The Coconino sun., 1917-05-04
PRESIDENT WILSON NOW
 APPEALS FOR MORE FOOD
My Fellow Countrymen:

for democracy and human rights which has shaken the world creates so many problems of national life and action which calls for immediate con sideration and settlement that 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 ourselves. There is not a single selfish element, so far as l can see, in the cause we are fighting for. We are fighting for what we believe and wish tc 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 devote ourselves to the service with out regard to profit or material ad- vantage and with energy and intellig- ence that will rise to the level of the enterprise itself. We must realize to the full how great the task is and how many things, how many kinds and el- ements of capacity and service and self-sacrifice, it involves.
 These, then, are the things we must do, and do well, besides fighting the things without which mere fight ing would be fruitless:
 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 common cause, in whose support and by whose sides we shall be fight ing.
 We must supply ships by the hun dreds out of our shipyards to carry to the other side of the sea, submar- ines or no submarines, what will every day be needed there, and abundant materials 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 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 manufactures there in raw material; coal to keep the fires going in ships at sea and in the fur naces of hundreds of factories across 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; locomot- ives 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 and France and Italy and Russia have usually supplied themselves but can not 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 the mines, in the factories, must be made more prolific and more efficient than ever and that they must be more economically man. aged and better adapted to the partic- ular requirements of our task than they have been; and what l want to say is that the men and the women who devote their thought and their energy to these things will be serving the country and conducting the fight for peace and freedom just as truly and just as effectively as the men on the battlefield or in the trenches. The industrial forces of the country, men and women alike, will be great na- tional, 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. Thousands, nay, hundreds of thous- ands, of men otherwise liable to mili- tary service will be right and of nec- essity be excused from that service and assigned to the fundamental, sus- taining work of the fields and factor ies and mines, and they will be as much part of the great patriotic forces of the nation as the men under fire.
 take the liberty, therefore, of ad- dressing this word to the farmers of the country to all who work on the farms: The supreme need of our own nation and of the nations with which we are cooperating is an abundance of supplies, and especially of food stuffs, The importance of an adequate food supplv. especially for the present