NATIONAL SERVICE ACT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 13 January 1944, Page 5

NATIONAL SERVICE ACT

PRESIDENT’S RECOMMENDATION Washington, Jan. 11. 2 “I have for three years hesitated to recommend the National Service Act; >e to-day I am convinced of its necessity,” ks said President Roosevelt in his annual [e message to Congress. “Although I bes fieve we*and our Allies can win the war ts without such a measure I am certain nothing less than total mobilisation of , r all our resources of manpower and capital will guarantee earlier victory and reduce the toll of suffering, sorrow and blood. I have received joint recommendations for this law from the heads of the War and Navy Departments, and the Maritime Commission. These men bear the responsibility for the procurement of the necessary war equipment and the successful prosecu2. tion of the war in the field. There are d millions of American men and women :r who are not in this war at all. It is d not because they do not want to be in ll it, but they want to know where they n cap best do their share. National Ser--2 vice provides for that, n “The direction of policy that guided n us at Moscow. Cairo and Teheran,” l- concluded the President, “ is based on io tde commonsense principle best exi. pressed by Benjamin Franklin in 1776, r> ‘ we must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.’ I have n often said there are no two fronts for America in this war. There is only one front. There is only one line of unity which extends from the hearts of the people at home men of our attacking forces in the Far East outposts. Each and every one of us has the solemn obligation under God to j serve his nation in the most critical i hour, to keep the nation great and make ; i- the nation greater in a better world ” : i- ' j 1, “QUACK MEDICINE” al [_ New York, Jan. 12. I ) . de Washington correspondent of the j ! N ® w York Times” says a Labour it voiced strong opposition to i President Roosevelt’s pi'oposed national ■ service legislation. The C. 1.0. presi-! dent, Mr Murray, termed the proposal i “Quack medicine.” The spokesman dis- | ■ agreed with the President’s contention ! l ) that the legislation would prevent j a strikes and pointed out that Britain i >b and Canada have compulsory service I laws. Nevertheless, strikes are increasi- ing in those countries, t- Wholeheartedly endorsing th [) scheme, the “New York Times” in an 6, editorial says: “The enactment would w give Berlin and Tokio complete final 1; proof that we intend to fight the war -’S to the full limit of our power and i) ability.”