The Red Cloud chief., 1917-04-19
Urges Abundant Acreage

no pains n no other labor is lacking
in this great matter.
Urges Abundant Acreage
81 particularly appeal to the farm.
ers of the south to plant abundant
foodstuffs as well as cotton. They
"a show their patriotism in no bet.
ter way or more convincing way than
by resisting the great temptation of
the present price of cotton and help
ing upon a great scale to feed the
nation and the people everywhere
who are fighting for their liberties
and for Their own. The variety of
their crops will be the visible measure
OF their comprehension of their ma
tional duty.
THE government of the United
States and the governments of the
several 4tates stand ready to cooper
ate. They will do everything pos
sible to assist the farmers in secur-
ing an adequate supply of seed, an adj
equate force of laborers when they
are most needed at harvest time, and
the mean of expediting shipments of
fertilizers and farm machinery, as
well as of the crops themselves when
harvested. The course of trade shall
be as unhampered as t is possible to
make it and there shall be no UNI
warranted manipulation of the ma
tons food supply by those who ham
die it on its way to the consumer.
This is u opportunity to demon
strate the efficiency of the great de-
mocracy and we shall not fall short
of it.
"And let me say to the middle man
OF every sort, whether they are han
ding our foods or our raw materials
for manufacture or the products of
our mills and factories: The eyes of
the country will be especially upon
you. This is your opportunity for
signal service, efficient and disinter-
ested. The country expects you, as
it expects all others to forego unus-
ual profits, to organize and expedite
shipments of supplies of every kind,
especially food stuffs, with an eye to
the service you are rendering and in
the spirit of those who enlist in the
ranks, for their people, not for them
selves, l shall confidently expect you
to deserve and win the confidence of
the people of every sort and station.
ITO the men who run the railways
of this country, whether they be man
ayers or employees, let me say that
the railways are the arteries of the
nations life and that upon them rests
the immense responsibility of seeing
to it that those arteries suffer no OBJ
struction of any kind, no inefficiency
or slackened power. To the merchant
let me suggest the motto: "Small
profits and quick service" and to the
ship builder the thought that the life
of the war depends upon him. The
food and the war supplies must be
carried across the seas, no matter
how many ships are sent to the bot
tom. To the miner let me say that he
stands where the farmer does: The
work of the world waits on him. If
he slackens or fails, armies and states
men are helpless. He also is enlisted
in the great service army. The man
ufacturer does not need to be told, !
hope, that the nation looks to him to
speed and perfect every process: and
| want only to remind his employees
that thr serveices are absolutely in
dispensable and are counted on by
severy man who loves the country and
it's liberties.
"Let me suggest that every one
who creates or cultivates a garden
helps, and helps greatly to solve the
problem of the feeding of the nations
and that every housewife who prac-
tlces strict economy puts herself in
the ranks of those who serve the ma
ton. This is the time for America to
correct her objectionable fault of
wastefulness and extravaganza. Let
every man and every woman assume
the duty of careful. proyident use and
expenditure as a public duty, as a die
tate of patriotism which noa one can
now expect ever to be excused or for
given for ignoring.
"In the hope that this statement OF
the needs of the nation and of the
world in this hour OF supreme crisis
may stimulate those to whom it comes
and remind all who need reminder of
the solemn duties of a time such as
the world has never seer before. ]
beg that all editors and publishers ev-
erywhere will give as prominent pub
LEGATION and as wide circulation as
possible to this appeal. / venture to
suggest also, to all advertising ag-
encies that they would perhaps render
a very substantial and timely service
TO the country if they would give il
widespread repetition. And I hope
that clergymen will not think the
theme of it an unworthy or inappro.
pirate subject of comment and HON.
:'y from their pulpits.
"The supreme test of the natior
has come. We must all speak, ac'
Woodrow WILSON,