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MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
Defense Savings Pledge Campaign
Started April 16-Enable All to Help
Simply an Indication How Much You Expect to Invest
This week each of us in Nome is offered an oppor
tunity we are all eager to accept, namely, an oppor
tunity to help our government win the war. All of us
now realize that this war is not in Europe—not in the
Far East. It is war in America. It is a war right here
in Nome. We know that the losses we have suffered in
the Pacific mean that each of us here at, -home must
tighten his belt and face the grim reality of a hard
war. Make no mistake about it; America is in a fight
to the death and we’ve got to win it. Some of us, I’m
afraid, do not realize the seriousness of our position.
The truth is that our military might depends on our
unity, on the willingness of each one of us to join
hands and pull together for victory. When it is not
possible for us to join the armed forces, we should try
and get work in a defense industry and help increase
our war production.
And the rest of us can work harded and faster. We
can use less vital products and help preserve that
which may be needed for the war. We can join in the
Civilian Defense. And, too, all of us can and should
save as much as possible of our incomes by investing
in Defense Bonds regularly to the limit of our ability.
So, beginning April 16th, the citizens of Nome are
uniting in a new Defense Savings pledge campaign.
We are all signing pledges that we will invest a cer
tain amount of our incomes in Defense Bonds and
Stamps regularly month by month or week by week.
These pledge cards will be sent to our Government in
Washington to let them know how much they can ex
pect from us to help pay the cost of this war. Of course
the amount each of us pledges will be kept entirely con
fidential.
In Nome we have a group of volunteer men and wo
men who have been made regular members of the De
fenseS icings Committee, one op whom will call at
your home or office and ask you to join our campaign.
Welcome your committeeman or woman and make
your pledge as generous as you possibly can. Your
pledge is not a legal order for Defense Bonds—it is
simple an indication of how much you expect you
will be able to invest in Defense Bonds and stamps for
the duration of the war.
Of course if we need the money, these bonds can be
cashed in as early as sixty days after purchase, but if
allowed, the bonds will mature and increase in value
more than 33 percent thus by lending Uncle Sam our
dollars we are building up a substantial savings for
ourselves to lean upon after the war when we may
need the money more than we do now. After the war,
some of us will be looking for jobs and these Bonds:
Will he p us buy the *ood and merchandise we need,
and thus set our peacetime industries going again.
We appeal to every man and woman to join in this:
campaign and save to save America. Let’s not wait to
be asked to sign a pledge card, let’s not have to be
convinced by long arguments and statements to the ef
fect that this is our duty. Be ready to sign your pledge
when the Committeeman or Woman comes to your
home or office. The Japanese and Nazis—when "they
attacked us—did not wait to be asked. Telephone your
Defense Savings headquarters and ask for a pledge
card. One of the committee will call at your home or
office for your signature. You’ll feel 100 percent proud
er and happier when you get behind our fighting forc
es and do your share to help them win. If one of the
Savings Committee does not call on you within the
next week, call Civil Defense Headquarters and leave f
your name, a call will be made promptly.
During the pledge campaign starting April 16th,
you will be asked to sign a pledge to buy United Stat-J
es Defense Bonds and Stamps regularly. Your pledge
card will be sent to Washington for the United States
Treasury to file in it’s confidential record. The pur
chase pledge is to give every American the opportun
ity to enroll in our country’s war effort and to provide
a steady stream of cash for planes, tanks, ships and
guns. Be ready to pledge every dime and dollar you
can. Let’s show the nation that Nome is all out for
Victory 100 percent.
And remember, your signing this pledge is your pat
riotic duty only, and is not binding in any other than
a moral obligation on your part to do the best you
can as long as you are financially able to do so.
The intention of this campaign for pledge signers is
to give your Government an opportunity to figure
ahead the amount they can expect to collect for Bond
and Stamp sales, and so enable them to make prepar-,
aliens for the purchase of equipment with which to j
win this war.
New Interpretation Of
Occupational Deferment
A new interpretation on occupational deferment
from service in the armed forces for men engaged in
civilian activities actually necessary to war produc
tion, or essential to the support of the war effort, was
announced today by National Headquarters, Selective
Service System.
The memorandum, signed bv Brig. Gen. Lewis B.
Hershey, Director of Selective Service, said:
“When Selective Service began, late in 1940, our
nation was at peace. With the advent of war on De
cember 8, 1941, the requirements of the armed forces
and the demands for war production were drastically
increased. Men and materials are being drawn from
the nonessential activities and being directed in in
creasing numbers and amounts to the use of the armed
forces, to war production, and to other activities sup
porting the war effort.
“Many of the benefits, conveniences and comforts
which the people of this Nation have enjoyed in peace
time must necessarily be given up in the national in
terest. Now only those civilian actvities which are
really necessary to war production or essential to the
support of the war effort can be accorded the protec
tion of occupational deferment from military service
in the armed forces.”
Defining civilian activities which support the war
effort, the memorandum states:
“Selective Service Regulations provide that in Class
II-A shall be placed any registrant who is found to be
a ‘necessary man’ in industry, business employment, i
agricultural pursuit, government service, or any other
service or endeavor, the maintenance of which is es
sential to the national health, safety, or interest.
Now that we are at war, the phrase “national health,1
safety, or interest, no longer includes a mere conven
ience and comfort. Activities essential to the ‘national
health, safety, or interest’ are now limited to those!
activities, other than war production which support
the war effort. Activities supporting the war effort in
clude those activities which provide food, clothing, *
shelter, health, safety and other requisites of our
daily life.
‘ In order that an activity may be considered essen
tial to the support of the war effort, its facilities must;
be predominantly devoted to that purpose.”
Pointing out that Selective Service regulations pro
vide that, to be placed in Class II-B, a registrant must
be a “necessary man” in any industry, business, em
ployment, agricultural pursuit, a governmental ser- ;
vice, or other service or endeavor, the maintenance '
of which is necessary to the war production program, ;
the memorandum states:
“With reference to such civilian activities, the':
phrase ‘necesary to the war production program’ now;:
means the work of processing or producing ships, 1
planes, tanks, guns and other machines, instruments,!'
articles, and materials directly used in the prosecution b
of the war.”
Emphasizing that in order to be deemed a “neces- I *
sary man” a registrant may be engaged in a “critical j
occupation,” National Headquarters said that “critical**
occupations” exist only in activities necessary to war!*
production or essential to the support of the war ef-*'
fort, adding: ;;
11 the activity is neither necessary to war produc- *
t:on nor essential to the support of the war effort, then •
no occupation within that activity can be considered ■
as a critical occupation’ and, in such case, there is pro •
vided no brounds for occupational classification.” *
Also, National Headquarters said: *
N»ot all occupations within activities necessary to 1
the war production or essential to the support of the '
war effort are “•critical occupa-i _ '
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in an activity necessary to war
production or essential to the j
support of the war effort i.s not
itself a ‘critical occupation' then,
in sucli case, there is provided!
no grounds for occupation classi-i
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tiaincd, qualified or skilled men, 1
and the training of replacements '
which woud permit replacement1
of “necessary men,” the memo- *
randum says:
“The training of persons or
‘critical occupations' in activities
necessary to war production and
in either activities essential to
the support of the war effort will
be undertaken and maintained in
such a manner that, as much as
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be relieved, contemplated short
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menus will be provided for men
now occupationally classified,
and replacements will be provid
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the necessity of occupational de
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Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps
NENV PLEDGE CAllO FOR BONDS AND STAMPS: Above is a facsimile of a pledge curd, calling
for the systematic purchase of Defense Bonds and Stamps, which every American citizen is now being
asked to sign. Die. country must have billions of dollars to carry on the war. When you are approached
be sure you sign onoof these pledge cards for as much as you possibly can!