The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-19
REGARDLESS OF AGE, ALL ARE
URGED TO HELP SHOW EFFl-
ClENCY OF GREAT DEMOc-
RAcY SUCH AS OURS.
SUPREME TEST HAS COME;
ALI. MUST ACT TOGETHER
The Food Supply Is Paramount and
Everyone Helps Who cuItivates
a Garden"-HouseWives Are
Asked to Use Economy
Duty Is Outlined.

Asked to Use Economy
Duty Is Outlined.
Washington, April 16. President
Wilson has issued the following per.
sonal appeal to the people of the Unit
ed States:
Text Of Address.
my Fellow Conference.-The en-
trance of our own beloved country in
to the grim, terrible wal for democ-
racy and human rights which has shak-
en- the world, creates so many prob
lens Of national life and action which
call for immediate consideration and
settlement that l hope you will permit
me to address to you a few words of
earnest counsel and appeal with regard
TO them.
ITO do this great thing worthily and
successfully we must devote ourselves
to the service without regard to pro-
tit OF material advantage and with an
energy and intelligence that will rise
to the level of the enterprise itself.
We must realize to the full how great
the task is and how many things. how
many kinds and elements Of capacity
and service and ~self-sacriice it in
wolves.
Armament a Simple Task.
I'VE are rapidly putting our navy
on 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
addressed ourselves. There is not a
single selfish element. so far as l 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.
These then are the things we must
do and do we'll, besides fighting-the
things without which mere fighting
would be fruitless:
We u not only supply abun-
dant food for ourselves and for our
armies and our seamen but also for a
large part of the nations with whom
we have now made COMMON cause. in
"uoSC uppOl II ~ "llOSc sues z
shall be fighting.
I'VE must supply ships by the hun
dreds out of our s%hipyards to carry to
the other side OF the sea. submarines
or NJ submarines. what will every day
be needed there and abundant ma
terials out of our fields and our mines
and our factories with which not only
to clothe and equip our WI forces on
land and sea but also to clothe and
support Jul people for whom the gal.
liant fellows under arms can no longer
work. to help clothe and equip the
armies with which we are cooperating
in Europe to keep the looms ard man.
to keep the fires going on ships at sea
and in the furnaces in hundreds OF
factories across the sea: steel out OF
which to make arms and ammunition
both here and there: rails for worn
out railways back OF the fighting
fronts: locomotives and rolling stock
to take the place of those every da!
going to pieces: mules. horses. cattle
for labor and for military service,
everything with which the people O
England and France and Italy ant
Russia have usually supplied them
selves but cannot now afford the men
the materials or the machinery t,
make.
More Efficiency Needed.
1T is evident to every thinking mai
chat our industries. in farms. in SNIP
yards. in the mines, in the factories
must be made more prolific and mo
efficient than ever and that they mus
be more economically managed an
better adapted to the particular re
Quirements OF our task than they hav
been; and what | want to say is tina
the men and the ome who devot
their thought and their energy I
these things will be serving the coul
try and conducting the fight for peac
and freedom just as truly and just a
effectively as the men on the battl,
field OF in the trenches. The indu.
trial forces OF the country, men an
women alike. will be a great uationa
q great international reserve army
q notable and honored host engaged i
the service of the nation and tn
world, the efficient friends and savior
of free men everywhere. Thousand
nay, hundreds of thousands Of me
otherwise liable to military servic
will of right and of necessity be e.
cused from that service and assigne
to the fundamental. sustaining work
the fields and factories and mine
and they will be as much part of II
great patriotic forces of the nation
the men under fire.
Addresses the Farmers.
Il take the liberty therefore of a
dressing this word to the farmers
the country and to all who work g
the farms. The supreme need of o,
own nation and of the nations wi,
which we are cooperating is an abu,
dance Of supplies and especially
Ioodstufs. The importance Of an ad