Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1917-04-21
ISSUES ADDRESS ON THE
H|FTY-SECONO ami.
VERSARY Of LIN.
COINS DEATH

Last Sunday night Pesident Wilson
issued the following address to the
people of the United States:
My fellow countrymen The en-
trance of our beloved country into the
grim and terrible war for democracy
and human rights which has shaken
the world creates so many problems OF
national life and action which call for
immediate consideration and settle
ment that | hope you will permit me
TO address to you few words of earn
est counsel and appeal with regard to
them.
I'VE are rapidly putting oil navy on
an effective war footing and are about
to create and equip a great army but
these are the simplest parts OF the
great task to which we have addessed
ourselves There is not a single self
ish element. so far as | can see, in the
cause we are fighting for. We are
fighting for what we believe and wish
to be the rights of mankind and for
the future peace and welfare OF the
world To do this great thing wor-
thily and successfully we must devote
ourselves to the service without re
gard to profit or material advantage
and wit han energy and Intelligence
that will rise to the level OF the en-
terprise itself. We must realize to the
full how great the task is, and how
many things. how many kinds and Gle
mentes OF capacity and service and
self sacrifice il involves.
These, then. are the things we
must do nd do well besides fghtinl
the things without which mere
fighting would be fruitless: We must
supply abundant fruit for ourselves
and for our armies and our seamen
and also for large part of the nation
with whom we have now made com
mon 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 carr.
to the other side of the sea. subma.
rines or no submarines, what will
every day be needed there and abun
dant materials out of our fields anC
our mines and our factories with which
not only to cl);h and equip our owl
forces on land and sta, but also to
clothe and support our people for
whom the gallant fellows under arms
can no longer work. to help clothc
and equip the armies with which We
are cooperating in Europe, and to
keep the looms and manufacturers
there i'll raw materials; coal to keep
the fires burning in ships at sea and il
the furnaces of hundreds of factories
across the sea; steel out OF which tC
make arms, and ammunition, both her,
and there; rails for worn out railroads
back of the fighting fronts; locomo
tives and rolling stock 10 take the
places OF those every day going to
pieces: mules, horses, cattle for labor
and for military service; everything
with which the people of England
France, Italy. and Russia have usually
supplied themselves, but cannot now
afford the men, the material, or the
machinery to make.
III 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 ever, and that they must
be more economically managed and
better adapted to the particular re
quirements of our task than they
have been; and what ! want to say is
that the men and women who devote
their thoughts and their energy to
these things will be serving the coun-
try and conducting the fight for peace
and freedom lust as truly and just as
effectively as the men on the battle
field or in the trenches.
"The industrial forces of the coun.
try, men and women alike, will be a
great national, great international
service army--a noted and honored
host engaged in the service of the ma
ton, and the world, the efficient
friends and saviors of freemen every
where. Thousands. nay. hundreds OF
thousands of men, otherwise liable to
military service will OF necessity be
excused from that service and assign.
ed to the fundamental, sustaining
work Of the fields and factories and
mines and they will be as much part