The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1917-04-18

MY fellow countrymen: The entrance of
our beloved country into the grim and terrible
war of democracy and human rights which has
shaken the world, creates so many problems of
national life and action which call for immedi-
ate consideration and settlement that hope you
will permit me to address to you few words of
earnest council and appeal with regard to them.
No Selfish Element
I'VE are rapidly putting our navy eff
fectiye war footing 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 l see, in the cause we are
fighting for. We fighting for what we be-
lieye 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 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 of elements of capacity
and service and self sacrifice it involves.
Things We Must DO
These then, are the things we must do and
do we'll besides fghting-the things without
which mere lighting would be fruitless We must
supply abundant food for ourselves and for our
armies and our seamen and also for a large part
OF tho nations with whom we have now made
common cause, In whose support and by whose
sides shall be fighting.
Must Supply Ships
we must supply ships by the hundreds out
of shipyards TO carry TO the other side OF
the sea, submarines or no submarines, what will
every day be needed there and abundant ma
terials out of our fields and our mines and our
factories with which not only to clothe and
equip our own forces on land and sea. bat also
Vd pot our people for vi ON tie
sal ant fe .o@s under arms can no .onge. sork
u.le nd e .lip armies with which
e a4e operating in Europe, and to keep the
looms and manufacturers there In raw material;
coal to keep the fires going In ships at sea and
IN tie furnaces of hundreds of other factories
-cross tie sea- steel out of which to make arms
and ammunition, both here and there, rails for
worn out railroads back of the fighting fronts;
locomotives ard rolling stock to take the places
Of those every day going TO pieces; mules
horses, cattle for labor and for military service;
everything with which the people of England
France and Italy and Russia have usually sup
piled themselves. but cannot now afford the
men, the material or the machinery to make
Must Bc More Efficient
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 efficient than ever and that they must be
more economically managed and better adapted
to tie particular requirements of our task than
they have BEEN and what want to say is that
the men and women Who devote their thoughts
and their energy to tAese things will be serving
tie country and conducting the fight for peace
nd freedom just as truly and Just effectively
IS the men on the battlefield or in the trenches
"The industrial forces OF tie country, men