Show SPEECH ON RA RATIONING the war ar has come to america oOna ladies and gentlemen as we all know it am t I 1 just t that we we are now aware that we are all in it in it together until victory its much deeper than an that at b broad d statement we have come came to be gud glad to make sacrifices for the sake of that victory some of us are waiting biting tor for dear ones ana to return home t to us to rat return from military d duties m this country try or ob abroad d some of us are engaged in or ar work on an the home front vital lobs jobs in facto factories ries geared for fair war and equally vital jobs on forms farms producing food for far war needs we are am buying war heads bonds we are cutting down don on our amu amusement iet fi and lux uries unes we are am rationing our food taken all together these are our jobs on an the home front the job on the fighting front is in infinitely finitely greater you are watching point stamps a boy in navy blue ot is oat watching ching the deadly v buhite hite path of a torpedo or a dive bomber gain going miles per par he hour before plunging down for the kill it its hard for you to get a 4 steak W well ell we its hard for a couple of wounded a marines to drag themselves out of a shell hole to signal thard for help hell hard for you to get sir air lom the then how hard for them to get a do doctora bor and you real cant have airee a cups of coffee every day how about the cha chap P in heavy wool clothing sn snowshoeing snow shoeing through a seventy mile an hour bmw bl blizzard blid id or the chop chap to in cotton w whose hose tank in the desert sun son is too hot to lay a bare hand on are you worried about a couple of extra cups of coffee every day lots let s be honest three those chaps are using the things you cant get these day your nylon stockings are am sav ing a soldiers soldier s life because became the ny la ion is as part of his pa parachute debut he flows floats down to earth and to safety on the fabric while youre wearing acta cotton instead and thinking 0 of if it t not one ne of you wo would it have it different and your car agthe is m the g gar age your car is be being N 9 driven only a minimum youre saving ing ruber ruba a as your government has ordered so lets look over this phrase straight ta on just for a second th this phrase yow your government what a is rt it wh who 0 is it anyway your goic govern beor you what your government is its you there them is no differ difference im between your govern ment and you its been that way since seventy aty a six so wil when your government sends fuel oil to war ou u send rt it who when your 9 government mt rations simes shoes you haw have put shoe leather on the f feet eat of your ImI soldiers cheria but youit you aren it saving go gas because became your government has ordered it you re saving be because ause a son or oc a nephew of youal yours speeding in is a destro destroyer y or at forty knots dropping depth bombs on the nazi m me e and ad his destroyer destroy is using ing your year gas and oil and ad youre saving your yaw rubber tires because they the ones once you h aint got zt we are on a 3 plane wring wing ing g ow our men to victory victo a and finally home been agam again would you have it any other way waya would you keep the gasoline out of the planes in africa would y you u buy a lot of extra shoes just to look smarter me ner than your neighbor put ut I 1 can still hear some of you ay this is 0 the richest country in the t he world and so it is america la Is the richest country I 1 in re the world but not rich enough to fight figh t a 8 91 global b aawar war without noticing 1 it t there 0 are limits to americas wealth we have jus at so many boats beets just so an many arres acres of if farmland just so an me ma ny cres acres of farmland just so many pounds of rubber oh we all 11 know knew the fab fabulous doms statistics millions of bathtubs bath tubs millions he of telephones le phones millions of fur coats coate and billions of lose loaces laii of bread yards of r cotton attim units of electric electra power millions and billions of this and ad that and we all 11 know knew what hot it looks look like the golden reach r os of america the beamut beautiful the black alack veins of coal which stretch tor for miles the hidden oceans oceana of petroleum lying under whole mun counties t as the mountains of good wheat flour floor W wherever air ar wi we have looked we saw the riches of the greatest nation on the earth and above all these rich es the greatest wealth of all the healthy children the stalwart men the lie open churches the fine free schools and the thousands thousand of uncensored n car re newspapers papers saying what we want as said 7 and thinking just what we think th without ishmit fear with out apology without secrecy all told the wealth of america is beyond tally no man can count it up but it is not endless now lets forget the statistics just imagine taking a very great part of that wealth and sending it to war exactly what we are doing we are ans taking soy bm beans and sending them rate into facto factories for plas pies tea we are taking the wood we have the manpower to cut and are am sending to the shipyards ft for the bewes beams and li planks look of boats we are sending a a great part of americas america s wealth to war we all know that we me are in to favor of that but we foi forget comet sometimes ira ca we forget that what we have sen to war ar e cannot we use at home N we forget that what we produce f for war cannot be bought at home ve ry simply we forget that we can not eat our cake and have it too we even forget that if half of our cake is a eaten up on the battlefront the other half bell means smaller portions for each of us at home but bui ew even a those sa portions bear out t the fact of Anner america was s great wealth 1 in other countries ration ing 9 is tiff stiff even with rationing other countries suffer deprivations and grew grave hardship but for us here ration rationing mg means a smaller variety and also smaller portions of a fc few things smaller part portions because became we have less lease to divide d de its easy enough to forget the other part of the story I 1 if we dont divide divid lt it somebody goes hungry I 1 think that that we forget that put part because became we never imagine that it may be ourselves going hungry anyway the whole point about rationing fionin tio ning the whole reason for it is sharing and sharing fairly |