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Here is the greatest national resource of the United States, our children.

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Here are the potential war workers of today, the builders of tomorrow.

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Developing this young potential manpower is one of the most vital parts of the war program.

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It's the greatest work our schools and teachers have ever faced.

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We must succeed here first.

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Well-trained young minds, sound strong bodies are the very makings of a victorious army.

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The full responsibility of this essential preparation of young America

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falls squarely upon the shoulders of our teachers, our schools.

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The first step in preserving good health is a careful and regular checkup.

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Our public schools bring this opportunity for better health to all children.

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Physical training has been a fundamental part of our school program.

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Today, a visit to any training camp shows how well this preparation work is coordinated with the war program.

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Our first aid classes, developed by experienced teachers during peacetime,

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are now an active part of civilian defense, more important today than ever.

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Your government has engaged upon a gigantic program of education on the nutrition value of foods,

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conserving food, and at the same time, guarding health.

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You'll find Mrs. America coming back to school today to learn how to do more with less.

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She's ready to do her part in this war effort, but she needs the help of your school.

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That's the call to the workers of America, more men to build more ships.

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Where will they come from? From the workshops of the schools of our country.

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Here is the nation's greatest reservoir of manpower in training.

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Every facility of every school in the land is being pressed into service

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to meet the unending cry for more trained workmen.

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Under the guiding hands of experienced and highly skilled teachers,

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young America is learning in a few short weeks what it takes to build tanks and planes.

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War workers for the farm are in training too.

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The job of keeping tractors and farm equipment rolling is an essential part of the food production program.

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Woman power, just as vital, has an equal opportunity for training in our schools.

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In the gigantic war workers' army, women are taking over responsible jobs in the factory and in the office.

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Today the training shops of our schools are running day and night.

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Students and adults work side by side.

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More than three million workers have been trained in our school shops in the last two years.

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There is another essential service our schools and teachers render,

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perhaps even more vital than defense training itself.

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You might call it teaching American ideals upon which our democracy is founded.

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Is this important today?

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Maybe you can see the need for this kind of help in the young faces that confront our teachers.

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You can hear it in the questions they ask.

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What are we fighting for?

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Didn't we fight the last war to save democracy?

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What will happen to us when this war is over?

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Can you answer these questions?

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They must be answered.

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Our teachers are trying to help these young citizens find the answer in the things that stand for the American kind of liberty.

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They're trying to explain the kind of love for a country that will make a man die for it,

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as great Americans did 50, 100 years ago.

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A lesson in the responsibility of a democracy.

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Our teachers demonstrate the freedoms we enjoy to work where we choose,

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to worship God in our churches, to write and read what we want,

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to say what we think, to choose our own representatives,

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and to control the course of our government in the free ballot box.

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This is part of the teacher's daily work.

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It goes on every hour of the day.

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That's a sacred trust, isn't it?

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Yet there are communities which pay their teachers as little as $15 a week.

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There are schools that have poor equipment, poorly trained teaching staffs,

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schools that can't begin to do the job.

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Yet this job must be done.

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Young men and women must be physically fit.

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They must learn to use tools.

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Our teachers are trying.

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But they cannot win alone.

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They must have your support.

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All you are asked to do is your part.

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Get acquainted with your school.

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If you want better soldiers and sailors,

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if you want more ships, more planes, more tanks,

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and if you want them faster, if you want victory,

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give your school a chance to do its job.