The Butler weekly times., 1917-04-19

feAl0W 'JOuHlFyHcA' AAc SY
trance i,sli IL ! Of our beloved country; in in
to the grim and terrible war for
democracy and human rights
which has shaken the, world ere
ates 20 many. problems of nation
al life and action which call for
immediate consideration and set
tlement that I hope you will per.
NIT me to address to you few
words Of earnest counsel and ap-
peal with regard to them.
I'VE are rapidly putting our
navy upon an effective war foot
ing 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 fu-
ture peace and security of the
world.
ITO do this great thing worthi-
ly and successfully we must de-
vote ourselves to the service with
out regard to profit or material
advantage and with an energy
and intelligence 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 ele-
ments Of capacity and service and
self-sacrifice it involves.
"These then are the things we
must do and do we'll, besides the
fighting-the things without
which mere fighting would be
fruitless:
1--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 be fighting.
1--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 every day 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, hut 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 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
arms and ammunition both here
and there: rails for worn out rail
ways back of the fighting forces !;
locomotives and rolling stock to
take the place of those every day
going to pieces; mules, horses. cat
tie for labor and military service :;
everything with which the people
of England and France and Italy
and Russia have usually supplied
themselves but cannot now afford
the men, the materials or the ma
chinery to make.
cit is evident to every thinking
man that our industries, in farms,
in shipyards, in the mines, in the
factories, must be made more pro-
life and more efficient than ever
and that they must be more eco
nomically managed and better
adapted to the particular require
ments of our task than they have
been; and what I want to say is
that the men and the women who
devote their thought and their
energy to these things will be
serving the country and conduct
ing the fight for peace and free
dom just as truly and just as eff
fciently as the men on the battle
field or in the trenches.
''The industrial forces of the
country, men and women alike,
will be q great national, great
international service army-a not
able and honored host engaged in
the service of the Nation and the
world, the efficient friends and
saviours Of free men everywhere.
Thousands may, hundreds of
thousands of men otherwise IL
ah1a IN military service will of