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that will bring about the most effectual CO
the sale and distribution of their products?

the sale and distribution of their products?
that everything possible be done and done mme
datey to make of large harvess call upon young
land to accept and act upon this duy-o in hosts
to the farms and make certain that pains and labor
is lacking in this his great matter. a.. sou.s -
plant abundant foodstufs well cotton. They
show their patriotism in no better or more convincing
way than by resisting the great temptation of the
price of cotton and helping helping upon great SCALE
to feed the nation and the peoples everywhere who are
fighting for their liberties and for The variety
of their crops will be the visible of their
prehension of their national duty.
The Government of the United States and the Gov
ernments of the several States stand ready to cooperate
They will do everything possible to assist farmers in
of aborers when they most needed at harvest time
and the of expediting shipments of fertilizers and
farm machinery, as we'll as of the crops themselves
The of trade shall be unhampered as it is
manipulation of the nations food supply by those who
handle it its to the consumer This oppor-
and we shall not fall short of it.
This let me say to the middlemen of every Sort
whether they handling foodstuffs
materials of manufacture the products of mills
and factories The of the country will be especially
efficient and dsinterested The country expects you as
it expects all Others to forego unusual profits to
but especially Of food With an eye to the You are
rendering and in the spirit of those who enlist in the
ranks for their people, not for themselves shall
fdenty expect you deserve and win the confidence of
people of every sort and station.
TO the men who run the railways OF the country,
whether they be managers operative employees let
say that the railways are the arteries of the nations
life and that upon them rests the immense response
by of seeing to it that these arteries suffer obsruc
ton of any kind, no ineffciency slackened power
To the merchant let me suggest the motto; Small
profits and quick service: and to the shpbuder the
thought that the life of the depends upon him.
The food and the supplies must be carried
the seas no matter how many ships are sent to the
bottom The places of those that 60 down must be sup
piled and supplied at once.
To the miner let me say that he stands where the
farmer does: the work of the world waits him. If 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
process and want only to remind his employees that
by who loves the country and its liberties
Let me suggest also that every who creates
cutvates garden helps and helps greatly to solve the
problem of the feeding of the nations and that
housewife who practises strict economy puts herself in
the ranks of those who serve the nation.
This the time for America to correct her ardon
able fault of wastefuness and extravaganza
Let every man and every woman assume the duty of
careful provident and expenditure public duty,
ever to be excused or forgiven for ignoring
In 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 before beg that all editors
and publishers everywhere will give prominent
publication and wide circulation possible to this
appeal venture to suggest. also, to all advertising
agencies that they would perhaps render very sub
santia and timely service to the country if they would
give it widespread repetition. and hope that clergy
will not think the theme of it unworthy or in
appropriate subject of comment and homily their
pulpts.
The supreme test of the nation has come We mu.t
WOODROW WILSON.