The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-16
'.Speak, Act and Serve To
 gether'' is His Message to
 American People on Their } Duties in Great World
 War. .

Allies-Those at Home , Can Serve as Patriotical-
 lv As Men in Trenches, He
 Says.
 Washington. April 16-A call TOT volunteers for a great service army to heln win the battles of the natiol' and it's allies against the V i,la :. government was issued py FresiuIns wilson last night. 1t was III .no form of an appeal to my leio scountrymen,' and it set tortn tne sl tai necessity for the moplllzalion VI al, the industrial forces or the ooo. try to produce the things necessa.y to help the armies Tn the liei0
 the warships at sea. +;on
 "The supreme test or tne liaan+ ne h.s come" declared the President. ..We must all speak fact' anu seA " together" +o show +Ast the President is more than ever Satsrn,ined that the commerce of the unrId shall not be paralyzed by the fyarmAn
 ..rhe food and the war suppies v,ust he carried across the seas, no r,atter how many ships are sent 70 the bottom he says.
 specifically | the appeal IS address. ed to the farmers, the middlemen oI every sort. those who run the rall- wavs managers and operative em- nloves included; the merchants, the shin builders and shipyard workers the miners, and those who cultlVate gardens. Emphasis is laid upon the necessity of increased food produc- tton. and the farmers of the Soutn are urged to raise abundant 1oou- .tuffs. as we'll as cotton.
 .swithout abundant food alike TOT the armies and the peoples at war; he said, "the whole great enterprise upon which we have embarked VIII break down and fail.
 There is a special appeal, perhaps note of warning in the address to the middlemen.
 saThe eyes of the country will De especially upon you,'' they are told. .sThis is your opportunity for signal service, efficient and disinterested. The country expects you, as 1t ex- poets all others, to forego unusuai profits, to organize and expedlte snip nnenfs of supplies of every kind, but especially of food, 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 shall confidently expect you to deserve and win the confidence or people of every sort and situation.
 It is evident from the Presidents address that he has no faith in the view that the part to be played by this nation in the great war will be largely passive.
 The nrocIamation of the President follows:
 "The White House.
 April 15, 1917. ssMy Fellow Countrymen:
 'sThA entrance of our own beloved country into the grim and terrible war 2 for democracy and human rights which has shaken the world creates 90 many problems of national life, and action which call for immediate consideration and settlement that l hope you will permit me to address to you a few words of earnest counsel and appeal with regard to them.
 we are rapidly putting our navy upon an effective war footing and are about to create and equip great army, but these are the simplest parts Of the great task to which we have addressed ourseHes. There Is not g single selfish elepent. so far as can see, in the cause we arc fighting TOT. We are fighting for what we believe and wish to be the rights of man kind and for the future peace and se- curity of the world To do this great thing wortht1y and successfully we must devote ourselves to the service without regard to profit or material 6afS xSS Slld wit Ii an energy and intelligence that will rise to the, level of the enterprise itself. We must re- alize to the full how great the task Is and how many things, how many kinds and clements of capacity and service and self-sacriflce 1t involves
 '"These, then. are things we must do, and do well, besides fighting-the things without which mere fighting woulds he fruitless: sse
 we must supply abundant food for ourselves and for our armies and our seamen, not only, but also for 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 hum dreds out of our shipyards to carry to the other side of the sea, subma- rinee or no submarines, that will every day be neded there, and abundant nla- terials out of our fields and our 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 gall lant fellows under arms can no longer work; to help clotfe and equip the armies with which we are co-operat- ing in Europe, and to keep the looms and manufactures here in raw mate rial coal to keep the fires going in ships at sea and in the furnaces of hundreds of factories across the sea; steel out of which to make arms and Ammunition both here and there; rails for wOrnOut railways back of the fighting fronts; locomotives and roll ing stock to take the place of those every day going to pieces; mules, horses, cattle for labor and for mil- itary service; everything with which the people of England and France and Italy and Russia have usually supplied themselves, but cannot now afford the men, the materials, or the machinery to make.
 It is evident to every thinking man that our industries, on the farms, in the shipyards, in tho mines, in the factories, must be made more. prolific and moro efficient than ever, and that