The St. Johns herald., 1917-05-10
FARMERS!
The President of the United States appeals to you and to the Men, Women, and
 Children on the farms

uC CIlGLaLlCC O4 ONL OWA OC- loved country into the grim and terrible war for democracy and human rights which has shaken the world creates so many prob lens of national life and action which calls for immediate consid- eration and settlement that 1 hope you will permit me to address to you few words of earnest coun- Sel 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 our selves. There is not a single sell ish element, so far as l can see, in the cause we are fighting for. We are fighting for what we be- lieve 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 suc- cessfully we must devote our selves to the service without re- gard to profit or material advan- tage and with an energy and in- telligence that will rise to the level of the enterprise itself. We must realize to the full how great the task is and how many things, how many kinds and elements of ca pacity and service and self-sacri- flee, It involves.
 These, then, are the things we must do, and do we'll, besides lighting, the things without which mere fighting would be frEitless:
 We must supply abundant food for ourselves and for our armies and eur seamen not only, but al- so for a large part of the nations with whom we have now made common cause, in whose support and by whose sides we shall be fighting.
 We must supply ships by the hundreds out of our shipyards to carry to the other side of the sea, submarines or no submarines, what will everyday 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 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 manu- factories there in raw material; 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 guns and ammunition both here and there; rails for worD-Out railways back of the fighting fronts; loco motives and rolling stock to take the place of those every day go- ing to pieces; mules. horses, cat tie for labor and military service; everything with which the peo- pie of England and France and Italy and Russia have usually SUD- piled themselves but cannot now afford the men, the materials, or the machinery to make.
 It is evident to every thinking man that our industries, on the farms, in the shipyards, in the mines, in the factories, must be made more prolific and more eff cient that ever and that they must be more economically managed and better adapted to the particu- lar requirements of our task than they have been; and what 1 want to say is that the men and the women who devote their thought and their energy to these things