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OCR Page 1 of 12This Country has a difficult future, but a good one if we have the
courage and energy to make it so. The war will be won -- perhaps not so
easily or soon as we hope. To win the war we must exert the greatest possible
striking power at the front. War today is total war, and power cannot be
exerted at the front unless we have the capacity to produce war materials and
the articles necessary for the maintenance of a sound, healthy, civilian
economy strong enough to endure five years of war, if that should be necessary.
To insure the success of the war effort, we must preserve a healthy balance
between (1) the armed services, (2) the production of war materials and (3)
our civilian economy.) To do all this we must provide adequate transportation
facilities. This means that the railroads must receive the equipment which
they need to maintain their essential service. Operators of trucks and busses
must be able to acquire equipment and parts for repairs without unnecessary
delay and trouble. We must build barges and operate them to carry petroleum
and other heavy products. We must provide tires and gasoline for private cars
in amounts sufficient to maintain reasonably satisfactory living conditions.
We must provide farm machinery for food production and sugar for domestic
canning. We must provide adequate supplies of clothing, shelter for workers,
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fuel for heat, doctors for medical attention and fertilizer for truck and
victory gardens.
The war in the Pacific may be very long if we are to insist upon
total victory. We must insist on total victory and be satisfied with nothing
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