Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-05-02

tor the ruture peace ana security OF
the world. To do this great thing wor-
thiiy 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 eIe-
ments Of capacity and service and SELF
sacrifice, it involves.
These, then, are the things we must
do, and do we'll, besides ffghting,-the
things without which mere fighting
would be fruitless:
We must supply abundant food for
ourselves and for our armies and our
seamen not only, but also for 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 hum
dreds out of our shipyards to carry to
the other side Of the sea, submarines
or no submarines, what will every day
be needed there, and abundant mater
ials out Of our fields and our mines
and our factories with which not only
to cIothe and equip our own forces on
land and sea but also to cIothe and
support our people for whom the GAL
liant fellows under arms can no longer
work, to help clothe and equip the
armies with which we are co-operat-
ing in Europe, and to keep the looms
and manufactures there in raw mater
ial; 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
ammunition both here and there; rails
for WORKOUT railways back Of the
fighting fronts; locomotives and roll
ing stock to take the place Of those
every day going to pieces; mules
horses, cattle for labor and for mill
tary service; everything with which
the people Of England and France anc
Italy and Russia have usually sup
piled themselves but cannot now at
ford the men, the materials, or the ma
chinery to make.
It is evident to every thinking mar
that our industries, on the farms, IL
the shipyards, in the mines, in thu
factories, must be made more prolih,
| anu H1OVS CSuSlSuI IIlan SvOT anu SI1d
they must be more economically man
aged and better adapted to the partic
ular requirements Of our task thai
they have been; and what want t
say is that the men and the wome,
who devote their thought and thei
energy to these things will be servin.
the country and conducting the figh
for peace and freedom just as trul.
and just as effectively as the men Of
the battlefield or in the trenches. tn
industrial forces Of the country, mel
and women alike, will be great ma
tionaI, great international, Servic
Army,-a notable and honored hos
engaged in the service Of the natio
and the world, the efficient friends am
saviors of free men everywhere. Thou
sands, nay, hundreds Of thousands, o
men otherwise liable to military ser>
ice will Of right and Of necessity b
excused from that service and assiqr
ed to the fundamental, sustaining wor
Of the fields and factories and mine.
and they will be as much part Of tn
great patriotic forces Of the nation a
the men under fire.
take the liberty, therefore, Of &C
dressing this word to the farmers q
the country and to all who work 0
the farms: The supreme need Of on
own nation and of the nations wit
which we are cooperating is an abunt
ance Of supplies, and especially 9
food stuffs. The importance of a
adequate food supply, especially ia
the present year, is superIative. witt
out abundant food, alike for the al
mics and the Peoples now at war, tn