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 PROCLAMATIONS-SEPT. 16, 18 , 1940 The Congress has debated without partisanship and has now enacted a law establishing a selective method of augmenting our armed forces. The method is fair, it is sure, it is democratic-it is the will of our people. After thoughtful deliberation, and as the first step, our young men will come from the factories and the fields, the cities and the towns, to enroll their names on registration day. On that eventful day my generation will salute their generation. May we all renew within our hearts that conception of liberty and that way of life which we have all inherited. May we all strengthen our resolve to hold high the torch of freedom in this darkening world so that our children and their children may not be robbed of their rightful inheritance. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this sixteenth day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. FIRE PREVENTION WEEK-1940 September 18, 1940 [No. 2426] Preamble. Fire Prevention Week. Designation of week beginning Oct. f6,1940, as. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS untimely death by fire or painful injury from flames and smoke is the tragic fate of an appalling number annually of men, women, and children; and WHEREAS avoidable fires caused damage to property in the United States during 1939 amounting to approximately $275,000,000, an increase over the annual losses in recent years; and WHEREAS public alertness and attention are most effective means of ensuring the establishment of adequate safeguards in places where destructive fires may occur: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, do hereby designate and pro- claim the week beginning October 6, 1940, as Fire Prevention Week, and I urge that civic leaders and the press cooperate in promoting throughout the Nation, during that week, discussions and measures of action that will lead to the prompt elimination of fire hazards and to increased vigilance at potential points of danger. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 18" day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, and of [SEALJ the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT 2742 [54 STAT.

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