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WHY WE NEED
CIVIL DEFENSE
Civil Defense Seen As Strong As
"Yon and Your Neighbors
Mike It"
It has been a hundred years and more since our pioner ancesters fought for and settled rural America. We know how hard they worked together, the life-anddeath chances they took—o n e hand on the plow and the other on a musket—to establish homes and families on the lands that are now our farms.
Things have changed much since then. Not the basic things for whch they fought. Not liberty or the desire for peace and happiness. But our way of living.
No longer is the farm far from the city. The city is as near as our telephones, power lines, paved highways. The city is the source of our farm machinery, gasoline, electri<^'ty and thousands of important things that mean comfort and well-being for our families. The city is the market for our farm production.
Today, cities and farms are tied together and depend on each other.
That’s why there is an urgent need today for the setting up of strong evil defense organizations n the smaller cites and rural areas of the nation, to cooperate wth the teivil defense organizations in the large cities, which presumably would be likely targets if America should aver be attacked.
Everyone hopes that we never will be attacked, and that there
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