The Pulaskian., 1917-04-27
Wilson Issues Personal Appeal to
 the Nation.
ASKS THE FARMERS TO AID
Chief Executive Tells Them That They Hold the Fate of Nations and Asks Every Effort to Supply Food Says the Supreme Test
 Has Arrived.

his fellow countrymen President Will son calls upon every American citizen man, woman and child-to join to- gether to make the nation 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. We must all speak, act and serve together"
 Putting the navy on war footing and raising great army are the sim plest parts of the great task ahead, the president declares, and he urges all the people, with particular emphasis on bis words to the farmers, to concen- trate their energies, practice economy, prove unselfishness and demonstrate efficiency.
 Text of Address.
 The address follows:
 "My fellow countrymen:
 '"The entrance of our own 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 settlement that 1 hope you will permit me to address to you a few words of earnest counsel and appeal with regard to them.
 "We are rapidly putting our navy upon an effective war footing and are about to create and equip great army, but these are the simplest parts of the great task to which we have addressed ourselves.
 "There is not a single selfish ele- ment, 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 security of the world.
 Devote Selves to Service.
 '"To do this great thing worthily and successfully we must devote 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 enterprise itself.
 "These, then, are the things we must do and do well, besides fighting the things without which mere fight ing would be fruitless:
 "We must supply abundant food for ourselves and for our armies and oar Eeamen not only, but also for a large sart of the nations with whom we have now made common cause, in whose support and by whose sides we shall be fighting.
 Must Supply Ships.
 eve must supply ships by the hun dreds out of our shipyards to carry to the other side of the sea, subma- rines 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 manufactories there in raw materials; coal to keep the fires going in ships at sea and in the fur naces across the sea steel out of which to make arms and ammunition both here and there; rails for worm out railroads back of the fighting fronts; locomotives and rolling stock to take the place of those every day going to pieces; mules, horses, cattle for labor and for military service; everything with which the people of England and France and Italy and Russia have usually supplied them selves, but cannot now afford the men. the materials or the machinery to make.
 Need Greater Efficiency.
 ''It is evident to every thinking man that our industries, in farms, in ship pards. 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 'AAV AhSh anu Lhc WOlnHH WnO devote their thought and their energy to these things will be serving the country and conducting the fight for peace and free dom just as truly and just as effective ly as the men on the battlefield or in the trenches.
 Appeal to Farmers.
 thousands, nay, hundreds of thou- sands of men otherwise liable to mili- tary service, will of right and of neces- sity be excused from that service and assigned to the fundamental. sustain ing work of the fields and factories and mines. and they will be as mncb part or the great patriotic forces of the nation as the men under fire
 T take the liberty, therefore of addressing this word to the farmers or the country and to all who work on the farms: The supreme need of