Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-04-20
APPEALS
TO LOYAL CITIZENS
AMERICANS URGED TO STAND TO-
GETHER FOR COMMON GOOD
IN WAR WITH GERMANY.
Special Appeal Made to Farmers and
Industrial Forces Of the Country
to Give Freely Of Service for
Benefit Of Country.

Washington.-In a personal appeal
addressed to his fellow countrymen,
President Wilson, on April IL, called
upon every American citizen to join
together to make the nation a unit
for the preservation of its ideals and
for triumph Of democracy In the world
war
Putting the navy on war footing
and raising a great army are the
simplest parts Of the great task ahead,
the president declares, and he urges
all the people with particular en-
phasis on mis- words to the farmers to
concentrate their energies, practice
economy, prove unselfishness and
demonstrate efficiency.
The president declared that 1T Is
evident to every thinking man that
our industries, in farms, in shipyards,
in the mines, in the factories, must
be made more prolific and more eff
Gent than ever and that they must
be more economically managed and
better adapted to the particular re-
quirements 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 coun.
try and conducting the fight for peace
and freedom just as truly and just as
effectively as the men on the battle
field or In the trenches. The indus
trial forces of the country, men and
women alike, will be great national,
a great international service army
d notable and honorable host engaged
1 In the service of the nation and the
world, the efficient friends and saviors
of free men everywhere. Thousands,
nay, hundreds of thousands of men
otherwise liable to military service
will, Of right and Of necessity, be ex
cused from that service and assigned
to the fundamental, sustaining work
Of the fields and factories and mines,
and they viii be as much part Of the
great patriotic forces of the nation as
the men under fire.
Il take the liberty, therefore, of
addressing this word to the farmers
Of the country and to all who work on
the farms: The supreme need of our
which we are cooperating is an abun.
dance of supplies, and especially OF
foodstuffs. The importance of an ade-
quate food supply, especially for the
present year, Is superlative. Without
abundant food, alike for the armies
and the peoples now at war, the whole
great enterprise upon which we have
embarked will break down and fail
The worlds food reserves are low
Not only during the present emergen
cy, but for some time after peace shall
have come, both our own people and
large proportion Of the people O.
Europe must rely upon the harvesti
Ia america. Upon the farmers Of THU
country, therefore, in large measure
rests the fate Of the war and the fats
of the nations. May the nation no
count upon them to omit no step tina
will increase the production of theil
land or that will bring about the mos
effectual cooperation in the sale ans
distribution of their food products
The time Is short. It is of the mos
imperative Importance that everything
possible be done and done immediate
ly to make sure of large haryests.
call upon young men and old alike AM
upon the able-bodied boys of the LAM
to accept and act upon. this duty,
turn In hosts to the farms and max
: certain that no pains and no labor L
lacking in this great matter.
i particularly appeal to the farm
ers of the south to plant abundan
foodstuffs as well as cotton. They cal
show their patriotism in no better o
: more convincing way than by resist
: ing the great temptation of the pres
ent price of cotton and helping, hell
> ing upon great scale, to feed tn
nation and the peoples everywher
Mho are fighting for their liberties an
for our own. The variety or thei
crops will be the visible measure c
their comprehension of their nations
duty.
ITO the men who run the railway
of the country, whether they be mar
ayers or operative employees, let m
say that the railways are the arterie
n of the nations life and that upon thel
rests the immense responsibility {
seeing to IL that those arteries SUITE
no obstruction of any kind, no inc
4 ficency or slackened power. To til
merchant let me suggest the motto
Small profits and quick service, an
to the shipbuilder the thought that til
life OF the war depends upon him. TT
food and the war supplies must /
carried across the seas no matter no
4 many ships are sent to the bottor
The places of those that go down mu
be supplied and supplied at once. I
the miner let me say that he stant
where the farmer does; the work
the world waits on him. If he slac
ems or fails, armies and statesmen a
helpless. He also is enlisted in Il
great service army