to go at the job from every angle, and the Army is going to help
all it can. But this is only part of the job, und a part of the
job which only some of us can do, because we can't all be on
committees. :

But we can all talk <= we can tell everyone we know just what
this problem is, how important it is, and that this community has
got to do its part in helping solve the problems. If you get the
important people in an american community behind any idea, I don't
care what it is, you can put that idea over. You people in this
room can sell the importance of this problem to the people of this
community -~ if you will. I don't know how meny of you know people
who can actually go to work at the Sunflower Ordnance Works, but
if you talk about it every day, everywhere, what you say will
reach the people who can go to work at Sunflower Ordnance Works.

There is only one more thing I want to say. Did you ever stop
to think of the number of men who were killed in the last hour of
the last war? If the war had ended one hour earlier -- sixty short
minutes earlier, those men would have lived -- to come home to
their mothers and fathers und sisters, to their wives, to their
sweethearts.

This is a bigger war, a tougher wer, than the last one, Its
last hour is still a long way off, and no one knows how many men,
how many americans, will be killed in that last hour.

But we do know this. Right here in this community, by doing
everything we can to help the army produce the weapons it needs,
we can help shorten the number of hours that Americans have to
fight in Ekurcpe, in asia, and in the Pacific. And each hour
which we help to cut from the end of this war, will mean thut
hundreds -- maybe thousands -= of americans will not die --
but will live, will live to come home to their mothers, fathers,
and sisters, tc their wives, to their sweethearts.

Some of them will come heme here, to this community -~ to
us, the pecple of this room. I should like to ask a question.
How many of you have someone close to you, someone dear tc you,
in the Armed Forces? Will you put up your hends, pleaseeececesee
Thank YCUseovvesccesere

I don't need to ask whether you ~- we -- all of us -~ will
do everything we can to bring them home ~=- SoOCNsec+es and alive.

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