Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-24

MY fellow countTymen:
The entrance Of our beloved coun
try into the grim and terrible war for
democracy and human rights VII! III
has shaken the world creates so MANY
problems OF national life and action
which call for immediate cOnsihcra-
ton and settlement that ] hope HoT
will permit me TO address to yAu Il
few words Of earnest counsel AMI al
peal with regard to them.
We are rapidly putting our navy
upcn 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.
Fighting For Right
And Future Peace
There is not single selfish eIe-
ment, so far as | can see, in the cause
we are fighting for. We are flghtine
for what we believe and wish to De
the rights of mankind and for the iu-
ture peace and security OF the world.
ITO do this great thing worthiiy
and successfully We must devote our,
selves to the service without regard
to prCfit or material advantage and
with an energy and intelligence that
viii rise to the level of the enterprise
Itself. We must realize to the full
how great the task is and how many
things, bow many kinds and elements
of capacity and service and self.saeri-
flee it involves. z
These, then, are the things we
must do and do well. besides fighting
the things without which mere fight
ing would be fr-uitless. We must sup
ply abundant food for ourselves and
our armies and our seamen not only,
but also for a large part OF the ma
tions with whom we have now made
common cause. in whose support and
By whose Sides we shall be fighting.
Must supply Ourselves and Allies @
With Materials and Ships to 's:@ a
Carry Them ,....,. =. .."
I'VE must supply ships by the hun
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
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, Tor
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 manufactures
there In raw materials; 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 rail.
ways back of the fighting fronts; To-
comotiyes and rolling stock to take
the place OF those every day going
to pieces; mules, horses, cattle for la
Dor and for military service; every.
thing With which the people of Eng.
land and France and Italy and Russia
have usually supplied themselves, but
cannot no wafford the men, the mate
rails or the machinery to make.
1T is evident to every thinking
man that our industries, in farms, In
shipyards, in the mines, in the facto-
ries, must be made more prolific and
more efficient than ever and that they
must be more economically managed
and better adapted to the particular
of our task than they
have been; and what I want to say
is that the men and the women who
devote their thought and their energy
to these things will be serving the
country and conducting the fight for
peace and freedom just as truly and
just as effectively as the men on the