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Show WHAT IS CIVIL PERUSE! What is Civil Defense? Civil defense is the housewife, cleaning the attic. It is the country doctor, organizing organ-izing a mobile first-aid team. It is the school teacher, adapting adapt-ing fire chills to other emergencies. It is the father showing his son how to make a splint. Civil defense is the mayor, explaining ex-plaining why his town must help other communities if disaster does come. It is the utilities worker, locating loca-ting a broken gas main. It is the fireman, training auxiliaries. aux-iliaries. It is the grocery store manager, displaying emergency food sup- plies. It is the farmer, donating a pint of blood. It is the ham radio operator, contacting con-tacting an isolated city. It is the high school boy, testing a fire extinguisher. It is the laundry driver, learning learn-ing to convert his truck to an ambulance. am-bulance. It is the welfare worker, making a stove from brick and tin cans. Civil defense is the city engineer, engin-eer, cataloguing heavy equipment the psychologist, studying panic the building superintendent, making ma-king shelter areas. It is tiie positive program as positive as the word, "Prepare." The civil defense movement is based bas-ed on the premise that our vast oceans have been reduced to streams and that America is now vulnerable to a hundred atomic Pearl Harbors. Civil defense is a calm, steady approach for conditioning people against the mental and physical shock that would accompany an attack at-tack on our cities. It is your home, your children, your backyard and civil defense is you, preparing for any emergency. emergen-cy. With an effective program we will have the confidence to face whatever may come and the knowledge know-ledge we need to protect ourselves. |