| Show PRESIDENT WILSON MN ISSUES AN APPEAL TO THE GOTO COUNTRY executive in personal message urges united action in war for liberty FARMERS HOLD NATIONS FATE asks ask them to make every possible effort to supply abundant food for ourselves our army amy find and navy and for the nations nation whom we are now new allied with vi IN hington fiS april I 1 17 deit alwn on holiday bunday night eight ad ess ita a personal appold to his fellow cun countey t 1 Y men and called upon var ever ameri american citizen man mid woman find chilli child ol 01 t join tog together ther to make the nation a unit for ill lie a dumson im ot of its io dilall anil wi for ot of de demoree morue in tile the world orld wa war r the supine test of tile the nation has come says say the address ve must all speak act and it serve together text test of address addess the address follows lily fly fellow me the entrance of our own iran beloved country let into uie the grim and terrible war nor fur for democracy and human rights which obrell has shaken the world crestell creates so in many air peoble pio blema a of national into hie and action which call for fop immediate consideration and it settlement tt lement that 1 I inept hope you will an permit we ine to address to you a few words mord of tamest earnest co coluse and appeal with ith regard to them ive are rapidly putting our navy v upon an off effective eltive war eat tooting footing and ad or are beat about to create 1 end I equip ip a gnat army con but these are the simplest parts of the great task to widen which we have addressed our ourselves ivea there Is not link a single selfish elo ele ment mcm so far as I 1 can see la in the cause we are am fighting for we or are a fighting tor for what 11 t we believe and wish to be tile tho rights of mankind and ad for the futile peace and security of the w world d these then are m the ill things we wea must do and do welt moll besides fighting fight wil the things without which mere ficht ing 19 would be fruitless INS ft e must supply abundant food for far ourselves and for our armies ambes and wi seamen not only but also tor for a large part pact or of the it nations all I 1 with blums clums we have now made common cause in w hose support t and vid b by whose base sides da we me shall hall be light lighting i ng must supply ships ship we must supply ship by the hun him lb deeds ads out at of our shipyards hi pard to entry carry to ill the other side of the sea ell submit rines or no submarines whit will every dav be needed there them and abundant materials out of our fields and our booc mines and it our or factories with which not only to clothe and equip our own forces f on land and sea but also to clothe cloth and ad sp support port our people 11 for whom the he go gallant of fellows fellow under do arms armi can no DO longer work to help clothe and equip the armies with which us ne are no operating cooperating in europe and to keep the loom and in there them in raw materials coat coal to keep the firm going 1 in ships hip at in sea and it 1 in tile the fur far rus ru s across the so sea steel out t of which to make arms and cummi ammunition both here and there rail tor for worn more out cut r ill roads heel back of the fighting fronts creole loco locomotives in of ives and rolling talk stock to take the place do m of those every day going to ale pieces cell mules horses hordes cattle tor for labor unit and tor for military service everything with which the dole people I 1 of england ad and ad frince france and ad italy t ay and ad fa gil vappu russia have bare usually supplied d teem 1 salves 11 1 1 but bill cannot now afford the men to the is abt materials 11 or the machinery to make need greater efficiency itis it Is evident to eory thinking man that our 1 industries in farms in ship cri birdt d in 0 tile the 1 m nes a 1 in tile the factories ine must it be made ad wars more prolific and more irvien t than ever and doht that they must b be more economically ally managed and better to lo the paU Ir requirements q quire a ments of our task talk than they he have feea b c n and what I 1 want of to soy say is that Is th the me men and the women bome who mile devote file their an alij their commy to the these tion things will md b he a serving ill the country and conducting the fight for peace and freedom just as truly and just as offe effective edve ly IY as the nun mn on the battlefield or 1 in the a trenches tb appeal to farmers thin thousands ads nav as hundreds of thou than sands of men mail otherwise liable to mill I 1 tary 1 service I will of right and of ally excused it from that 11 1 service 1 C and l assigned to ill the C fundamental so sustain 1 in ing work of the fields and factories enid and mines and they will be as much part of the great patriotic far forces of the nation be as the mm n under tinder tire or 1 I take the liberty b r Y therefore of ill ill ciui word it 1 to 11 the farmers of the country and to all ho work on the farms far itie I 1 he supreme up is need or of 1 our I own nation ow and ad of 11 the 1111 nations 1 n with it which me ftp or ahre la Is nil it amoul ce of and ad especially of the importance of 1 nn u fooie supply fop fill the yen year ja I 1 1 without I le ab abundant to food alike fw for the and the he peoples now new nt at war at tile the whole great enterprise chui we me 1 tune ado 10 will aill bir hacili down me and f fall hold fate of nations the worlds world food lire are low i not only during tile the pr sent emergency but for far tome in time after borits shall hall hae come both our mor we own people froede a and I a I 1 irge proper proportion of 1 ato people CA of eu sto r rope ore must most r rely cly ou if alie b haretia hare avis iia in anart america i upon the of this country i therefore in large measure ast the fate of the war and the fate or of tile the nations nation 1 may the nation net bount oun upon then them to omit no step top it that will 11 i increase eth the of f their land or r that will 11 bring about b the in me most t or ef i co operation cooperation in the be sale anil wi dietr distribution n of their products T the 1 time Is shant it Is of tile the most impe imperative ratite importance that everi tiling po possible sible be lone done and time rione immediately to make made sure born of if large harvests I 1 call u upon on a loung boung men and old oid abbe hald upon the able called bodied bl bos a of the land hoof to accept fit suit and tot act upon on this ill dut dt to to turn in lard to the farms arms and mine mike coilan that no pins pairs and no lot labor or 1 Is lacking 1 in this great 1 I incitti imly appeal to the in farmers i com of the south to plant abundant f food ad stuffs as m well ell as cotton trade to be unhampered th the a course of tilde hill hakl be as t nn n hampered el a it la IS possible to make i it t and thre shall be no unwarranted manipulation of the nation a food sup id bv those who mile handle it on it its way may to the consumer this thia let me say lay to the midd mar of eiery sort whether they am ban on ill adling I 1 ing our foodstuffs or our raw boale t bolc aerials of manufacture or the products a of our or neilla its and ad fact factories the ill eve of the country will mil be ba eltse especially ily open you ihla la Is vou opportunity for sig mg nal service re efficient and tile the country expects sea ou as it expects all others to forego unusual profits to organ or ganie and expedite shipments of supplies of every kind but bill especially of food with on an S eve to the service cice C ice you are rendering and in the spirit of those who she enlist in the ohp ranks for far their people not for themselves I 1 I 1 shall confidently expect you yoa to deserve and win the confidence of ch people of every sort and station lot eth efficiency boy on ch railroads railroad to tile the me men v eh ho vict ill the ralla railways of the country an whether they be in in agers or operative em employees ploce let we say that the railways railway are the arteries ot of the nation a life and that orthe upon them tests rests the Inow immense tise responsibility of seeing to it that those this acted arte ilca suffer no an cht obstruction of any kind no with dey d ey or slackened power down to T the mer hint let me suggest the ro motto it small pro n is and ad buol or ice rod and to the shipbuilder b it the thought datha that the life of the war depends end upon him the food and ad the war mat supplies must most be carried tried across or the sees seas no mat ter how many ships are sent seat to tire he bottom the places of those that go down doon must be a supplied p at jacc pt ous to the ill miner let i me say that he izands ard where he the firm firmer does do the work tick of ill the world me waits is on 11 him a if he slackens or falls acred armies anil and statesmen ter are am holat ile he also Is enlisted la in tile the great ben ice army every garden helps let me suggest also that every one who creates or cultivates a gorden garden helps and ad helps greatly gre gC itly to 1 solve C 11 in the a problem of the feeding of t the e nations a it a and that overs housewife f s who ll 11 pra s m time strict economy ru puta u h herself r in n the ranks of those who serve the cho na an it alon this Is the time for america to correct her unpardonable ampard ible fault of t wastefulness and ad atra extravagance L let t every cy eg man and it every I 1 I 1 woman assume the of 1 careful provident use and P no to ture to a as a public till duty as a duct dictate tc ot of which no one co can now C ex pct act ever to be ced or forgiven forgive for far ignoring in the hope that this statement of the needs code of tire the nation and of tile the wald 1 in this hour of su supreme crisis may stimulate those chose to whom it comes had and remind all 11 who ow need reminder of ill the solemn duties of a time such as the world rid has ile never seen before I 1 beg that ail 11 editors and publisher ever everywhere here will it gh gac as a prominent political publication and ad aa a wide ld el elin in as possible to fit tins appe appeal I 1 supreme test has he CI come 1 venture to suggest also to all ad or it at m agencies ile that chat they would mild per cul hope haps a very sets substantial and timely service to th the it if they would give it w widespread 1 repetition and chope I 1 hope lust will 1 I not the ile theme law of 1 it an unworthy or inappropriate subject of Lorn amment ment and from their ait pulpits the supreme test of the nation has come a we ewt list all tl speak act and ad serve tog to gither ther WOODROW WILSON |
