Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-19
BELIEVES EVERY
One SHOULD AID
President Personally Appeals to
MI Americans.
DEMOCRACY MUST TRIUMPH
Pfacing Of Army and Navy on War Ba-
Simple Task Compared With
Food Production.

Washington. - President Woodrow
Wilson has issued an appeal, address.
ed to every American, calling for the
greatest measure of service in pro.
: tiucing foodstuffs and supplies to car.
ny on the war.
To farmers especially the president
appeals that every farm may produce
che greatest possible amount of food.
"Ehe appeal is as follows:
my fellow countrymen: The en-
trance of u own beloved country
INTO the grim and terrible war for
democracy and human rights which
eaas shaken the world, creates so many
Eroblems of national life and action
which call for immediate considera-
'tfion and settlement that l hope you
will permit me to address to you a few
words Of earnest counsel and appeal
with a regard to them.
I'VE are rapidly putting our navy
On an effective war footing and are
ABOUT to create and equip a great
army, but these are the simplest
soarts of the great task to which we
nave addressed ourselves. There is
mot a single selfish element, so far as
For.
I'VE are fighting for what we be-
Ileve to be the rights of mankind and
For the future peace and security of
che world. To do this great thing
Worth1ly and successfully we must de-
vote ourselves to the service without
regard to profit or material advantage
and with an energy and intelligence
that will rise to the level Of the en-
terprise itself.
1--WE must realize to the full how
great the task is and how many
things. how many kinds and elements
Of capacity n service and ~self-sac-
rifice it involves.
"These, then, are the things we
must do and do well, besides fighting
the things without which mere fight
Eng would be frultleSS.
food Supply Great Necessity.
1--WE must not only supply abundant.
Good for ourselves and for our armies
and our seamen, but also for a large
part of the nations with whom we
have now made common cause. in
whose support and by whose sides we
shall be fighting.
I'VE must supply ships by the hun
dreds out OF our shipyards to carry to
the other side of the sea, submarines
sH no submarines, what will every day
the needed there, and abundant mate
t%ials out of our fields and our mines
aane our factories with which not only
70 clothe and equip our own forces on
3and and sea. but also to clothe and
support Cur people for whom the gal
liant fellows under arms can no longer
svork.
I'VE must help clothe and equip the
sarmles with which we are co-operat-
ing in Europe, and to keep the looms
end manufactures there in raw mate
's'Sals, supply coal to keep the fires 60
ing in ships at sea and in the furnaces
OF hundT eds of factories across the
sea; stet. out OF which to make arms
sand amnsunition both here and there;
ra1s for Wornout railways back of the
Fighting fronts; everything which the
people of England and France and
ITALY and Russia have usually supplied
themselves, but cannot now afford the
snen, the materials or the machinery
TO make.
ut is evident to every thinking mar
'that on industries, in farms, in ship
yards, In the mines, in the factories,
anust be made more prolific and more
efficient than ever, and that they
fnust be more economically managed
and better adapted to the particular
requirements of our task than they
have been.
What I want to say is, the men and
the women who devote their thought
san their energy to those things will
fse serving the country and conduct.
xng the fight for peace and freedom
~Just as truly and just as effectively
AS the men ON the battlefield or in the
trenches.
Part of Great Patriotic Army.
THE industrial forces of the coun-
Try, men and women, alike, will be a
great national service army-a notable
and honored host engaged in the serv-
ice of the nation and the world, the
efficient friends and saviors OF free
tmen everywhere.
thousands, nay. hundreds of thou
sands, of men otherwise liable to mill
tary service will of right and of ne
Acessity be excused from that service
an6 assigned to the fundamental, sus-
tanning work of the fields and facto-
rles and mines, and they will be as
much part of the great patriotic
forces OF the nation as the men under
fire.
~ take the liberty, therefore, of ad-
sirsssing this work to the farmers of
the country and to all who work on