The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-04-19
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fighting would be fruitless.

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our seamen. not only but also for a
large part of the nations with whom
we have now made common cause,
in whose support and by whose aid
we shall be fighting.
we must supply ships by the
hundreds out OF our ship yards to
carry to the other side of the sea,
submarines or no submarines, what
will every day be needed there, and
abundant materials out of our fields
and our mines and our factories with
which. not only to clothe and equip
our own forces on land and sea. but
also to clothe and support our people
for whom the gallant fellows under
arms can no longer work, to help
clothe and equip the armies with
which we are cooperating in Europe
and to keep the looms and manu-
factories there in raw materials;
Goals to keep the fires going in ships
at sea and in the furnaces of hun
dreds of factories across the sea;
steel out of which to make arms
and ammunition both here and
there; rails for worn out railways
back of the fighting front; locomo-
tives and roll stock to take the place
of those every day going to pieces;
mules. horses. cattle. for lobor and
for military service; everything with
which the people of England and
France and Italy and Russia have
usually supplied themselves but can
not now afford the men, the ma
terials or the machinery to make.
1T Is evident to every thinking
man that our industries, on the
farms, in the shipyards, in the
mines, in the factories, must be
made more prolific and more efici.
ent than ever and that they must be
more economically managed and
better adapted to the particular re-
ouirements of our task than they
have been; and what | want to say
is that the men and the women who
devote their thought and their ener-
gy to these things will 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.
The industrial forces of the country,
men and women alike, will be a
great national, a great international
service army-a notable and honor
ed host engaged in the service OF
the nation and the world. the eff.
ficient friends and saviors of free
men everywhere. Thousands. nay,
hundreds of thousands of men other.
wise liable to military service of
right and of necessity be excused
from that service, and assigned to
the fundamental sustaining work OF
the fields and factories and mines,
and they will be as much part OF
the great patriotic forces of the ma.
ton as the men under fire.
Il take the liberty, therefore, of
addressing the word to the farmers
of the country and to all who work
on the farms: the supreme needs OF
our own nation and of the nations
with which we are cooperating is an
abundance of supplies and especially
of foodstuffs. The Importance Of
an adequate food supply, especially
for the present year. is superlative.
Without abundant food, alike for
armies and the people now at war,
the whole great enterprise upon
which we have embarked will break
down and fail. The worlds food
reserves are low. Not only during
the present emergency but for some
time after peace shall have come
both our own people and a large
proportion of the people Of Europe
must rely upon haryests in America.