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Show TBESTDENT AEALS TO LOYAL CITIZENS to Give Freely of Serv.ce for Benefit of Country. Washington.-ln a personal 'appeal adJiS to his fellow countrymen Presfdenl Wi.son, on April 12 ca ed upon every American cit.zen to 30m together to make the nation a unit for the preservation of its ideals and for triumph of democracy in the world tting the navy on a war footing and raising a great army are , tte simplest parts of the great task ahead the president declares, and he urges all the people with particular emphasis em-phasis on His words to the farmers to concentrate their energies, practice economy, prove unselfishness and demonstrate efficiency. The president declared that It is evident to every thinking man that our industries, in farms, in shipyards, in the mines, in the factories, must be made more prolific and more efficient effi-cient than ever and that they must be 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 the men and the women who devote their thought and their energy to these things will be serving the country coun-try and conducting the fight for peace and freedom just as truly and just as effectively as the men on the battle field or in the trenches. The industrial indus-trial forces of the country, men and women alike, will be a great national, a great international service army a notable and honorable host engaged in the service of the nation and the world, the efficient friends and saviors of free men everywhere. Thousands, nay, hundreds of thousands of men 1 otherwise liable to military service will, of right and of necessity, be excused ex-cused from that service and assigned to the fundamental, sustaining work of the fields and factories and mines, and they will be as much part of the great patriotic forces of the nation as the men under fire. "I take the liberty, therefore, of addressing this 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 co-operating is an abundance abun-dance of supplies, and especially of foodstuffs. The importance of an adequate ade-quate food supply, especially for the present year, is superlative. Without abundant food, alike for the armies and the peoples now at war, the whole great enterprise upon which we have embarked will break down and fail. The world's food reserves are low. Not only during the present emergency, emergen-cy, but for some time after peace shall have come, both our own people and a large proportion of the people of Europe must rely upon the harvests m America. Upon the farmers of this country, therefore, in large measure rests the fate of the war and the fate of the nations. May the nation not count upon them to omit no step that will increase the production of their land or that will bring about the most ettectual co-operation in the sale and distribution of their food products1' The time is short. It is of the most imperative importance that everything Possible be done and done immediately immediate-ly to make sure of large harvests. I call upon young men and old alike and upon the able-bodied boys of the land !ccep,' aud act upon this dutv-to certa n T t0 Ule tarms and il,ake certain that no pains and 110 labor is lacking in this great mat.er era HitiCUl0rl? appeal t0 tl,e far" ZLt he south t0 Plant abundant oodstufts as well as cotton. Thev can mn Uleir.',atrio'ism iu no better or more convincing way than bv resist ug the great temptation of the n'ret ng upon a COUOn aUd h of toe counTr? the ra,1' agers or o ative'l er, thy e man" say that the ra Bv, Plye.e8' hH me of the nation's ifea4Vtrntth! rests the immentn , at ,lpon them seeing to it that th POnRll,,I,ty at no obatmcHon'oanV6 "ui Bf ficencv or ,i,i,0' , y Mnd- "o inef- merchant ,P nned T the 'Small profits and n -B?St mot,0: to the shIi,buHdei?thetCi "T1' aml life of the war dtnn, "K'U tlml ,hp tod and the ta" "tnli"" Mm' T,,e carried across the ,e,i E ,,U1St bo many ships are ,n? . ?a,tor how The places of th0SP 0 tho bottom. b,e supplied and sim i, 1wn m"s' the miner let m"l X a! ,nco- Tr' h"ere the farmer does 1 , R,n,u,R the world waits on h ,P Wor' of ! eis or fan, " n 1,lm- If be ,s;u.k. ' he""ss. n"' a1 S':"H- great service army." rnIlstcJ ' tho |