The Ozark spectator., 1917-04-28
Text of Address.
The address follows:
 My fellow countrymen:


 The entrance of our own beloved country into the grim and terrible war for democracy and human rights which has shaken the world creates so many problems of national life and action which call for immediate consideration and settlement that l hope you will permit me to address to you a few words of earnest counsel and appeal with regard to them.
 "We are rapidly putting our navy upon 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.
 There is not single selfish ele- ment, so far as I can see, in the cause we are fighting for We are fighting for what we believe and wish to he the rights of mankind and for the future peace and security of the world.
 Devote Selves to Service.
 'To do this great thing worthily and successfully we must devote ourselves to the service without regard to profit pr material advantage and with an energy and intelligence that will rise to the level of the enterprise itself.
 These, then. are the things we must do and do well. besides fighting inc things without which mere fight ing would be fruitless;
 We must supply abundant food for ourselves and for our armies and our seamen not only. but also for large part of the nations with whom we have now made common cause, in whose support and by whose Sides we shall he fighting.
 Must Supply Ships.
 "We must supply ships by the hun lrcds out of our shipyards to carry 10 the other side of the sea, subma- rines or no submarines, what will every lay be needed there, and abundant natcrials out of our fields and our mines and our factories with which not only to clothc and equip our own .orces on land and sea but also to dothc and support our people for ,hom the gallant fellows under arms Hn no longer work, to help clothc and sQuip the armies with which we are cooperating in Europe, and to keep he looms and manufactures there in -aw materials; coat to keep thc fires .oing in ships at sea and in the fur llccS across the Sea; steel eut of which to make arms and ammunition 10th here and there; rails for worn iut.. railroads back of the tightlng rronts locomotives and rolling stock Q take the place of those every day going to pieces; mules, horses, cattle Tor labor and for military service; :; avcrythng with which the people of |. england and France and Italy and GuSSia have usually supplied them- elves. hut cannot now afford the mon, he materials or the machinery to make.
 Need Greater Efficiency.
 "It is evident to every thinking man hat our industries, in farms. in ship oardS. in the mines, in the factories, must he made more prolific and more efficient than ever, and that they must Ac more economically managed and better adapted to inc particular re quircmcntS of our task than they have bccn: and vhpt want 70 Say is that he men and the women who devote heir thought and their energy to these thnSs will hc serving the country and anductIns inc fight for pence aHd free iom just as truly and just as oGrctive- ,y us the men on the battlefield or m he trenches
 Appeal to Farmers.
 "rhouSuuds nay. hundreds of thou lnds of mon otherwise liable tu mili- tnry service will of right and of neces- ty be excused from that service and assiened to the Fundamental sustain ing work of the fields and factories, and mines. and they will be as much nart of the great patriotic forces of ne nation as the men under fire
 '! take the liberty. therefore, of addressing this word to the farmers # the country and to all who work en ibc farms: The srgreme need of