Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-04-20
WILSON APPEALS
FOR UNITY OF ALL
Says Supreme Test Of Nation
Has Come.
FIGHTING FOR MANKIND

I'VE Must Speak and Act Together"
Says President Wilson in Personal
Appeal.
In a personal appeal addressed
to his fellow-countrymen, President
wilson calls upon ovcgy Americln
citizen-mGn, W MAJ ana IL -
to join together to make the ma
.-O4 {. G-.., .ui ~ 4-eseI'|I-oh
CT its ideals and lor triumph Of de-
mocracy in the world war.
The supreme test OF the nation has
ccme," says the address. I'VE must
all speak, act and serve together"
The address follows:
My Feilow-Countrymen: =
The entrance of our own beloved
country into the grim and terrible war
for democracy and human r.ghts
which has shaken the world, creates so
many problems OF national llte and ac-
ZION which call for immediate consld-
Grafton and settlement that | hope You
will permit me to address to you
few words of earnest counsel and ap-
peal with regard to them.
Fight for Rights of Mankind.
We are rapidly putting our navy up
on an effective war footing anu are
about to create and equip a great ar
my, but these are the slmp.est parts
OF the great task to wAlch we lave
addressed ourselves. There is not a
single selfish element, so far as
can see, in the cause we are hShtlng
Tor. We are figlli1g for what we BE-
lieve and wish to be the rights OF man
kind and for the future peace and Sc
curity of the world. To do this great
thing wQrthily and successfully, we
ice without regard to profit or ma
terial advantage and with an enc gy
and into ligence that will rise to III
level of the enterprise itself. We mu I
realize to the iull how great the ia
is and how many things. how many
kinds and elements CT capacity ana
service and self-sacrifice it lnvo. yes.
These, then, are the things we must
do and do well, besides fighting--the
things without which moe nghLihS
would be fruitless:
We must supply abundant food, not
only for ourselves and rCr our arm e5
and our Seamen, but also for a ltga
part of the nations with whom we now
have made common cause, in WLOse
support and by whose sides we shall
be fighting.
Must Supply Ships by the Hundreds.
We must supply ships by the 2ul-
dreds out of our shipyards TO, carry TO
the other side of the sea, submarines
or no submarines, what every day Will
be needed there and abundant mater
ais OFT 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 ana
support our people for whom the. gal
liant fellows under arms can. no long
er work; to help clotne and equ the
armies with whicn we are cO-opSrlt-
ing in Europe, and to keep the looms
and manufactures t. ere IN law m :,
terial coal to keep the fires going IN
ships at sea and ia the furnaces CT
hundreds of factories across the sea;
steel out of which to make arms and
ammunition both here and there;
rails for worn-out railways back OF
the fighting fronts; locomotives and
rolling stock to take the place CT 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 and
Italy and Russia usually have supplied
themselves, but cannot now afford the
men, the materials or the machinery
to make.
that our industry and on the farms,
in the shipyards, in the mines, in me
factories, must be made more prolific
and more efficient than ever and a.
they must be more economically man.
aged and better adapted to the p r
ticular requirements Of cur task tuan
they have been; and what | want t.
say is that the men and the W me
who devote their thought and their
energy to these things will be serV-
ing the country and conducting tie
fight for peace and freed IN just as
truly and just as effectively as tnt
men on the battlefield or in trench
cs. The industrial forces # the cJun
try, men and women alike, vii! be {;
great national, great iIte nationa
service army-a notable and h1I o.e
host engaged in the servi e 0. he ia
ton and the world. the efficient frlel s
and saviors of free mel eve yWIers. |
Thousands, nay hundreds Ct III u
tary service will of rigIt and o neceS- |
sity be excused from that service an
assigned to the fundamental 2u2tl
ing work of the fielis ana fact lie
and mines, and they will be as mu h |
part of the great patriotic fOrc-s L. tee
nation as the men under fi@e.
Must Eiave Food or Enterprise Fails.
r>take the liberty, therefore, o. ad
dressing this word to the Ia merS OF
the country and to all who wy4k on
the farms: The supreme need Cf cur
own nation and Of tie La i rs with
which we are cooperating, is an abul- |
dance OF supplies, and especially Of
quate food supply, especially for the
abundant food. alike for the al es
and the peoples now at war, the Woe
great enterprise npon which We have
embarked will break down and fail.
The worlds food reserves are low.
Not only during the present ema. gem
cy, but for some time after peace slall
have come, bOtl cur own people and
a large proportion of the people CT
Europe must rely upon the harv~ SIS n
America.
Upon the farmers CT this country,
therefore, in large measure, rests the
fate of the war and tie fate # he
nations. May the nati1n not cunt
upon them to omit no step that w
increase the production Of t.eif lard
or that will bring about the. m s;
effectual co-opeya at on in the sa md
of their products? Tle
time is short. 1t is OF the e. t2st
importance that everything
possible be done, and done lmmed.-
ately, to make sure Of large harve5 S.
| cali upon young men and old al ke
and upon the able-bCdied bCys OF the
ont