Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1917-04-19
PRESIDENT MAKES APPEAL FOR
ALL TO DO SERVICE
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| ing shipments of fertilizer and farm
machinery, as well as of the crops
themselves when harvested. The course
of trade shall be as unhampered as it is
| possible to make it, and there shall be
no unwarranted manipulation of the
nation food supply by those who
| handle it on its way to the consumer.
| This is our opportunity to demonstrate
the efficiency of the great democracy
and we shall not fall short of it.
This let me say to the middlemen
of every sort, whether they are han
ding our foodstuffs or our raw ma
terials to manufacture, or the products
of our mills and factories The eyes
of the country will be especially upon
you. This is your opportunity for
signal service, efficient and disinterest-
ed. The country expects you, as it
expects all others, to forego unusual
profits, to organize and expedite ship
ments and supplies of every kind, but
especially Of food, with an eye to the
| service you are rendering and in the
spirit of those who enlist in the ranks,
for their people, not for themselves. l
shall confidently expect you to deserve
and win the confidence of people OF
loNSly SoIb SIdIlOn.
"To the men who run the railways
of the country, whether they be man
ayers or operative employees, let me say
that the railways are the arteries of the
nation s life and that upon them rests
the immense responsibilities of seeing to
| it that these arteries suffer no obstruc-
ton of any kind, no inefficiency or
slackened power. To the merchant let
aa,% tl,n g.,
| and quick service and to the ship
builder the thought that the life of the
war depends upon him. i he food and
the war supplies must be carried across
the seas no matter how many ships are
sent to the bottom. sThe places of those
| that go down must be supplied at once.
| To the miner let me say that he stands
where the farmer does; the work of the
| world waits on him. If he slackens or
| fails, armies and statesmen are helpless.
| He also is enlisted in the great service
army. The manufacturer does not need
to be told, hope, that the nation looks
] to him to speed and perfect every pro-
cess; and | want only to remind his EN-
ployes that their service is absolutely
Indispensable, and is counted on by
every man who loves the country and
its liberties.
"Let me suggest also that everyone
who creates or cultivates garden helps
and helps greatly to solve thu problem
of the feeding of the nationc and that
every housewife who practices strict
economy puts herself in the ranks of
those who serve the nation. This is the
time for America to correct her unpar-
donable fault of wastefulness and extra
vagance. Let every man and every
woman assume the duty careful, piovi
dent use and expenditure as a public
duty, as dictate of the patriotism
which no one can now expect to be eX
cused or forgiven for ignoring.
Gin the hope that this statement of
the needs of the nation and of the world
| in this hour of supreme crisis may
stimulate those to whom it comes and
remind all who need reminder of the
solemn duties of time such as the
world has never seen before, | beg that
all editors and publishers everywhere
will give as prominent publication and
as wide circulation as possible to this
appeal. | venture to suggest also to all
advertising agencies that they would
perhaps render very substantial and
timely service to the country if they
would give it widespread repetition. l
hope that clergymen will not think the
theme of it an unworthy or inappro-
pirate subject of comment and homily
from their pulpits.
"The supreme test of the nation has
come. We must all speak, act and serve
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