Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-05-11

button of their products? The time is
short. 1t is of the most imperative
Importance that everything possible be
done and done Immediately to make
sure of large harvests. l call upon
young men and old alike and upon
the able-bodied boys of the land to &C
cept and act upon this duty,-to turn
in hosts to the farms and make certain
that no pains and no labor is lacking
in this great matter.
l particularly appeal to the farmers
OF the South to plant abundant food
stufts as well as cotton. They can
show their patriotism in no better or
more convincing way than by resisting
the great temptation of the present
price of cotton and helping, helping
upon great scale, to feed the nation.
and the peoples everywhere who are
fighting for their liberties and for our
own. The variety of their crops will
be the visible measure of their COM
prension of their national duty.
The Government of the United
States and the governments Of the
several States stand ready to cooperate.
They will do everything possible to
assist farmers. in securing an adequate
supply of seed, an adequate force of
laborers when they are most needed,
at harvest time, and the means of ex-
pediting shipment of fertilizers and
farm machinery, as we'll as of the
crops themselves when harvested. The
course Of trade shall be as unhampered
as it is possible to make it and there
shall be no unwarranted manipulation
of the nations food supply by those
who handle it on its way to the con-
sumer. This is our opportunity to
demonstrate the efficiency of a great
Democracy and we shall not fall short
of It'll
This let me say to the middlemen
of every sort, whether they are hand
ling our food stuffs or our raw materi-
ais Of manufacture or the products of
our mills and factories: The eyes of
the country will be especially upon
you. This is your opportunity for
signal service; efficient and disinterest-
ed. The country expects you, as it
expects all others, to forego unusual
profits, to organize and expedite ship
ments Of supplies of every kind, but
especially Of food, with an eye to the
service you are rendering and in the
spirit of those who enlist in the ranks,
for their people, not for themselves.
I~hall confidently expect you to de-
serve and win the confidence of people
OF every sort and station.
To the men who run the railways of
the country, whether they be managers
or operative employees, let me say that
the railways are the arteries of the ma
tons life and that upon them rest the
immense responsibility Of seeing to it
that those arteries suffer no obstruc-
ton of any kind, no insuficiency or
slackened power. To the merchant
let me suggest the motto, Small profits
and quick service" and to the ship
builder the thought that the life of
the war depends upon him. The food
and the war supplies must be carried
across the seas no matter how many
ships are sent to the bottom. The
places Of those that go down must be
supplied and supplied at once. To the
miner let me say that he stands where
the farmer does, the work of the world
waits on him. If he slakens or fails,
armies and statesmen are helpless. He
also is enlisted in the great Service
Army. The manufacturer does not
need to be told, hope, that the nation
looks to him to speed and perfect every
process, and | want only to remind
his employees that their service is alb
solutely indispensable and is counted
on by every man who loves his coun-
try and its liberties.
Let me suggest also that everyone
who creates or cultivates a garden
helps, and helps greatly to solve the
problem of feeding the nations, and
that every housewife who practices
strict economy puts herself in the
ranks Of those who serve the nation.
This is the time for America to correct
her objectionable fault of wastefulness
and extravaganza. Let every man
and every woman assume the duty of
careful, provident use and expenditure
as public duty, as dictate of pa
triotism which no one can now expect,
ever to be excused or forgiven for
ignoring.
In the hope that this statement of
the needs of the nation and of the
world in this hour of supreme crisis
may stimulate those to whom it comes
and remind all who need reminder of
the solemn duties of a time such as
the world has never seen before, beg
that all editors and publishers every
where will give as prominent publica-
ton and as wide circulation as possible
to this appeal. venture to suggest
also to all ADVERTISING AGENCIES that