The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-04-27
The President Appeals to the Men, Women
and Children Of The United States


the trenches. The industrial
forces of the country, men and
women alike, will be a great in
ternatlonal, Service Army,-a no
table and honored host engaged in
the service of the nation and the
world, the efficient friends and
SaViorS of free men everywhere.
Thousands, nay, hundreds of
thousands, of men otherwise Ii
able to military service will Of
right and of necessity be excused
from that service and assigned
to the fundamental, sustaining
work of the fields and factories
and mines, and they will be as
much part OF the great patriotic
forces of the nation as the men
under fire.
| take here the liberty, there
fore, of addressing this word to
the farmers of the country and to
all who work on the farms: The
supreme need of our own nation
and OF the nations with which we
are cooperating is an abundance
of supplies, and especially of food
Stuffs. The Importance of an ad-
equate food supply, especially for
the present wear, is Superlative.
Without abundant food, alike for
the armies and the peoples now
at war, the whole great enter
prise upon which we have en-
barked Will break down and fail.
The worlds food reserves are
low. Not only during the present
emergency but for some time
after peace shall have come both
our own people and a large pro
portion OF the people of Europe
must rely upon the harveStS in
America. Upon the farmers of
this country, therefore, in large
measure, rests the fate of the
war and the fate of the nations.
May the nation not count upon
them to omit no step that will in
crease the production of their
land or that will bring about the
most efectual cooperation in the
sale and distribution of their pro-
duct The time is short. 1t is
of the most imperative import
anCe that everything possible be
done and done Immediately to
make sure of large harveSts. |
call upon young men and old
alike and upon the able-bodied
boys of the land to accept and
act upon this duty, to turn in
hosts to the farms and make GER
tain that no pains and no labor
is lacking in this great matter.
| particularly appeal to the
farmers of the South to plant
abundant food stuffS as we'll as
cotton. They can show their pa
triOtiSm in no better or more con
vinCin9 way than by resisting the
great tempetation of the present
price of cotton and helping, help
ing upon a great scale, to feed
the nation and the peoples every
where who are fighting for their
liberties and for our own. The
variety of their crops will be the
visible measure of their compre-
henSiOn of their national duty.
The Government of the United
States and the governments of the
several States stand ready to CO.
operate. They will do every
thing possible to assist farmers in
securing an adequite supply of
seed, an adequate force of labor
erS when they are most needed,
at harvest time, and the means of
eXpeditin9 shipments of fertiliz-
erS and farm machinery, as we'll
as of the crops themselves when
harvested. The course of trade
shall be as unhampered as it is
possible to make it and there
shall be no unwarranted mani
pulation of the nations food sup
ply by those who handle is on
its way to the consumer. This is