Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-04-19
PRESIDENT APPEALS
TO LOYAL CITIZENS
AMERICANS URGED TO STAND TO-
GETHER FOR COMMON GOOD
IN WAR WITH GERMANY.
Special Appeal Made to Farmers and
Industrial Forces of the Country
to Give Freely of Service for
Benefit of Country.

w dSullS ION. III Il personal appear
addressed to his fellow countrymen.
President Wilson, on April -, called
upon every American citizen to join
together to make the nation a unit
for the preservation of its ideals and
for triumph of democracy in the world
war.
Putting the navy on 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 en-
phasis on his words to the farmers to
concentrate their energies, practice
economy, prove unselfishness and
demonstrate efficiency.
The president declared that 1T is
evident to every thinking man that
our industries, in farms, in shipyards.
in the mines. in the factories, must
be made more prolific and more eff
cient 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 l want to say is that
the men and the women who devote
their thought and their energy to
these things will be serving the coun-
try and conducting the fight for peace
and freedom just as truly and just as
effectively as the men on the battle
field or in the trenches. The indus
trial forces of the country, men and
women alike, will be a great national,
great international service army
notable and honorable host engaged
in the service of the nation and the
world, the efficient friends and saviors
of free men everywhere. Thousands,
nay, hundreds OF thousands OF men
otherwise liable to military service
Will, of right and of necessity, be ex-
cused 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 nation as
the men under fire.
Il take the liberty, therefore, of
addressing this word to the farmers
of the country and to all who work on
the farms: The supreme need OF our
own nation and OF the nations with
which we are cooperating is an abun-
dance of supplies, and especially OF
foodstuffs. The importance of an ade-
quate food supply, especially for the
present year, is superlative- Without
abundant food, alike for the armies
and the peoples 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 emergen-
ox- htrf for of 81.
have come, both our own. people and
large proportion of the people OF
Europe must rely upon the harvests
in America. Upon the farmers of this
country, therefore, in large measure
rests the fate of the war and 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 food products?
The time is short. 1t is of the most
imperative importance that everything
possible be done and done immediate
ly to make sure of large harvests. l
call upon young men and old alike and
upon the able-bodied boys of the land
to accept and act upon this duty-to
turn in hosts to the farms and make
certain that no pains and no labor is
lacking in this great matter.
Il particularly appeal to the farm
ers of the south to plant abundant
foodstuffs as well as cotton. They can
show their patriotism in no better or
more convincing way than by resist
ing the great temptation of the pres
ent price of cotton and helping, help
ing upon great scale, to feed the
nation and the peoples everywhere
who are fighting for their liberties and
for our own. The variety of their
crops will be the visible measure of
their comprehension of their national
duty.
ITO the men who run the railways
Of the country, whether they be man
ayers or operative employees, let me
say that the railways are the arteries
Of the nations life and that upon them
rests the immense responsibility of
seeing to it that those arteries suffer
no obstruction of any kind, no inef-
icency or slackened power. To the
merchant let me suggest the motto:
Small profits and quick service, and
to the shipbuilder the thought that the
life of the war depends upon him. The
food and the war supplies must be
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many ships are sent to the bottom.
The places of those that go down must
be supplied and supplied at once. To
the miner let me say that he stands
where the farmer does; the work of
the world waits on him. If he slack
ems or fails. armies and statesmen are
helpless. He also is enlisted in the
great service army"
Turks Intern U. S. Gunboat.
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