The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-16
BIG IMPETUS TO
FOOD CAMPAIGN
Pres. Wilson's Appeal for
Unity of Action Will
Bear Fruit
AMERICAN SUCCESS
IN WAR NEEDS 1T
President Calls for Unity of
Action by All the
People

President Wilson's appeal for unity O
action in furthering American success il
the world war.
"The supreme test of the nation has
come" says the address. 1--WE must all
speak, act and serve together"
Putting the navy on war footing and
raising great army are the simplest
parts of the great task ahead, the presi.
dent declares, and he urges all the people
with particular emphasis upon his words
| TO the farmers, to concentrate their en-
ergies, practice economy, prove unseltsh-
ness and demonstrate efficiency.
! The address follows:
my Fellow Countrymen;
The entrance OF our own beloved coun-
! try into the grim and terrible war for
democracy and human rights which has
shaken the world creates SO many prob
lens Of national life and action which
call for immediate consideration and set
tlement that | hope you win permit me
to address to you few words of earnest
counsel and appeal with regard to them.
I'VE 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 single selfish element so
far as | can see. in the cause we are fight
ing for. We are fighting for what we be-
lieve and wish to be the rights of man
kind and for the future peace and secur-
ity Of the world. To do this great thing
worthily and successfully, we must de-
vote ourselves TO the service without re-
gard to profit or material advantage, and
with an energy and Intelligence 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 elements of capacity and
self sacrifice il involves.
These, then, are the things we must
do and do well. besides fighting the
things without which mere fighting would
be fruitless:
Eve must supply abundant food for
ourselves and for our armies and our sea
men. but also for large part of the ma
tions with whom we have now made COM
mon cause, in whose support and by
whose sides we shall be fighting.
"We must supply ships by the hun
dreds ont Of our shipyards to carry to
the other side of the sea, submarines or
no submarines. what will every day be
needed there and abundant materials out
of our fields and our mines and our fac
tories 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 eo-operat- !
ing in Europe, and to keep the looms and /
there in raw material; |
coal to keep the fires going in ships at |
sea and in the furnaces of hundreds of
across the sea; steel out of
which to make arms and ammunition both
here and there; rails for worn out rail
ways back of the fighting fronts; loco
motives 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
he people of England and France and
italy and Russia have usually supplied
but cannot now afford the
men. the materials or the machinery to
make.
"It is evident to every thinking man
hat our industries on the farms, in the
ihipyards. in the mines. in the factories,
must be made more prolific and more eff
lent than ever and that they must be
more economically managed and better
adapted TO the particular requirements
II our task than they have been. and
What want to say is that the men and
he women who devote their thought and
heir energy to these things would be
erving the country and conducting the
ight for peace and freedom just as truly
nd Just as effectively as the men on the
,attlefeld or in the trenches. The in
ustrial forces of the country. men and ,
women alike, will be a great national, a
reat international service army-a not :
bic and honored host engaged in the
ervice Of the nation and the world, the /.
flicient friends and saviors of free men
vervwhere Thousands, nay. hundreds /,
I thousands of men otherwise liable to ! /,
military service will Of right and of me- /,
essity be excused from that service and
ssigned TO the fundamental sustaining
rork of the fields and factories and mines :
nd they will be as much a part of the
reat patriotic forces of the nation as
he men under fire.
81 take the liberty therefore. of ad
ressing this work TO the farmers Of the
ountry and to all who work on the
arms The supreme need of our own ma u
ion and of the nations with which we ,
re cooperating Is an abundant sup
". especially FOR the present year. The
Importance Of an adequate food supply,
specially for the present year, is super D
tive. without abundant food alike for
he armies and the peoples now at war,
he whole great enterprise upon which we
ave embarked will break down and fail.
he worlds food reserves are low. Not y
lIy during the present emergency but y
" some time after peace shall have come q
9th cur own people and large proper y
on Of the people OF Europe must rely =
pon the harvests in America Upon the b
lrmers OF this country. therefore. in q
rre measure. rests the fate Of the war n
N the fate Of the nations. Nav the b
4 ton not count upon them to omit no y
pp that will increase the production of q
leir land or that viii bring about the Al
ost eiTectual cooperation in the sale al
"a distribution Of their productss The Al
me is short II Is Of the most impers ia
re importance that everything possible m
done and doae Immediately 10 make 60