The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-04-20

matter.
| particularly appeal to the farm
ers of the South to plant abundant
food stuffs as well as cotton. They
can show their patriotism in no bet
ter or more convincing way than by
resisting the great temptation of the
present price of cotton and helping,
helping upon a great scale to feed the
nation and the peoples everywhere
who are fighting for their liberties
and for our own.
"The variety Of their crops will be
the visible measure of their compre-
hension of their national duty.
"The Government of the United
States and the governments of the
several States stand ready to coop
crate. They will do everything pos
sible to assist farmers in securing an
adequate supply of seed, an adequate
force of laborers when they are most
needed at harvest time and the means
of expediting shipments of fertiliz-
ers and farm machinery, as well as
of the crops themselves when harvest
ed.
"The course of trade shall be as
unhampered as it is possible to make
it, and there shall be no unwarranted
manipulation of the nations food sup
ply by those who handle it on its way
to the consumer. This is our oppor-
tunity to demonstrate the efficiency of
great democracy, and we shall not
fall short of it.
"FOregO Unusual Profits"
"This, let me say to the meiddle-
men of every sort, whether they are
handling our foodstuffs or raw mater
ials of manufacture, or the products
of our mills and factories: The eyes
of the country will be especially on
you.
"This is your opportunity for sig
nal service, efficient and disinterested.
The country expects you, as it expects
all others, to forego unusual profits,
to organize and expedite shipments
of supplies of every kind, but espec-
tally of food, with an eye to the SER
vice you are rendering and the spirit
of those who enlist in the ranks, for
their people, not for themselves. |
shall confidently expect you to de-
serve and win the confidence of peo-
pie of every sort and station.
"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 nations life and that upon
them rests the immense responsibility
of seeing to it that those arteries suf-
fer no obstruction of any kind, no in
efficiency or slackened power.
ITO the merchant let me suggest
the motto: "Small profits and quick
selling, and to the shipbuilder the
thought that the life of the war de-
ponds upon him.
"The food and the war supplies
must be carried across the seas no
matter how many ships are sent to
the bottom. The places of those that
go down must be supplied and sup
piled at once.
ITO 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
Home Gardens Can Help.
"The manufacturer does not need
to be told, hope, that the nation
looks to him to speed and perfect ev-
cry process; and / want all to re-
mind their employees that their SER
vices are indispensable and counted
on by every man who loves the coun-
try and its liberties.
LET me suggest, also, that every
one who creates or cultivates a gar
den helps, and helps greatly to solve
the problem of the feeding of the ma
tions; and that every housewife who
practices strict economy puts herself
in the ranks of those who serve the
nation.
"This is the first time for America
to correct her objectionable fault of
wastefulness and extravaganza. Let
every man and every woman assume
the duty of careful, provident use and
expenditure as a public dutu. as die
tate of patriotism which no one can
now expect ever to be excused or for
given 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 re-
minder, of the solemn duties of a
time such as the world has never seen
before, beg that all editors and pub
fishers everywhere will give as prom
inent publication and as wide circula-
tion as possible to this appeal.
81 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 repe-
tition. And | hope that clergymen
will not think the theme of it an I'M
worthy or inappropriate subject of
comment and homify from their pull
pits.
"The supreme test of the nation has
come. We must all speak, act and
serve togetherl
"WOODROW WILSON"
KILL FLIES AND SAVE LIVES