The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1917-04-20
President APPEALS
TO people TO WORK
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EXTRA EFFORTS IN MANY
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= The address follows
Nf4y Fellow Countrymen:
! IsThe entrance OF our own beloved
,f5untry into tho grim and terrible war
Tor democracy and human rights which
has shaken tho world creates 80 many
problems OF national life and action
which call FOR immediate considera-
alton and settlement that ! hope you
win permit me To address 10 you few
words OF earnest counsel and appeal
with regard 70 them
I'VE are rapidly putting our navy
upon an effective war footing and are
hbout 10 create and equip a great army.
but thcae are the simplest parts OF the
great task 10 which we have addressed
ourselves. There is not a single self
iah element SO far as can see In tho
cause we are fighting for. We are
fighting for whnt we believe and wish
20 be rights OF mankind and for the fu-
ttire peace and security OF the world.
To do this. great thing worthily and
successfully wo must devote ourselves
70 the service without regard to profit
or material advantage and with an en-
orgy and intelligence that VIII rise 70
tho level OF the enterprise itself We
must realize TO the fun how great the
task Is and how many things, how
many kinds OF elements Of capacity and
service and self sacrifice Il involves.
"Theae. then. are the things We must
do, and do welL besides fighting the
things without which mDre fighting
would be fruitlessi
What ls Needed.
I'VE must supply abundant food FOR
ourselves and for our armies and our
ac0fnen, not only but also FOR large
part of the nations with whom we have
now made common oRpsein whose sup
port and by whose sides we shall be
fighting.
.'Sye must supply ships By the hun
dreds out Of our shipynrdN to carry to
the other side Of the sea, submarines
or no submarines what win every day
DO needed there and abundant materials
out OF our fields and our mines and
our factories with which not only to
equip our own forces on land and sen,
but also 70 clothc and support our peos
plo for whom the galnni fellows I'M
der arms can no longer work, 70 help
clothe and equip the armies with which
we are cooperating Ia Europe. add TO
keep the looms and manufactures there
IN raw materials; coal to keep the fires
going In ships at sea and In tho fnr-
naccs OF hundreds OF factories across
the sea: mules, horses, cattle for lab .
and for military service; everything
with which the people OF England, aud
France. and Italy and Rug5ia have usu-
ally supplied themselves, but cannot
now afford the men. the materials or
tho machinery 10 make.
Addresses Farmers.
Il take the liberty. therefore. OF ad-
dressing this word TO the farmers OF
the country and all who work on the
farms:
'.Thc sup. ome need OF our own ma
ton and the nations with which @e are
cooperating Is an abundance of sup
plies, and especially of foodstufts The
Importance OF al adequate fopu sap
ply. especially for the present year. IS
auporlative, without abundant food
alike for the armies and the peoples
now at war, the whole great enterprise
upon which We have embarked VIII
break down and fall The worlds fooi
reserves are low. Not only daring the
present emergency but for some time
after peace shall come both tur own
people and large proportion OF the
people OF Europe must rely upon the
harvests In America. Upon the farm
ers OF this country, therefore in a large
measure rests the fate OF the war anl
the fate OF the nations. May the nation
not count upon them to omit no step
that will increase the production OF
their land or that will bring about the
most effectual cooperation in the sale
and distribution OF their products? The
time - short II is Of the utmost in,-
perative Importance that everything
possible be done and be done immed.
lately 10 make sure of large haryests.
] call upon young men and old alike
and upon the able-bodied boys of the
land TO accept and act upon this duty
Ito turn In hosts TO the farms and
make certain that no pains and no Ia
Dor is lacking In this great matter.
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