Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-04-18
I'D Wilson Appeals to All Glasses OF
Ayttizens to Put Shoulders to Wheel
Sto Create and Conserve Food Sup
Lpltes for the Country.
SUPREME TEST OF NATION,
f Thc supreme test Of tho nation
mas come," says the address, "wc
must all speak, act and serve to-
sgether."

tAnas cOme," says the address, tive
L Emust all speak, act and serve to-
GfSgether."
April 15.-In an ap-
2al to all citizens of the country, is
led tonight, President Wilson
ressed the opportunity for the far
sRers OF the South to show their pa
$rtotism, which he said can be done
VA no better way than by resisting
me great temptation Of the present
Nprtce Of cotton, and helping upon a
Efeat scale to feed the nation and the
Neoples everywhere who are fighting
|2{Qcl their own liberties and our own"
iIhe Presidents appeal urges all
SAmerican citizens to join together to
make the nation unit for the pres
NYation of its ideals and for the tri-
iNmph Of democracy in the world
sHar.
|S Text of Address.
NV Fellow w-Countrymen:
The entrance of our own beloved
|&nnntry into the grim and terrible
pfkr for democracy and human rights
Nhtch has shaken the world, creates
|Ebeg many problems Of national life
@nd action which call for immediate
|Ebnsideration and settlement that I
|M0pe you will permit me to address
no you few words Of earnest coun-
gel and appeal with regard to them.
1--WE are rapidly putting our navy
|,Apon an effective war footing and are
|ShbDut to create and equip a great
ARMY, but these are the simplest
iparts of the great task to which we
nave addressed ourselves. There Is
mot a single selfish element, so far as
III IsGan see in the cause we are fighting
|ss are a gShttng for ,whlat wla we be-
aiId he rights n OF
Eea eRce aud
lsSsscurity of the world. ".To do this
great thing worthily and successfully
we must devote ourselves to the SER
vice without regard to profit or ma
terial advantage and with an energy
and intelligence that will rise to the
level Of the enterprise itself. We
must realize to the fullest how great
the task is and how many things,
how many kinds and elements Of ca
pacity and service and sclf-sacrifice
it involves.
These, then, are the things we
must do, and do well, besides fight
ing-the things without which mere
fighting would be fruitless:
|. We must supply abundant food for
ourselves and for our armies and
our seamen, not only, but also for a
large part of the nations with whom
We have now made common cause, in
|'Whoso support and by whose sides we
shah be fighting.
We must supply ships by the hun
ont nf h nv S>1s IN
to the other side Of the sea--subma-
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, but
also to clothe and support our peo-
pie for whom the gallant fellows un-
der 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 manufac-
tories 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 arms and ammunition
both here and there; rails for worn
out railways back of the fighting
fronts; locomotives and rolling stock
to take the place Of those everyday
going to pieces; mules. horses, cat
tie, for labor and for military service;
everything with which the people Of
England and France and Italy and
Russia have usually supplied them
selves. but cannot now afford the
men, the materials or the machinery
to make.
Efficiency and Economy.
1t 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 efficient than ever, and that
they must be more economically man
aged and better adapted to the par
ticular requirements of our task than
they have been; and what want to
say is that the men and the women
who devote their thoughts and their
energy to these things will be serving
the country and conducting the fight
for peace and freedom just rs truly
and just as effectively as the man on
the battlefield or in the trenches.
The Industrial forces OF the country
men and women alike--will be
great national. great international,
service army, notable and honest
host engaged in the service Of the
nation and the world, the efficient
friends and saviors Of free men every
where. Thousands--nay, hundreds
of thousands-of men otherwise liza
bic to military service will, OF right
and Of necessity, be excused from
that service and assigned to the fun
damental, sustaining work OF the
fields and factories and mines, and
they Will be as much q part Of the