The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-04-19
BIG IMPETUS TO
FOOD CAMPAIGN
President Wilson's Appeal for uniiy
of Action viii Bear Fruit. Amen'
can Success in War Needs II.


impetus was given to the nation
wide campaign for more food crops to-
day by President Wilson's appeal Tor
unity of action in furthering Ameri-
can success in the world war.
The supreme test of the nation has
come" says the address. I'VE must
all speak, act, and serve together.
Putting the navy or war footing
and raising a great army are the
simplest parts of the great task ahead
the president declares, and he urges
all the people, with particular empha-
sis upon his words to the farmers, 10
concentrate their energies, practice
economy, prove unselfishness ana
demonstrate efficiency.
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 SO
many problems of national life and
action which call for immediate con-
sideration and settlement that hope
you will permit me to address to you
few words of earnest counse! 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 a.
single selfish element, so far as | 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 advant-
age, and with an energy and inteil-
gence that will rise to the level OF the
enterprise itself. We must realize to
the full how great the task is and now
, many things, how many kinds and
elements of capacity and self-sacriiice
it involves.
! "These, then, are the things we
must do and do well, besides fighting
r the things without which mere
| fighting would be fruitless:
r ave must supply abundant food fol-
ourselves and for our armies and our
} seamen, but also for large part OF
e the nations with whom we have now
e made common cause, in whose support
Y and nv whose sides we shall be fight
ing
r "We must supply ships by the hun
D dreds out of our shipyards to carry tf
the other side of the sea, submarine.
1 or no submarines, what will every day
S be needed there and abundant mater
D ials out of our fields and our mines
: and our factories with which not only
$ to clothe and equip our own forces OF
P land and sea but also to clothe ant
j support our people for whom the gal
x liant fellows under arms can no longei
n work, to help clothe and equip tn
armies with which we are co-operat
e ing in Europe, and to keep the loom
I and manufactures there in raw ma
e terial; coal to keep the fires going II
k ships at sea and in the furnaces o
d hundreds of factories across the sea
+ steel out of which to make arms an'
d ammunition both here and there; rail
g for worn out railways back of tn
d fighting fronts; locomotives and roll
s ing stock to take the place of thos
!; every day going to pieces; mules
e horses. cattle for labor and for mill
y tary service; everything with whic
y the people Of England and France an
" Italy and Russia have usually supple
" themselves, but cannot now afford tn
d men. the materials or the machiner
" to make.
n ut is evident to every thinking ma
Y that our industries on the farms,
!, the shipyards, in the mines, in the fac
" tories, must be made more proliilc an
10 more efficient than ever and that the
le must be more economically manage
II and better adapted to the partcula
d, requirements of our task than the
IF have been, and what | want TO say
that the men and the women who dc
j vote their thought and their energy I
: these things would be serving tn
q country and conducting the fight TO
N peace and freedom just as truly an
st lust as effectively as the men on tn
battlefield or in the trenches. The II
dustrial forces Of the country, me
and women alike, will be a great na
'e stional, a great international army
ID notable and hcnored host engaged J
re the service Of the nation and tn
n world. the efficient friends and savior
4 of free men everywhere. Thousand
)" l,J,oJe of .bnusapds Of me