The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-04-16
WILSON H. lALS
TO MAINLY
OF AMERICA
Asks Aid of[Vey Man, Woman and
Child in Nations SupIeme Test
INDUSTRY CALLED TO ACTION
supreme Need Of Country In Great
Crisis Is Increased Supplies,
Particularly Foodstuffs.

Washington, April 16.-m a per
sonal appeal addressed last night tt
his fellow countrymen President vii
son calls upon every American citizer
IMAM, woman and child--to join to
gether to make the nation uni
for the preservation of its ideals anG
for triumph of democracy in the world
war. THE supreme test OF the nation
has come" says the address. 1--WE
must all speak, act and serve togeth
err" Putting the navy on war foot
ing and raising great army are the
simplest parts of the great task ahead
the president declares, and he urges al
the people, with particular emphasis
upon his words to the farmers, to con.
centrate their energies, practice econ
omy; prove unselfishness and demon
strate efficiency. The address follows:
1.-THE entrance of our beloved
country into the grim and terrible
war for democracy and human rights
which has shaken the world creates
so many problems of national life and
action which call for immediate con-
sideration and settlement and | hope
you will permit me to address to you
a few words of earnest counsel and
appeal with regard TO them.
Navy Approaches War Footing
I'VE are rapidly putting our navy
upon an effective war footing and are
about to create and equip a great
army, but these are the simplest parts
of the great task to which we have
addressed ourselves. There is not a
single selfish element, so far as | can
see, in the cause we are fighting for.
We are fighting for what we believe
and wish to be the rights of mankind
and for the future peace and security
of the world. To do this great thing
worthily and successfully we must de
vote ourselves to the service without
regard to profit or material advantage
and with an energy and intelligence
that will rise to the level of the en-
terprise itself We must realize to
the full how great the task is and
how many things, how many kinds
and elements OF capacity and service
and self-sacrifce it involves.
These, then, are the things we
must do and do well, besides fighting
the things without which mere
fighting would be fruitless:
1--WE must supply abundant food
not only for ourselves and for our
armies and our seamen, but also for
a large part of the nations with whom
we have now made common cause, in
whose support and by whose sides we
shall be fighting;
I'VE must supply ships by the hun
dreds out of our shipyards to carry
to the other side of the sea, subma-
rines or no submarines. what will
every day be needed there and abun-
dant materials out of our fields and
cur mines and our factories with
which not only to clothe and equip
our own forces on land and sea, but
also to clothe and support our people
for whom the gallant fellows under
arms can no longer work. to help
clothe and equip the armies with
which we are cooperating in Europe,
and to keep the. looms and manufac
tories there in raw material, coal to
keep the fires going in ships at sea
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factories acros the sea, steel out of
which to make arms and ammunition
both here and there, rails for worn-out
railways back of the fighting fronts,
locomotives and rolling stock to take
the place Of those every day going to
pieces; mules, horses, cattle for labor
and for military service-everything
with which the people of England
France, Italy and Russia have usually
supplied themselves but cannot now
afford the men, the materials or the
machinery to make
Industries Must Be More Prolific
''It is evident to every thinking man
that our industries, on the farms. in
the shipyards in the mines, in the fac
tories. must be more prolific and more
emclent than ever ana tnat tney must
be more economically managed and
better adapted to the particular re-
quirements of our task than they have
been: and what | want to say is that
the men and the women who devote
their thought and their energy to
these things will be serving the coun-
try and conducting the fight for peace
and freedom just as truly and just as
effectively as the men on the battle
field or in the trenches. The indus
trial forces of the country, men and
women alike, will be a great national,
a great International service army-a
notable and honored host engaged in
the service of the nation and the
world. the efficient friends and saviors
of free men everywhere. Thosuands
nay, hundreds of thousands of men
otherwise liable to military service