On the
Home Front

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Chapter I.
WHAT VOLUNTEERS CAN DO

In these days when democracy is threatened as it never
has been before, every good American wants to make a
positive contribution to national defense. Many people
who cannot perform military service are troubled be~
cause they do not know what they personally can do as
volunteers. Actually there is a job of some kind
waiting for all of us in our home commumities. For

it is a fact that the home front is as important in its
way as the military front. Our soldiers on leave, as
well as the workers in our defense factories and their
families need opportunities for play and self~expres-
sion off the job. So indeed do all the people in every
community big and little. Ina time of entiones emer=
meas like the present, when strains increase, all the
people need healthy recreation more than ever before.
Recreation, as you know, means being re~created, or
renewed,

In case your community has not already organized a
recreation program the first step is the setting up

of a Defense Recreation Committee. This Committee
should be responsible to the local defense council,

or where no defense council exists, to the local

governmental authorities.