The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-04-20
AID OF ALL IS
ASKED BY WILSON
Success In War Depends on
Increased Output Of Food
and Materials.

WashiDgton.--Tn a personal appeal
addressed to his fellow countrymen,
President Wilson calls on every Amer
ican cltizen--man, woman and child,
TO join together to make the nation
unit for the preservation Of It's ideals
and for triumph OF democracy in the
war. The address in part follows:
MY fellow countrymen:
THE entrance OF our beloved coun-
try 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 considera.
ton and settlement that I hope you
will permit me TO address to you
few words of earnest counsel and ap-
peal with regard to them.
I'VE are rapidly putting our navy
upon 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 ad-
dressed ourselves. There is not
single selfish 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 security
OF the world.
Service Without Profit
TO do this great thing worthiIy and
successfully. we must devote our
selves 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:
I'VE must supply abundant food for
ourselves and for our armies and 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 sides We
shall be fighting.
We 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 abun-
iant 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
Tor whom the gallant fellow under
arms can no longer work, to help
clothe and equip the armies with
which we are cooperating in Europe
md to keep the looms and manufac-
ories there in raw materials
Must Increase Industries.
I'VE must supply coal to the fires
yoing in ships at sea and in the fur
laces of hundreds OF factories across
he sea; steel out of which to make
rms and ammunition, both here and
here; rails for wornout railways back
II the fighting fronts; locomotives
md rolling stocks to take the place
If those every day going to pieces
mules, horses, cattle for labor and for
ScINtCCs CNNA WAeAA
which the people of England and
france and Italy and Russia have usu-
lily supplied themselves but cannot
low afford the men, the materials or
he machinery to make.
1T is evident to every thinking man
hat our industries, in farms, in ship
ards, in the mines, in the factories,
must be made more prolific and more
fficient than ever and that they must
'e more economically managed and
etter adapted to the particular re-
uirements of our task than they have
een, and what want to say is that
he men and the women who devote
heir thought and their energy TO
hese things will be serving the coun-
ry and conducting the fight for peace
nd freedom just as truly and just as
ffectively as the men on the battle
ield or in the trenches.
Workers a Great Service Army.
THE industrial forces of the coun,
ry, men and women alike, will be a
reat national, q great International,
ervice army-a notable and honored
ost engaged in the service of the ma
on and the world, the efficient
-iends and saviors of free men every
here.
Thousands, nay. hundreds of thou
ands of men otherwise liable to mill
ary service will of right and of ne
essity be excused from that service
nd assigned to the fundamental, sus-
aiming work of the fields and fac
,ries and mines, and they will be as
luch a part of the great patriotic
,rces Of the nation as the men under
re.
Warns People Of Treason.
Washington.-All persons in the
nited States, citizens and aliens. are
armed in a proclamation issued by
resident Wilson that reasonable
is or attempts to shield those COM