El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-16
WILSON URGES
UNITED ACTION
Says Nation Must Produce
as Well as to Fight If War
Is to Be Won.

ton, both here and there: rails for
worn out railways back OF the fighting
fronts; locomotives and rolling stock
70 take the place Of those every day
Ior labor and for military service:
everything with which the people Of
England and France and Italy and
russia have usually supplied th,m-
serves but cannot now afford the men.
me materials or the machinery 20
make.
Industrial Service Patriotic.
II IS evident TO every thinking man
that our industries. in farms. in ship
ards, IN the mines, IN the factories.
must be made more prolific and more
@iflcient than ever and that they must
De more economically managed and
better adapted TO the particular re-
guirements OF our task than they have
been and what I want to say is that
the men and the women who devote
their thought and their energy TO these
Things VIII be serving the country and
conducting the fight for peace and free
dom just as truly and just as effec-
lively as the men on the battlefield
or in the trenches
The industrial forces Of the country.
men and women alike, VIII be a great
national, q great international service
army notable and hOnored host en-
EaSed in the service Of the nation and
he world. the efficient friends and
saF1ors of free men everywhere
Hundreds Of Thousands Needed.
Thousands. nay hundreds of thous-
snds OF men otherwise liable to mill
tary service will of right and OF ne
eessity be excused from that service
and assigned to the fundamental sus-
tanning work Of the fields and fac
sories and rines. and they will be as
much part Of the great patriotic force
q the nation as the men under fire
supreme Need IL FOOdStuffS.
7 take the liberty. therefore. Of ad-
dressing this word TO the farmers OF
me country. and TO all who work on the !
arms The supreme need Of our ma !
ton and Of the nations with which I
We are cooperating is an abundance /
Of supplies. and especially Of foOdstuffs. I
The importance of an adequate food :
supply. especially for the present year,
$ superlative- Without abundant food. .
alike for the armies and the peoples +.
now at war. the whole great enterprise I
upon which we have embarked viii 4
break down and fail. The worlds food
reserves are low.
Not only during the present emer-
Eency, but FOR some time after peace
shall have come both our own people
q nd large proportion OF the people OF
Europe must rely upon the harvests in
America Upon the farmers Of this
country. therefore. in large measure
ests the iste OF the war and the
late of the nations MAY the nation
not count upon them TO omit no step
nat will increase the production OF
their land or that viii bring about the
a nd distribution of their food prOducts7
Plant Abundant Food Crops.
particularly appeal 10 the farm
ers OF The south to plant abundant
foodstuffs as we'll as cotton. They
an show their patriotism in no better
or more convincing way than by re-
slstng the great temptation OF the
present price OF cotton and helping,
helping upon a great scale. TO feed the
nation and the peoples everywhere who
re fighting for their liberties and for
1ur own The variety OF their crops
VIII be the visible measure or their J
Of their national duty 7
L =. Will Cooperate
The government OF the United State g
sd the governments Of the several Z
.Iatas stand ready 10 cooperate They
sill do everything possible 10 assist
armers IN securing an adequate sup y
III Of seed, an adequate force Of Ia j
]orers when most needed at harvest
Inc and means Of e1pedltinS Snip
Rent OF fertilizers and farm machin- :
~. as well as Of the crops themselves o
when harvested The course Of trade L
hall be as unhampered as il is pos
iible TO make II and there shall be e
o unWarranted manipulation of the
atoms food supply by those who
iandle il on its way to the consumer Z
ne efficiency OF the great democracy ! s
nd we shall not fail short OF il. r
FOregO Unusual Profits 9
This. let me say 10 the middlemen "
T every sort, whether they are hand a
ing our fOodstuffs or our raw materials "
4 manufacture or the products OF our a
nills and factories The eyes Of the a
Ountry Will be especially upon you. 2
his your opportunity for signal SER y
ice, efficient and disinterested. The 81
ountry expects you, as il expects all II
theirs, to foregO unusual profits. to n
rganlze and expedite shipments OF u
Upplies Of every kind. but especially / Y
Z food, with an eye to the service you r,
re rendering and in the spirit Of those I
Tho enlist in the ranks, for their peo- ! r,
le- not for themselves. 1 shall con- 3
identity expect you to deserve and win [
he confidence Of people Of every sort
nd station.
To the Railway Men <
To the men who run the railways Of I s.
le country, whether they be managers q