The Detroit times., 1917-04-16

things how many kinds and elements
o. capacity and service and self sac
rince % involves.
These. then. are the things we must
DO. and DO we'll besides hEhting-
would be fruitlsss
wsm must supply abundant food. not
only for ourselves and for our armies
and our seamen. but for q large part
Of the nations with whom We have
now made common cause. in whose
support aud By whose sides We shall
be nEhting.
We must supply ships ~ the hun :
dreds TO carry 10 the other side or
the sea. submarines or no submarines.
abundant materials out OF our helds
and our mines and our faetorisa not
only 20 cloths and equip our own
clothes and support our people Tor
whom the gallant fellows under arms
IAN no longer work. 20 help cloths
and equip the armies with which We
are cooperating IN Europe. and 20
keep the looms and manufacturers
there In raw material
We must supply coal 90 kssp the
fires going In the ships at see and In
the furnaces OF hundreds OF factories
across the sea. steel out Of which 70
make arms and AMMUNITION. both
here and there. rails for worn-out
railways back OF those going 20
pieces mules. horses. cattle for labor
and for military service everything
With which the people OF England
and France and Italy ana Russia
have usually supplied themselves
but cannot now anord the men. the
materials or the machinery 90 make
Industries Are Parumswzt.
~ 10 evident 10 every Thinking man
that our ndgstries on ne farms pa
tsetoriss. must B. made NOR. pro
inc and more efficient than ever and
| that they must be more economically
| managed and better adapted 20 the
particular requirements OF our task
/ than they have been.
| The men and the women who de-
| vot. their thought end their energy
/ 20 these things will be serving the
country and eondue!ing the nsht 10,
| Just as effectively as the men on the
| battlshelda or In the trenches
! The Industrial forces Of the eoun
/ try. men and women alike. will b
Al services srrny-s hotabls nd honor.
ed host engaged IN the services o. tn
nation and the world. the enioisn
friends and saviors OF free msr
/ dreds OF thousands Of men otherwise
/ liable 20 military ssrvice, will o.
| rieht and Of necessity be excused
| from that service and assigned 20 III
| asids and factories and mines am
/ they will be az much part OF m
| great patriotic forces Of the natioI
as the men under IRE.
| take the liberty. therefore. o
Addressing this word 20 the farmsrl
| ~ the country and 20 all who wor'
/ on tho farms
! The suprens need Of our own ma
| ton and OF the nations with whici
| We are operating - an abundanc'
! - suppiiss. and especially OF 1000
IRE iunportAnos Of an adequate
| food supply. especially for the pres
| ent year. is superlative. Withou
| abundant food alike for the aTmiel
| and the peoples now az war, IN.
| whole great enterprises upon Whlci
| We have embarked will break dowI
and fail
worId Mast Have FoeS.
| Tho worries food reserves are low
| Not only during the present emer
rency. but for some time after psae'
/ shall have come. both our own ps0pl'
| and = large proportion % the people
OF Europe must rely upon the bar
vests IN America Upon the farmer
i % this country, therefore. IN larg'
| measure rests the fate % the va
| and the fate 81 the nations hal
/ the nation not count upon them q
! omit no step that will inerease ~
| production % their land or that VII
| bring about the sale ana distrthutioS
| % their rroductaf
| Ths time 10 short I, 10 Of me mos
! luanaFaffvs lmNnewtAnca that evarY,