The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-04-18
SPEAK, ACT and
SERVE TOGETHER
President Wilson Issues Appeal In
Which He Calls Upon Every
Man, Woman and Child.
SUPREME TEST OF NATION.


Appeals Especially to Farmers. Point.
Ing to the Supreme Necessity OF
Raising Big Crops. ,.
WASHINGTON. d. c.. April Is
In personal appeal at;ressed to-
night to his fellow countrymen. presi-
dent Wilson calls upon every Ameri'
can citizen-man. woman and child
to jon together to make the nation a
unit for the preservation OF its ideals
and for the triumph Of democracy IN
the world war;. = ~
"The supreme test Of the nation
has come, !" says tae address. I'VE must
all speak, act. and serve together
Putting the navy on wan footing
and raising a, great army are the sim
plest parts of the great. task ahead
the president declares, and he urges
all the people. with particular EN-
phasis ron his words to farmers, 20
concentrate their energies: practice
economy. prove Inselfshness and de-
monstrate efficiency, The address fol-
lows: ~, &.r e
/ III. Prociamation's Text.
my Fellow Countrymen: The en-
trance of our beloved country into the
grim Ind terrible war for democracy
and human rights which has shaken
the world creates SO many problems
of national life and action which call
for immediate consideration and settl-
ment that hope you will permit me
to address you a few words of earn.
est counsel and appeal with regard
to them. ,'.'. - '-'+
1--WE are rapidly putting our navy
upon an effective war basis and are
about to create and equip a great ar
my, but these are the simplest parts
of the great task to which we have
addressed, ourselves. There is not q
single selfish element, SO far as |
can see, in the cause we are fighting
for. We are fighting for what we be.
,lieve 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 SER
vice without regard to profit or mat
erial advantage and with an energy.
and siuteMiganGe that Will rise. st0at tha
level Of the enteapfise Itself. We
must realize 10 the full. how great
the task IL and how many things and
how many kinds of elements OF cap
iacitys and service and self sacrifice
1t involves. 500
Must Have Abundant, Food. e,
These. then, are the things that we
must do. ard do well. besides fighting
the things without which mere
fighting would be fruitless. z
I'VE must supply abundant food for
ourselves and for our armies and our
seamen, not only, but also for large
part of the nations with whom we
have now made common cause. in
whose support and by whose sides we
shall be fighting. ... ~
eve must supply ships by the hun
dreds of our shipyards to carry to
the other side of the sea. submarines
or no submarines, what will every
day be needed there. and abundant
material 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 people for
whom the gallant fellows under arms
can no. longer work to help clothe
and equip armies with which we are
cooperating in Europe and to keep the
looms and manufactures there In raw
coal to keep the Aires go.
ing In ships at sea. and in he'ifurnac-
es of hundreds of factories across the
sea. steel out of which to make arms
and ammunition.i both here and there;
rails for wornout railways back OF
the fighting frontss locomotives and
rolling stocks to take the place of
those every day going to pieces: hor
SOS, mules and cattle for labor and
for military service; everything with
which the people of England. France
Italy and Russia have usually supplied
themselves. but cannot now afford
the men, the materials or the machin-
cry to make. s g
Great Service Army.
1T is evident to every thinking
man that our industries, on farms, in
ship yards. in the mines. in the factor
les must be made more prolific and
more efficient than ever aud that they
must be more economically managed
and better adapted to the particular
of our task than they
have been; and what want to say4is
vote their thots and their energies
to these things will be serving their
country ana conducting the fight, for
peace and freedom just as truly and
just as effectively as the men on the
battlefield or in the trenches. The
industrial forces of the country, men
and women alike, will be a great ma
tional, a great International, service
army-a notable and honored host
engaged in sthe service of the nation
and the world, the efficient friends
and saviors OF free men everywhere
Thousands. nay. hundreds of thous-
ands of men otherwise liable to mill
tary service will, of right and neces-
sity be excused from more service and
assigned to the fundamental. sustain.
ing work of the fields and factories
and mines, and they will be as much
a part OF the great patriotic forces
of the nation as the men under fire.
A Word to the Farmers.
81 take the liberty, therefore, of ad.
dressing this word to the farmers of
the country and to all who work on
the farms:s The supreme need of our
own nation and of the nations with
which we are cooperating is an abun-