St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-04-28
Not Necessary To Be On the
Firing Line To Be
of Service.
EVERY ONE HAS
HIS PART TO PLAY.
Every One Is Looked to to
Make the War
Success.
Nv Fel,ow Countrymen:

war for democracy and human rights
which has shaken the world creates
no many problems of national life
and action which calls for immediate
consideration and settlement that
hone YOU wlIl permit me to address
In Won q few words of earnest cOun-
eel and appeal with regard to Them
We are rapidly putting our navy
mon an effective war footing and arc
about to create and equip q great
army. but these are the simplest
narts of the great task to which we
have addressed ourselves. There Is
not . single selfish element, SO Tar
a I can see, i'm 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
ueace and security Of the world. TO
do this gerat thing worthily and sue
cessfully we must devote ourselves
to the service without regard to Proft
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 ca
uer,tv and service and self-sacrtfice,
It involves.
These, then, are the things we
must do, and do we'll, besides hight
ing-the things without which more
fighting would be fruitless:
We must supply abundant food 1or
ourselves and for our armies ana our
seamen not only, but also for 2 large
uart of the nations with whom we
have now made common cause, IN
whose support and by whose sides We
shall be fighting.
We must supply ships by the hun
dreds out Of our shipyards 10 carry
to the other side OF the sea. SUD-
marines or no submarines, what VIII
every day be needed there. ana
abundant materials out of our fields
and our mines and our factories Win
which not only to clothe and equip
our own forces on land and sea but
also to clothe and support our peo-
ple for whom the gallant fellows
under arms can no longer work, 10
helm 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 snips
at sea and in the furnace OF nun
dreds of factories across the sea:
steel ont of which to make arms and
ammunition both here and there' ra,ls
for worn-out railways back OF tne
fighting fronts; locomotives ana roll-
ing stock to take the place OF those
eyery day going to pieces; mules
horses. cattle for labor and for mill
tarv service; everything with when
the people of England and france
Italy and Russia have usuall' sup
nlied themselves but cannot now al
ford the men. the Materials Ut 'no
machinery to make.
It is evident to every thinking man
that our industries. on the farms, IN
the shipyarls, i'm the mincs, IN tne
factories. must he made more pronhc
and more efficient than ever an" ''a'
thev must be more cconOmlcal!S '"""'
aged and better adopted to the pssI'
.ticuIar requirements of our task IMAM
they have bcen; and what want 70
.e.v IL that the men and the women
Who devote their thought ana their
energy to these things will be sers-
inp the country and conducting the
fieht for pcace and freedom just rs
truly and just as effectively as tne e
men on the battlefield or IN 'ne
trenches. The industrial forces Oh
the country. men and women alike'
,rIl, he a great national, a great in
fernational. Service Army not
able and honored host engaged IN tne
service of the nation and the "oFlu:
the efficient friends and sasiofs ol
free men everywhere. Ihousanus'
nav. hundreds Of thousands, Oh men
otherwise label to military sersfce
will q, right and Of necessity be ex-
cused from that service ana asslsn-
I'd to the fundamental, sustalmlnt.
work of the fields and factories any.
mines, and they will be as mucn psI.
Of the great patriotic forces OF the
nation as the men under hre.
Itake the liberty, therefore, OF au.
dressing this word to the farmers %
the country and to all who WORK ON
the farms: The supreme need Oh
our own nation and Of the na!lohA
with which we are cooperating ls an
abundance Of supplies. and especia'l.
OF food stufvs. The importance Oh
an adequate food supply, especiany
for the present year, Is superia'aso'
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