The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1917-04-21

Is SHORT AND GIGANTIC STRUG-
GLE UPON WHICH DEMOCRACY
Is EMBARKED MAY COLLAPSE
UNLESS UNITED STATES TAKES
UPON ITSELF TASK OF FEEDING
1 MEN CALLED TO ARMS AND Ma
TIONs NOW ENGAGED IN WAR
AGAINST PRETENsIONS OF DES-
POTIC GERMANY, SHIPS MUST BE
SEPT TO EUROPE REGARDLESS
OF SUBMARINES; MIDDLEMEN
MUST NQr OvERCHARGE; TRANS
PORTATION LINES MUST IMPROVE
SERVICE, EVERY MAN MUST DO
HIS BIT TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS.
Washington April 15.-In n personal
appeal addressed tonight to his fell
low countrymen. President Wilson calls
every American citizen-man. woman,
and child-to join together to make the
nation a unit for the preservation of it's
ideals and for triumph of democracy
in the world war.
The supreme test of the nation has
come" FJys the address I'VE must
all speak, serve and act together"
Putting the navy on war footing
and raising great army are the sim
plest parts of the great task ahead,
the president declares, and he urges
all the people with particular empha-
sis on his words to the farmers, to
concentrate their energies. practice
economy, prove unselfishness and
demonstrate efficiency. The address
follows:
Text of Address
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 consideration
and settlement that hope you will per-
nit me to address to you few words
of earnest counsel and appeal with re-
gard to them.
I'VE are rapidly putting our navy
upon am 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 sell
fish element. so far as l can see, in
: the cause we are fighting for. We are
lighting for what we believe and wish
to be the rights of mankind and for
the future peace and security OF the
world To do this great thing worthi-
ly and successfully we must devote
, ourselves TO the service without re-
gard to profit or material advantage
and with an energy and intelligence
that will rise to the level of the enter
prise 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
Sself- sacrifice ita involves.
what Must BE Done
These, then. are the things we
must do and do well. besides lighting
the things without which mere
- hghting 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 lighting.
1--WE must supply ships by the hun
dreds out of our shipyards to carry
10 the other side of the sea. subma-
rines or no submarines. what will ev-
cry day be needed there and abund-
ana 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
for whom the gallant fellows under
arms can no longer work. TO help
clothe and equip the armies with
which we are cooperating In Europe.
and TO keep the looms and manufac-
tories there In raw materials; coal to
keep the hres going in ships at sea
saad IN the furnaces OF 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 nghting
fronts; locomotives and rolling stock
10 take the place OF those every day
going 10 pieces; mules hrpes. cattle.
for labor and for military service; oy-
erything with which the people OF
England and France and Italy and
Russia have usually supplied them
= selves but cannot now afford the men,
the materials or the machinery 70
make.
E@eleney Required
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