Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-04-20
PRESIDENT Isl De T VIII SONS \,
PLEA FOR UNITY.

Washington April personal ann al address I'd 70 o,,
TO his fellow counsrymen Wilson calls upon every AMER
can citzenman and join sether make the ma
lion omit TOR the preserva ion of its ideals triumph
mocracy in the world
THE Supreme has come saws the address
1--WE must all speak. ands We togeth,r"
Putting the footisg raising great army are
the simplest parts of the Pesd ut
ana ne urges all the people with particular upon
to the farmers to en- rgies pr tie econ
prove unselfishness and demo ate efficiency
The address follows:
my fellow counrymen-The VII beloved coun
try into the grim democracy and human
whcn has shaken the world problems
life and action which call for and settlement
n' nope yon viii permit me to address
earnest counsel and appeal with regard to them.
., ~-~ ARMY NAVY Task EASY
We rapidly putting navy upon an ee i've war footing land
are about to great army but these the
lest parts OF the great task which addressed
There single element so far as can sea in tho ar
we are lighting for We fighting believe and wish
to the rights Of mankind peace and security
the world To do this thing wohiy we
must devote ourselves TO the reg to pr or ma
efa advantage and with an and intelligence rise
to the level of the enterprise ITSELF realize to the full how
great the task is and how things many kinds and ee
ments OF capacity and and self involves
These then the things do and do we'll besides
lighting things Without lighting be fruess:
must supply abundant 70 for our armies
and our only of the nation
with whom have cause in whose
and by whose sides shall be fighting
MUST SUPPLY SHIPS BY HUNDREDS
We must supply ships by the hundreds shpyrds to
carry to the other side Nd what
will every day be needed there abundant ont Of ~
neos and our mines and factories with only to che
ano equip our own forces land and co and SUD-
port our people for whom the gaent fellows under arms "a
longer work help clothe equip the armies with which we are
cooperating IN Europe and and
there in MATERIAL coal keep the fires going in shps a,
and In the furnaces of hundreds the ~
OF which to make and here and there rails
WORKOUT railways back of the fighting fronts; locomotives
rohng stock ito take the place day going to
mules horses cattle for labor and for military service
with which the people Of 1ngand Italy aud Russia
nave usually supplied themselves now afford the men
the materials or the machinery make IL,
"Iis evident every thinking man tina, our industries o
arms the shpyard the factories must be made
more prolific and efficient than ever that thew must he
economically managed and better adapted particular REQUIRE
mens OF tasks than they been and want to saw tn
men and women who devote their thought energy to
WI" oe serving the country and conducting fight for
and freedom just truly effectively as the men on
the battlefield or IN fine trenches The ces the conn
try men aud women alike, viii great national oea,
iona service honored host ENGAGED in tho
wee OF the nation and the world friends ana savo,s
free everywhere Thousands nay hundreds of thousands
meu otherwise liable military will of right and of
rom mat service and assigned the sus
tanning ~er OF the fields and factories and thew will be
part of the great patriotic nation the
under fire. ...i i. - s.s' ~ " ,
> SPECIAL PLEA MADE To FARMRRs It
take the liberty OF addressing this word mers tn
county sno to all who work the farms. supreme need of ON
OWN nations with which operating AN abundance
supplies and especially foodsss The Importance Of an
od year superlatv. With
ut abundant feoo alike for the people now war
he whole great enterprise which embarked will
Town and fa The world food low Not onv dinb
ne present emergency 5nt for after peace shall,
both people and aarge portion the people of En-
ope must rely the harvess Upon the
country therefore, large fate of war and
he fate OF the nationssa $50 =,
MAY the nation not upon to omit no stem that mill
ncreae ahe production feir will bring abut RI
lost efectual the distribution of
nctsf The time us Short II the INN
thing done i'm edasely IN n. 10 &c 81 49,