The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-04-17
APPEALS TO ALL TO COME TO-
GETHER FOR THE DEFENSE
OF THE NATION
SPECIAL APPEAL MADE TO THE
FARMERS
Requests All to Plant Gardens and to
BE Careful in Expenditures-AII
Waste and Extravaganza to be
Avoided if Possible.

WASHINGTON-In personal ap-
peal addressed Sunday night to his
fellow countrymen President Wilson
calls upon every American citizen
man, woman and child-to join togeth-
er to make the nation a unit for the
preservation of it's ideals and for tri-
umph of democracy in the world war.
"The supreme test of the nation has
come" says the address. eve must
all speak, act and serve together"
Putting the navy on a 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 empha-
sis on his words TO the farmers, to
concentrate their energies, practice
economy. prove unselfishncss and to
demonstrate efficiency.
President Wilson opened with a
brief presentation of the causes which
led the United States to enter the
great war after which he made a spe-
cial appeal 20 those engaged in differ
ent industries. in part this appear
reads:
"It is evident to every thinking man
that our Industries, in farms, in ship
yards, in the mines, in the factories,
must be made more prolific and more
efficient than every and that they
must be more economically managed
and better adapted to the particular
requirements of our task than they
have been; and what l want to say
is that the men and the women who
devote their thought and their energy
to these things viii be serving the
country and conducting the fight for
peace and freedom just'as truly and
| just as effectively as the men on the
/ battlefield or in the trenches.
"Ihe industrial forces OF the coun-
/ try, men and women alike, will be a
i great national, a great International
service army-a notable and honored
/ host engaged in the service of the ma
ton and the world, the efficient
friend and saviOrs of free men every
I where. Thousands, nay, hundreds Of
thousands of men otherwise liable
to military service will Of right and
Of necessity be excused from that SER
vice and assigned TO the fundamental,
sustaining work Of the fields and fac
tories and mines. and they will be as
much part Of the great patriotic fore
es of the nation as the men under fire.
"I take the liberty, therefore, Of adj
dressing this word to the farmers of
] iHE AOUulA1s anu " etAA WIN WOAh Oh
the farms. The supreme need of our
own nation and of the nations with
which we are cooperating is an album
p dance of supplies, and especially OF
f0odstuffs The importance of an ade-
Quate food supply, especially for the
present year, is superlative
d without abundant food, alike fol
4 the armies and the peoples now a
war the whole great enternrise upOI
which we have embarked viii breal
down and fail The worlds food re
serves are low. Not only during th'
n present emergency but for some tim
q after peace shall have come both on
s. own people and a large proportion o
L. the people of Europe must rely upol
- the harvests in America.
"Upon the farmers of this country
therefore, in large measure, rests tn
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