The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1917-04-18
President Wilson Appeals to Nation
1--WE Must All Speak, Act and Serve Together"

and women alike. will be great national, a
great international service army-a notable and
honored host engaged in the service of the ma
tion and the world, the efficient friends and
iors of freemen everywhere. Thousands nay,
hundreds of thousands of men otherwise liable,
to military service will of necessity be excused
from that service and assigned to the funda-
mental, sustaining work of the fields and fac
tories and mines and they will be as much part
of the great patriotic forces of the nation as the
men under fire.
Makes Appeal TO Farmers
II take the liberty, therefore, of addressing
this word to the farmers of the country and to
all who work on the farms: The supreme need
of our nation and of the nations with which
cooperating is abundance of supplies, es-
pecaly of foodstuffs. The importance of an
adequate food supply. especially for the present
year. is superlative. Without abundant food.
alike for the army and the people now at war,
the whole great enterprise upon which we have
embarked will break and fail. The worlds food
reserves are low.
Must Rely on America
Not only during the present emergency, but
for some time after peace shall have come both
our own people and large proportion of the
people of Europe must rely upon the harvests
in America. Upon the farmers of this country,
therefore, in large measure rests the fate of
the war and tie fate of the nations May the
nation not count upon them to omit step that
will increase the production of their land that
will bring about the most efectual cooperation
in the sale and distribution of their food pro-
ducts The time is short. II is of the most
tremendous Importance that everything possible
be done and done Immediately to make sure of
large harvests call upon young men and old
alike and upon the able bodied boys of the
land to accept and act upon this duty-to turn
in hosts to the farms and make certain that no
eins and no labor is lacking in the great matter
Gals to tie South
Il particularly appeal to the farmers of the
south to send abundant foodstuffs as we'll as
cotton. They show their patriotism in no
better more convincing way than by resist
ing the great temptation of the present price of
cotton and help upon great scale to feed the
nation and the peoples everywhere who are
lighting for their Liberties and for our men. The
variety of their crops will be the visible meas
ure of their comprehension OF their national
duty
Government TO Cooperate
"The government of the United States and the
governments of the several States stand ready
to cooperate. They will do everything possible
10 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 expedting shipments of fertilizers and farm
machinery as we'll as of the crops themselves
wien harvested. The course of trade shall be
IS uni ampered it is possible to make it and
tlege shall be no unwarranted manipulation of
tie nations food supply by those who handle It
IN its way to the consumer This is oppor-
tanity to demonstrate the efficiency of the great
democracy and we shall not fall short of it.
Aiiddleman Watched
This let me say to the middemen of every