TABLE 4.-Incidence of poison snakes in 1943 census, by locations (Sept. 18, 1942, to Sept. 4, 1943)

TABLE 5.-Poison snakes in 1943 census, by species and location (Sept. 18, 1942 to

A list of scientific reports and published papers by members of the staff of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, and by some other scientists who visited there for short periods of intensive study of special problems, is given below.

PUBLICATIONS
Entomology

An Annotated List of the Bloodsucking Insects, Ticks, and Mites Known from Panama. G. B. Fairchild. Amer. Jour. Trop. Med., November 1943.

Biting and Stinging Arthropods of Panama. G. B. Fairchild. (Mimeographed for use of the U. S. Army.)

Nota sobre Simulium lutzianus. (Descripcion del adulto.) G. B. Fairchild and L. Briceno-Iragorry. Boletin del Laboratorio de la Clinica Luis Razetti, Caracas, Venezuela, 1942, 3:9.

Protozoology

Serodiagnostic Methods in Malaria. Final Report, 1942, to the Committee on Medical Research of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. Carl M. Johnson. (Restricted information; not published.)

The Age Level for the Peak of Acquired Immunity to Malaria as Reflected by Labor Forces. H. C. Clark. To be presented at the November 1943 meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine.

Malaria Precautions in the Unsanitated Areas. H. C. Clark. Mimeographed article for use in the Canal Zone high schools.

Review of Recent Research on Drug Prophylaxis and Treatment of Malaria. Report to the National Malaria Society for 1943. H. C. Clark. To be published in the official journal of that society.

Miscellaneous

Insect Repellent Investigations. Final Summary. Report for 1942 to the Committee on Medical Research of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. D. M. Jobbins. (Restricted information; not published.)

Imperfectly Differentiated Fevers of the Isthmus. H. C. Clark. (Prepared for the use of local military units; not published.)

New and Noteworthy Snakes from Panama. Emmett R. Dunn. Notulae Naturae, No. 108, September 17, 1942, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, pp. 1-8.

Survival Value of Varietal Characters in Snakes. Emmett R. Dunn. The Amer. Naturalist, 1942, 76: 104–109.

PUBLICATION REFERENCES FOR ARTICLES LISTED IN PREVIOUS REPORTS

Notes on Tabanidae (Dipt.) from Panama. X. The Genus Tabanus Linn., and Résumé of the Tabanidae of Panama. G. B. Fairchild. Annals Ent. Soc. America, 1942, 35:4: 441-474.

American Trypanosomiasis. Carl M. Johnson. Medical Clinics of North America, May 1943 (New York number), pp. 822-834.

Some Impressions of Medical Practice in the Tropics. President's Address, 1942, The American Academy of Tropical Medicine. Herbert C. Clark. Amer. Jour. Trop. Med., 1943, 23: 1:11-15.

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2d Session

No. 377

RECOMMENDING THE PASSAGE OF A NATIONAL SERVICE LAW AND OTHER ACTS

MESSAGE

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

TRANSMITTING

A RECOMMENDATION FOR THE PASSAGE OF A NATIONAL SERVICE LAW AND OTHER ACTS, BEARING ON THE COST OF LIVING, TAXATION, STABILIZATION, AND TO PREVENT UNDUE PROFITS

JANUARY 11, 1944.-Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed

To the Congress of the United States:

This Nation in the past 2 years has become an active partner in the world's greatest war against human slavery.

We have joined with like-minded people in order to defend ourselves in a world that has been gravely threatened with gangster rule.

But I do not think that any of us Americans can be content with mere survival. Sacrifices that we and our allies are making impose upon us all a sacred obligation to see to it that out of this war we and our children will gain something better than mere survival.

We are united in determination that this war shall not be followed by another interim which leads to new disaster-that we shall not repeat the tragic errors of ostrich isolationism--that we shall not repeat the excesses of the wild twenties when this Nation went for a joy ride on a roller coaster which ended in a tragic crash.

When Mr. Hull went to Moscow in October, and when I went to Cairo and Tehran in November, we knew that we awere in agreement with our allies in our common determination to fight and win this war. But there were many vital questions concerning the future. peace, and they were discussed in an atmosphere of complete candor and harmony.

In the last war such discussions, such meetings, did not even begin until the shooting had stopped and the delegates began to assemble

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at the peace table. There had been no previous opportunities for man-to-man discussions which lead to meetings of minds. The result was a peace which was not a peace.

That was a mistake which we are not repeating in this war.

And right here I want to address a word or two to some suspicious souls who are fearful that Mr. Hull or I have made "commitments" for the future which might pledge this Nation to secret treaties, or to enacting the role of Santa Claus.

To such suspicious souls-using a polite terminology-I wish to say that Mr. Churchill, and Marshal Stalin, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek are all thoroughly conversant with the provisions of our Constitution. And so is Mr. Hull. And so am I.

Of course we made some commitments. We most certainly committed ourselves to very large and very specific military plans which require the use of all allied forces to bring about the defeat of our enemies at the earliest possible time.

But there were no secret treaties or political or financial commitments.

The one supreme objective for the future, which we discussed for each nation individually, and for all the United Nations, can be summed up in one word: Security.

And that means not only physical security which provides safety from attacks by aggressors. It means also economic security, social security, moral security-in a family of nations.

In the plain down-to-earth talks that I had with the Generalissimo and Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill, it was abundantly clear that they are all most deeply interested in the resumption of peaceful progress by their own peoples-progress toward a better life. All our Allies want freedom to develop their lands and resources, to build up industry, to increase education and individual opportunity, and to raise standards of living.

All our Allies have learned by bitter experience that real development will not be possible if they are to be diverted from their purpose by repeated wars-or even threats of war.

China and Russia are truly united with Britain and America in recognition of this essential fact:

The best interests of each nation, large and small, demand that all freedom-loving nations shall join together in a just and durable system of peace. In the present world situation, evidenced by the actions of Germany, Italy, and Japan, unquestioned military control over disturbers of the peace is as necessary among nations as it is among citizens in a community. And an equally basic essential to peace is a decent standard of living for all individual men and women and children in all nations. Freedom from fear is eternally linked with freedom from want.

There are people who burrow through our Nation like unseeing moles, and attempt to spread the suspicion that if other nations are encouraged to raise their standards of living, our own American standard of living must of necessity be depressed.

The fact is the very contrary. It has been shown time and again that if the standard of living of any country goes up, so does its purchasing power and that such a rise encourages a better standard of living in neighboring countries with whom it trades. That is just

plain common sense-and it is the kind of plain common sense that provided the basis for our discussions at Moscow, Cairo, and Tehran. Returning from my journeyings, I must confess to a sense of letdown when I found many evidences of faulty perspectives here in Washington. The faulty perspective consists in overemphasizing lesser problems and thereby underemphasizing the first and greatest problem.

The overwhelming majority of our people have met the demands of this war with magnificent courage and understanding. They have accepted inconveniences; they have accepted hardships; they have accepted tragic sacrifices. And they are ready and eager to make whatever further contributions are needed to win the war as quickly as possible if only they are given the chance to know what is required of them.

However, while the majority goes on about its great work without complaint, a noisy minority maintains an uproar of demands for special favors for special groups. There are pests who swarm through the lobbies of the Congress and the cocktail bars of Washington, representing these special groups as opposed to the basic interests of the Nation as a whole. They have come to look upon the war primarily as a chance to make profits for themselves at the expense of their neighbors-profits in money or in terms of political or social preferment. Such selfish agitation can be highly dangerous in wartime. It creates confusion. It damages morale. It hampers our national effort. It muddies the waters and therefore prolongs the war.

If we analyze American history impartially, we cannot escape the fact that in our past we have not always forgotten individual and selfish and partisan interests in time of war-we have not always been united in purpose and direction. We cannot overlook the serious dissentions and the lack of unity in our War of the Revolution, in our War of 1812, or in our War Between the States, when the survival of the Union itself was at stake.

In the First World War we came closer to national unity than in any previous war. But that war lasted only a year and a half, and increasing signs of disunity began to appear during the final months of the conflict.

In this war, we have been compelled to learn how interdependent upon each other are all groups and sections of the population of America.

Increased food costs, for example, will bring new demands for wage increases from all war workers, which will in turn raise all prices of all things, including those things which the farmers themselves have to buy. Increased wages or prices will each in turn produce the same results. They all have a particularly disastrous result on all fixed income groups.

And I hope you will remember that all of us in this Government represent the fixed-income group just as much as we represent business owners, workers, and farmers. This group of fixed-income people includes teachers, clergy, policemen, firemen, widows and minors on fixed incomes, wives and dependents of our soldiers and sailors, and old-age pensioners. They and their families add up to one-quarter of our 130,000,000 people. They have few or no high-pressure representatives at the Capitol. In a period of gross inflation they would be the worst sufferers.