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Show Mobilization Week For 4-H Groups Importance of 4-H boys and ! girls in the national program dur- rag war time became more evident this week when members of the Utah Agricultural Extension service ser-vice staff received the official proclamation for Mobilization Week, April 5-11, from the office of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roose-velt. Ini his statement, establishing the six days as national Mobilization Mobiliza-tion Week, President Roosevelt stressed the need for cooperation of the youth of the nation and appealed ap-pealed for cooperation. The official offi-cial proclamation follows: "In an hour when our nation needs the active support of every group of its people, it is gratifying gratify-ing to learn that the 4-H clubs will hold a National Mobilization Week, to rally the million and a half members, and spur them to greater efforts in the cause of freedom. It is to be hoped that the National 4-H Mobilization Week also will bring more rural young people into active participation partici-pation in the useful work in which 4-H club members engage. "Your laqtivities in producinig, preserving, and preparing food; in making clothing and your other practical experiences in farming and homemaking, have prepared you for many tasks important in peacetime and indispensable in wartime. No other group of rural young people anywhere else in the world has so much worth defending, defend-ing, or is better prepared to defend de-fend what it has. "Your 4-H club pledge embodies the obligation which rests upon every club member as a young citizen. Repeat it, study it, make it a part of your very being. Let your head, heart, hand, and health truly be decTicated to your country which needs them now as never befoiV iSigned: Franklin D.l Roosevelt. ; The purposes of the Mobiliza-: tion Week are to outline the situa-1 tion of 4-H clubs in war-time, to suggest how 4-H clubs may serve j this country and to get the respective respec-tive clubs actively organized. The last objective organizing the respective re-spective clubs ie especially important im-portant for without efficient organization or-ganization the one and a half million members cannot meet the' production goals requested by, governmental officials. i Last year the 4-H clubs pro. duced 2,000,000 bushels of garden; products; raised 5,500,000 birds,' 75,000 head of dairy cattle, 260,-1 000 head of swine, and 186,000 head of other livestock. The girls, j canned 11,000,000 jars of farmj ! products and carried out club pro-, jjects in clothing and food prepara-j prepara-j tion. ' j This year, members will be ask-; ask-; ed to work even harder to meet the seven-point program that was adopted for 1942. This program includes: interpret the total vie-' tory program to the community; i produce and conserve needed food supplies for home and abroad; save for victory; develop our (Continued on last page) 1 4-H Club Week i (Continued from first page) health and that of the community; acquire useful technical and mechanical me-chanical skills; practice democratic I procedures and learn to appreciate better our democratic way of life; try to understand some of the im. portant social and economic forces now at work. |