The Alaska daily empire., 1917-04-16
Grim and Terrible War Creates Many Problems which Must Be Met
 by Americans.
INSTRUCTION GIVEN ALL
Housewife, Miner and the Merchants and Others Appealed to by
 the President.

WASHINGTON, April 16-Presi dent Woodrow Wilson today issued an appeal to the people of the Ma tion. In this appeal the President says:
 My Fellow countrymen
 "The entrance of our beloved coun try into the grim and terrible war fare for democracy and human rights. which has shaken the world creates so many problems of nation al life and action which call for i'm mediate consideration and settle ment that I hope you will permit me to address to you few words oi earnest counsel and appeal with re gard to them.
 we are rapidly putting our navy on an effective war footing and we are about to equip great army But these are tho simples part of the great task to which we have ad dressed eurselyes. There is not a single selfish element, so far as can see, in the cause we are fighting for we are fighting for what we be- lieve, what we wish to be the rights of mankind, for the future peace and security of the world.
 .a s"To do this great thing worthily and successfully we must devote :, ourselves to the service without prof 1t or material advantage. with an en ergy and intelligence that will rise to the level of the enterprise itself
 These, then, are things we must do and do well. besides fighting, the things without which mere fighting would be fruitless.
 we must supply abundant food for ourselves, for our armies, and our seamen. not only, but also for a large part of the nations with whom we have now made common cause in whose support and by whose side we shall be fighting
 We must supply ships by the hun dreds out of our shipyards to carry to the other side of the sea, sub . marines or no, submarines, what will every day be needed there, and abun dant materials out of our fields, and our mines and our factories. with which to equip and clothe our own forces on land and sea, but also to clothe and support those people for whom the gallant fellows under arms can no longer work to clOthe 1; we must equip the armies with which we are cooperating in Eur. ope; to keep the looms of the man ufactories there in raw materials; coal to keep fires going in the ships at sea and in the furnaces of hun dreds of factories across the sea steel out of which to make arms and ammunition, both here and there; rails for worn-out railways; backfiring fronts of locomotives and rolling stocks to take the places of those every day going to pieces; mules, horses and cattle for labor and military purposes; in fact every thing with which the people of Eng land, France, Italy and Russia have usually supplied themselves but con not now afford men. materials and machinery to make"
 The President said that the men sustaining work in the fields, fac tories and mines, will be as much a part of the great patriotic forces of the nation as the men under fire"
 In the appeal to farmers. he said "The supreme need or our own na ton and nations with which we are cooperating. is an abundance of sup plies, especially food-stuffs. The i'm portance of adequate food supplies especially for the present year, is superlative Without abundant food alike for the armies and the peoples now at war. the whole great enter prise upon which we have embarked will break down and fall.
 "The worlds food reserves are low I particularly appeal to the farmers of the south to plant abundant food stuffs, as we'll as cotton. They car show their patriotism in no better nor more convincing way that re slsting the great temptation of the present price of cotton and helping upon . great scale to feed the na ton and people everywhere. who art