At the base of an adequate civil defense is the self-reliant individual, fortified with every possible training and plenty of practice, prepared to do everything he can do to protect himself in an emergency with assurance and without panic. In addition he is prepared to extned efficient aid to his family, his neighbors, or the people down the street. (Wadsworth, The National Civil Defense Plan, 1952, p. 4) in public information we are doing fairly well. We have distributed over 57 million pieces of paper; these papers have included six or seven public booklets, air raid alert cards, pamphlets describing household first-aid kits and various other things - all of them very inexpensive. Many millions of them have been bought by the general public from the Superintendent of Documents. This brings revenue to the Government. In fact, the public information part of our program has brought more into the Federal Government than the Federal Government has spent for it. (Ibid., p. 11)