down under shelter otherwise go home and stay there. Put out the lights if the planes come over. The lights that are out will never guide an enemy bomber. Don't wait for the last warning. Keep all unnecessary lights out anyway.' In case of a raid, lie down indoors, in-doors, away from windows. Fix a refuge room in your home or apartment the room with the least glass. Put curtains or drapes, portieres, or blankets, or any light-proof material over the windows. Take the things you need eyeglasses, playing cards, magazines, maga-zines, food, drinking water, toilet facilities, a screen, a table with good stout legs and a mattress for each member of the family into this room. Lie down on the mattress. mat-tress. Wait until it's over. If you have a portable radio take in the refuge room. Use it to listen for official announcements. announce-ments. Cooperate with your air raid warden he's your friend he'll help you. Choose one member mem-ber of the family to be the home famly air raid warden who will remember all of these rules mother is the best. Stay away from windows. By night or by day it is dangerous for you and it helps the enemy if you peer out. The Call To Colors The call to arms is ringing in the ears of every single American Ameri-can in this land. To men, to women, to youngsters and oldsters alike each one of us has his part to do. Winning a war isn't just loading a gun and firing a bullet it goes much farther and deeper than that. It starts with evry tiny detail of our daily lives. We must be more watchful, less wasteful, not only of big things but of little things as well. Soon we will be called upon for even greater conservation of material; ma-terial; greater contributons to to public welfare; greater cooper-aton cooper-aton in buying Defense Bonds and other measures that will be inaugurated in-augurated to win the war. Save paper, rags and other materials instead of buring them. Cooperate Cooper-ate in a great many of these ways that appear to be small, but which on the whole are extremely important im-portant contributions toward a saving of time, money and material mater-ial so vital in winning the war. |