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Show WILSON MARES ANAPPEAL Supreme Test Has Come Middlemen Are WatcSied. WASHINGTON, April 15. In a personal per-sonal appeal addressed tonight to hiB fellow countrymen, President Wilson calls upon ovory American citizen man, woman and child to Join together togeth-er to make tho nation a unit for tho preservation of its ideals and for triumph of democracy In the world war. "Tho supreme test ot the nation has come," says the address. "We must all speak, act and serve together." Putting the navy on a war footing and raising a great army aro the simplest parts of tho great task ahead, the President declares, and ho urges all tho people with particular emphasis em-phasis on his words to the farmers to concentrate their energies, practice economy, prove unselfishness and demonstrate efficiency. The address follows: "My fellow countrymen: "The entrance of our beloved country coun-try Into (he grim and terrible war for democracy and human rights which haB shaken tho world creates so many problems of national life and action which call for immediate consideration con-sideration and settlement that I hope you will permit me to address to you a few words of earnest counsel and appeal with regard to them. Navy on War Footing. "We aro rapidly putting our navy upon an effective war footing and are about to creato and equip a great army, but these aro the simplest parts of the great task to which wo have addressed ourselves. Thero Is not a single selfish element, so far as I can see, in the cause we are fighting for. "Wo nre fighting for what wo believe and wish to be tho rights of mankind and for tho future peace and security of tho world. To do this great thing worthll' and successfully we must devote de-vote ourselves to tho service without regard to profit or material advantage and with an energy and intelligence that will rise to tho level of tho enterprise enter-prise itself. Wo 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-sacrifice it involves. "Wo must supply abundant food for ourselves and for our armies and our seamen not only but also for a large part of tho nations with whom we have now mado common cause, in whose support and by whose sides we shall be fighting. Must Supply Ships. "Wo must supply ships by the hundreds hun-dreds out 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 materials mater-ials out of our fields and our mines and our factories with which not only 1,0 clothe and equip our own forces on land and sea, but also to clothe and support our people for whom the gallant gal-lant fellows under arms can no longer work, to help clothe and equip the armies with which we aro co-operating in Europe, and to keep the looms and manufactories there in raw materials; ma-terials; 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 roll ing stocks to take the place of thosu every day going to pieces; mules, horses, cattje for labor arid for military mili-tary service; everything with which tho people of England and France and Italy and Russia have usually supplied themselves but cannot now afford the men, tho materials or tho machinery "It is evident to every thinking man that our industries, in farms, in shipyards, ship-yards, in the mines, in tho factories, must be mado moro prolific and more efficient than ever and that they must bo more economically managed and better adapted to the particular requirements re-quirements of our task than they have been; and what I want to say is that tho men and the women who devote their thought and their energy to these things will be serving tho country coun-try and conducting the fight for peace and freedom just as truly and Just as effectively as the men on tho battle field or in tho trenches. The industrial indus-trial forces of tho country, men and women allko, will be a great national, a great International service army a notable and honored host engaged in tho sorvloe of tho nation and the world, tho efficient friends and saviors sav-iors of freo men everywhere. Thousands, Thous-ands, nay, hundreds of thousands of men otherwise liablo to military service ser-vice will, of right and of necessity, bo excused from that servico and assigned as-signed to the fundamnetal, sustaining work of the fields and factories and mines, and they will be as much part of tho great patriotic forces ot the nation as tho men under fire. "This lot mo say to the middlemen of ovory sort, whether they are handling han-dling our foodstuffs or our raw materials mate-rials of manufacture or tho products of our mills and factories: The eyes of the country will bo especially upon you. This is your opportunity for signal sig-nal servico, efficient and disinterested. Tho country expects you, as it expects all others, to forego unusual profits, to organize and expodlto shipments of supplies of overy kind, but especially of food, with an oyo to the Bervico you are rendering and in tho spirit of thoso who onllst in the ranks for their people, peo-ple, not for themsolves. I shall confidently confi-dently expect you to deservo and win the confldenco of people of overy sort and station. "To tho men who run the railways of tho country, whother thoy bo managers man-agers or operative employes, lot me say that tho railways are tho arteries of the nation's lifo and that upon them rests tho immense responsibility of seeing to it that thoso arteries suffer no obstruction ot any kind, no inefficiency, inef-ficiency, or slackened power. To the merchant let me suggest the motto: 'Small profits and quick sorvico and to tho shipbuilder the thought that tho life of tho war depends upon him. Tho food and tho war supplies must bo carried car-ried aoroBS the seas, no matter how many ships are sent to tho bottom. Tho places of those that go down must bo BUppUod and supplied at onco. To, the miner let me say that he stands where the farmer does; the work of the world waits on him. If he slack- IH ens or fails, armies and statesmen are H helpless. He also Ib enlisted in tho H great service army. The manufacture er does not need to be told, I hope, that the nation looks to him to speed and perfect overy process, and I want H only to remind his employes that their lH service Is absolutely indispensable and is counted on by every man who loves H the country and its liberties. IH "Let me suggest also that everyone l who creates or cultivates a garden helps and helps greatly to solve the problem of tho feeding of the nations. and that every housewlfo who prac- Uces strict economy puts herself in the ranks of those who serve tho nation. This is the time for America to correct IH her unpardonable fault of wasteful IH ness and extravagance. Let every man l and every woman assume the duty of IH careful, provident use and expenditure IH as a public duty, as a dictate of pa- IH trlotism which no one can now expect IH ever to be excused or forgiven for ig- H noring. IH "In the hopn that this statement of jH the needs of the nation and of the IH world in this hour of supreme crisis IH may stimulate those to whom it come3 IH and remind all who need reminder of H tho solemn duties of a time such as the IH world has never seen before, I beg that H all editors and publishers everywhere H will give as prominent publication and H as wldo circulation as possible to this H appeal. I venture to suggest also to H all advertising agencies that they H would perhaps render a very substan- IH tial and timely service to the country H if they would give it widespread repe- IH titlon. And I hope that clergymen will jH not think these theme ot it an unwor- H thy or inappropriate subject of com- jH ment and homily from their pulpits. H "The supreme test of the nation has H come. We must all speak, act and IH serve together. H "WOODROW WILSON." H |