SPEECH TO BE DELIVERED TO BUSINESS MEN'S GROUP

NOTE: This speech is suggested merely as a source of
material for the talk which the business man who uses it
will actually make. He can, and very likely will, put
the story in his own words. The same applies to the
Women's Club speech which follows this.

Ladies and Gentlemen: The day before yesterday I attended
ea meeting in the mayor's office--a meeting called at the request of
Lt. Colonel Donald R. Hyde, Commanding Officer of the Sunflower
Ordnance Works.

Those of you who were at the meeting will agree with me, I
think, that what wo heard was not only interesting but important. The
femy was very frank with us, and the story they told was very simple.
It's this.

Unless production is greatly stepped up during the next few
months, there is going to be a serious shortage of heavy artillery
ammunition and bombs. Unless a lot of men and women who are now daing
other things go to work in plants which make heavy artillery ammunition
and rocket powder--plants such as the Sunflower Ordnance Works plant--
production can not be stepped up. And unless 4000 men and women from
this area go to work in the Sunflower Ordnance Works, the Sunflower
Ordnance Works won't have a ghost of a chance of meeting its production
quota.e

In other words, this community has gct a job to do, and it is
going to be a tough job. But we've been up against tough jobs before,
and we haven't exactly fallen down on them. Unless I'm all wrong about
the place I've lived in for the last years, it's not going to turn
and look the other way when a tough job needs doing. It can do, and
Will do, just as good a job as the other communities that are facing
the samo problem. It's my guess that we can do even a better one than
they can,

Before we start lcoking at the problem, let me say one thing:
I'm a long way from being an expert on nilitary matters. The facts and -
figures I'm going to give you today ere things I've learned from the
frmy within the last few days. So please don't think I'm trying to pose
as an expert.

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