Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-16

Washington, April 15--ln a personal appeal addressed tonight to his fellow -countrymen, President wilson calls upon every American cittzen-man. woman and cllild-to join together to make the nation a unit for the preser- vation of it's ideals and for triumph 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 a 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 empha- sis upon his words to the farmers. to concentrate their energies, practice economy, prove unselfishness and dem- onstrate efficiency.
 President Wilson's Address
 ssThe 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 con- sideration and settlement that hope you will permit me to address to you a few words of earnest counsel and appeal with regard to them
 Putting Navy On War Footing
 we are reapidly putting our navy are about to create and equip great army, but these are the simplest parts of our great task to which we have ad- dressed ourselves. There is not single selfish element, so far as l can see, in the cause we are fighting for. We are fighting for what we believe aE<d wish to be the rights Of mankind and for future peace and security or the world. To do this great thing worthily and successfully we must de- vote ourselves to the service without regard to profit or material advantage and with an energy and intelligence .-s-. ., lexya of he an terprise itself. We must realize to the full how great the task is and how many things. how many kinds and el- ements of capacity and service and seIf-sacrifice it involves.
 ssThese, then, are the things we must do and do well, besides fghting-the things without which mere fighting would be fruitless:
 Must Supply Abundant Food.
 we must supply abundant food for ourselves and for our armies and our seamen not only. but also for large have now made common cause, in whose support and by whose sides we shall be fighting.
 Must Provide Ships.
 eve must supply ships by the hun dreds out Of our ship yards to carry to the other side of the sea, subna rines or no submarines, what will every day be needed there. and abund- ant materials out of our fields and our mines and our factories with which to clothe and equip our own forces on land and sea but also to clothe and support our people for whom the gal lant fellows under arms can no long CT work, to help clothe and equip the armies with which we are cooperating in Europe and to keep the looms and manufactures there in raw material; coal to keep the fires going in ships at sea and in the furnaces of hundreds of factories across the sea; steel out of which to make arms and ammuni- tion both here and there; rails for wornout railways 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; ev- erything with which the people of England and Farnce and Italy and Russia have usually supplied them selves but cannot now afford the men, the materials or the machinery to make.
 Efficiency in Industries.
 s'It is evident to every thinking man that our industries, on the farms. in the shipyards, in the mines, in the fac tories, must be made more prolific and more efficient than ever and that they must be more economically managed and better adapted to the particular requirements of our task than they have been; and what I want to say is that the men and the women who devote their thought and their energy 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 in- dustrial forces of the country, men and women alike. will be a great na- tfonaI a great international service army-a notable and honored host en- rared in the service of the nation and inc world, the efficient friends and saviors of of free men everywhere. men otherwise liable to military ser vice wIu by right 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 mon under Are
 T taarn 1ha 1fberty. therefore. of ad-' 1rsnnl19 thta word to the 1Axners ef