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Show CIVILIANS OFFERED AN OPPORTUNITY OPPOR-TUNITY TO SERVE THEIR COUNTRY AS SHIP- BUILDERS 7 The New Year Will Offer Many Opportunities Op-portunities For Patriotic Service. Civilians are called upon to start the New Year with a resolution to serve the country, it possible, in some industrial capacity in a statement issued is-sued here today by the'U. S. Public Service Reserve of the Department of Labor. The Reserve enrolls men who are willing to do war work and records re-cords their qualifications for the benefit bene-fit of war industries that may be In nr ed of their abilities. The month of January has boen chosen by the Reserve Re-serve for a special drive in the Northwest North-west to secure enrollment of median-'to median-'to who can take up shipbuilding. No previous experience in building, ships is required, .as shlpwork can be done by most any man skilled with tools. The Reserve calls, attention to the pa- j triotlc service and the good wages of-1 fered. Wm.. Edwin Hall, national director, di-rector, said today: : "The New Year will offer many opportunities op-portunities to civilians to be of service ser-vice to the country. X great number of ships must be built, tenfold tho tonnage ton-nage launched In the United States a year ago. (Airplanes must be turned out in quantities. (Munitions and soldiers' sol-diers' equipment, almost without limit, lim-it, must te produced. These things !are the civilian's working contribu-i contribu-i tion to the noble cause for wblc'a the United States is at war. To any civilian civil-ian who lias not yet responded to the obligation, this New Year's Resolution lis suggested; . 'Resolved, that until ' the United States has won its battle 'for democracy, 1 will stand ready to (work for my country, subordinating personal interests, to the utmost of my ability.' " ) |