Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-17

paign for more food crops today by
President Wilson's plea for unity of aC-
tion in furthering Americas success
in the world war
The president appealed to all the peO-
pie to join i'm making the nation a unit
for the preservation of its ideals and for
the triumphs of democracy. but he laid
emphasis on his words urging the grow
ers to concentrate their energies on the
planting of food so that the United
States might fuiriIl it's task of feeding
the armies and peoples who are fighting
Germany.
To the southern farmer the president
appealed earnestly that the high price of
cotton be forgotten for the time and
that abundant food crops also be
planted.
THE southern farmer can show his
patriotism in no better or more convinc-
ing way" he said, than by helping,
upon "A great scale. TO feed the nation
and the peoples everywhere fighting for
their liberties and our own. The va
riety of their crops will be the visible
measure Of their comprehension of their
national duty"
without abundant food. alike for
the armies and the peoples at war"
the president said, 1.-The whole great en-
will fail. Upon the farmers of the coun-
try. therefore. in large measure rests
the fate OF the war and the fate of
the nations"
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS
The address follows:
My Fellow Countrymen: The en-
trance OF our own beloved country into
the grim and terrible war for democra-
cy and human rights which has shaken
the world creates so many problems of
national life and action which call for
immediate consideration and settlement
that / nope you will permit me to adj
dress to you a few words of earnest
counsel 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 for the
great task to which we have addressed
ourselves. There is not a single selfish
element. so far as I 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 devote ourselves
to the service without 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 elements of capacity
and service and self-sacri1ce ii in
wolves.
OUR DUTIES.
These, then, are the things we must
do and do WELL besides fghting-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 a large
part of the nations with whom we
have now made common cause, in
whose support and by whose side we
shall be fighting.
I'VE must supply ships by the hum
dreds out of our shipyards to carry
to the other side of the sea, subma-
rines or no submarines what will every
day be needed there. and abundant ma
terials out of our fields and our mines
TO clothe and equi our own forces on
land and sea, but also to clothe and
and our factories with which not only
support our people for whom the gall
liant 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
manufactures 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; steer 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 every day going to
pieces. mules, horses, cattle, for labor
and for military service: everything with
which the people of England and France
and Italy and Russia have usually sup
piled themselves but cannot now afford
the men, the materials or the machinery
to make.
PROLIFIC INDUSTRIES.
at is evident to every thinking man
that our industries, on the farms, in
the ship yards. in the mines, in the fac
tories, must be made more prolific and
more efficient than ever and that they
must be more economically managed
and better adapted to the particular
requirements of our task than they
have been; and what / want to say is
that the men and the women who de-
vote 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 the men on the battle
ll6lu OF III the lTelltneS. he luuuSlTldl
forces of the country, men and women
alike. will be a great army--a notable
and honored host engaged in the service
of the nation and the world, the
efficient friends and saviors of free
men everywhere. Thousands, nay, hun
dreds of thousands of men otherwise
liable 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 fac
tories and mines, and they will be as
much part of the great patriotic forces
of the nation as the men under fire.
II take the liberty, therefore, of adj
dressing the 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 abun-
dance of supplies, and especially of
foodStuffs The iuODOrtance of an ada-