The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-05-11
Friday, May 18th, 1917
FARMERS!

LG ISSlOCIlC VI eiiS
States appeals to you and to the
men, women, and children on
the farms as follows:
My Countrymen:
The entrance of our own
beloved country into the grim
and terrible war for democracy
and human rights which has
shaken the world creates so
many problems of national life
and action which calls for i'm
mediate consideration and settle
ment 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 foot
ing and are about to create and
equip a great army, but these
are the simplest parts of the
great task to which we have ad-
dressed ourselves. There is not
single selfish element, so far
as I can see, in the cause we are
fighting for. We are fighting
for what we believe and wish to
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 without regard to profit
or material advantage and with
an energy and intelligence that
will rise to the level of the en-
terprise itself. We must realize
to the full how great the task is
and how many things, how many
kinds and elements Of capacity
and service and self-sacrifces, it.
involves.
These, then, are the things we
must do, and do we'll, besides
fighting, the things without
which mere fighting would be
fruitless:
We must supply abundant food
for ourselves and for our armies
and our seamen not only, but
also for a large part of the ma
tions with whom we have now
made common cause. in whose
support and by whose sides we
shall be fighting.
We must supply ships by the
hundreds out of our shipyards to
carry to the other side of the
sea, submarines orno submarines,
what will every day be needed
there, and abundant materials
out of our fields and oar 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 coope-
rating in Europe, and to keep
the looms and manufactures
there in raw materials; coal to
keep the fires going in ships at
sea and in the furnaces of hum
dreds of factories across the sea;
steel out of which to make arms
and ammunition both here and
there; rails for WORKOUT railways
back of the fighting fronts; loco
motives and rolling stock to take
the place of those every day 60
ing 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 u.s.
ually supplied themselves but
cannot now afford the men, the
materials, or the machinery. to
make.
1t 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 eff
ficient than ever and that they
must be more economically man.
aged and better adapted to the
particular requirements of our
task than they have been; and
what | 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 a great
national, a great international,
Service Army, "a notable and
honored host engaged in the SER
vice of the nation and the world, !
the efficient friends and saviors
Of free men everywhere Tho1c- |