The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-04-20
PRESIDENT APPEALS
TO LOYAL CITIZENS
AMERICANS URGED TO STAND TO-
GETHER FOR COMMON GOOD
IN WAR WITH GERMANY.
Special Appeal Made to Farmers and
Industrial Forces of the Country
to Give Freely of Service for
Benefit OF Country.

Washington.-In a personal appeal
addressed to his fellow countrymen,
President Wilson, on April II. called
upon every American citizen to join
together to make the nation a unit
for the preservation OF its ideals and
for triumph of democracy in the world
war
Putting the navy on a 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 en-
phasis on his words to the farm to
concentrate their energies. practice
economy, prove unsefshness and
demonstrate efficiency.
The president declared that ut Is
evident to every thinking man that
our industries, in farms, in shipyards.
in the mines. in the factories, must
be made more prolific and more eff
cient than ever and that they must
be more economically managed and
better. adapted TO the particular re-
quirements of our task than they have
been; and what l want to say is that
the men and the women who devote
their thought and their energy to
( these things will be serving the coun-
try and conducting the fight for peace
and freedom just as truly and just as
effectively as the men on the battle
field or in the trenches. The indus
trial forces of the country, men and
women alike, will be a great national,
a great international service army
notable and honorable 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 liable to military service
. will. Of right and of necessity, be ex-
cused froms 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
5 the men under fire.
Il take the liberty, therefore, OF
addressing this word to the farmers
S of the country and to all who work Oh
the farms: The supreme need OF our
own nation and of the nations with
: which we are cooperating is an abun-
dance of supplies, and especially OF
foodstuffs. The importance of an ade-
quate food supply, especially for the
present year, is superlative. Without
abundant food, alike for the armies
and the peoples now at war, the whole
great enterprise upon which we have
embarked will break down and fail
The worlds food reserves are low
u Not only during the present emergen-
T. cy but for some time after peace shall
have come, both our own people and
i large proportion Of the people oil
. Europe must rely upon the harvests
in America. Upon the farmers of this
country. therefore, in large measure
S rests the fate of the war and the fate
of the nations. May the nation moi
, count upon them to omit no step that
: will increase the production of theiI
, land or that will bring about the most
effectual cooperation in the sale an6
J. distribution of their food products
The time is short. 1t is of the mos
imperative importance that everything
= possible be done and done immediate
y ly to make sure of large harvests.
call upon young men and old alike ant
) upon the able-bodied boys of the lant
$ to accept and act upon this duty-tt
turn in hosts to the farms and make
certain that no pains and no labor Il
d lacking in this great matter.
;. Il particularly appeal to the farm
ers of the south to plant abundan
S foodstuffs as well as cotton. They cal
:, show their patriotism in no better O
more convincing way than by resist
:, ing the great temptation of the pres
ent price of cotton and helping, help
ing upon a great scale, to feed TIL,
II nation and the peoples everywher'
r. who are fighting for their liberties ana
for our own. The variety OF thei
crops will he the visible measure 0
their comprehension of their nationa
duty.
u ITO the men who run the railway
d of the country, whether they be man
ayers or operative employees, let M
- say that the railways are the arterie
II of the nations life and that upon then
>, rests the immense responsibility o
" seeing to it that those arteries suffe
t no obstruction of any kind, no inei
- fcency or slackened power. To tn
merchant let me suggest the motto
Small profits and quick service an
to the shipbuilder the thought that tn
life of the war depends upon him. Tn
food and the war supplies must b
)f carried across the seas no matter ho'
"a many ships are sent to the bottom
The places of those that go down mus
Te be supplied and supplied at once. T
Is the miner let me say that he stand
;, where the farmer does; the work {
u the world waits on him. If he slacl
II ems or fails, armies and statesmen ar
helpless. He also is enlisted in tt
great service army"