The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-04-20
VIII SON MAKES APPEAL
TO FELLOW COUNTP Y1llEN
Citizen Men, Women and Children to Join
Together Make Nation of Ideals ad Truh of
World WarEpciaAy Begs Farmers to Plant Food
stufG-Chance Nouo South Patriotism

washington, ApTf 1'--T e9iooAi|
Wilson tonight in an address to his
fellow cosntrymen called upon every
American citizen-man, woman ana
child-to join together to make the
nation a unit for the preservation OF
it's ideals and for triumph Of democ-
racy in the world war.
'"The supreme test of the nation has
come" says the address. I'VE must
all speak. act and serve together"
The president urges all the people
to concentrate their energies, prac-
tice economy, prove unselhshness and
demonstrate efficiency.
He appealed to the farmers with
emphasis on his words and partIcu-
larIv to the farmers of the South, tc
plant foodstuffs. The Southern farm
ers, he said, "can show their patriot
ism in no better or more convincing
way than by resisting the great temp
tation of the present price OF cotton
and helping to feed the nations andt
the peoples everywhere fighting for
their liberties and our own
The address follows:
"My Fellow Countrymen:
1.-The entrance of our own beloved
country into the grim and terrible
war for democracy and human rights
which has shaken the world creates
many problems of national life ane
action which call for immediate con-
sideration and settlement that l hope
you will permit me to address to you
a few words of earnest counsel ana
appeal with regard to them.
eve are rapidly putting our navy
upon an effective war footing and are
about to create and equip great
army but these are the simplest parts
for the great task to which we have
addressed ourselves. There is not
single selfish element, so far as l can
see. in the cause we are fighting for.
We are fighting 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
worthily and successfully we must de-
vote ourselves to the service without
regard 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 ana
elements of capacity and service and
self sarifce it involves.
These, then. are the things We.
must do and do we'll, besides fighting
the things without which mere
fighting would be fruitless:
Must Supply Food.
ssWe 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, III
whose support and by whose side we
shall be fighting.
1--WE must supply ships by the hun
dreds out of our ship yards to carry
to the other side of the sea, subma-
rines or no submarines, what Will
every day be needed there, and abund-
ant materials out of our fields ana
our mines and our factories with
which not only to clothe and equip
our own forces on land and sea but
also 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 fires going in ships at sea
and in the furnaces Of hundreds OF
factories across the sea; steel out OF
which to make armies and ammunl-
ton both here and there; rails for
worn out railways back of the fighting
fronts; locomotives and rolling stock
TO take the place of those every day
going to pieces; mules, horses, cattle,
for labor and for military service;
everything with which the people Of
England and France and Italy and
Russia have usually supplied them
selves but can not now afford the