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VOL. 19. No. 17
GAINESBORO, TENN., THURDSAY. APRIL . 1917
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
JACKSON
NTY
SENTINEL
PRESIDENT WILSON SOUNDS WAR ALARM;
Appeals To Every Citizen To Aid Country In The Great Crisis
"MY FELLOW COUNTRYMEN-
"The entrance of our own beloved country into the grim
and 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 settle
ment that 1 hope you will permit me to address to you a few
words of earnest counsel and appeal with regard to them. 1
"We are rapidly putting our navy upon an effective war
footing and are about to create and equip a great army, but
these are the simplest parts of the great tasK to which we haye
addressed ourselves. . ,
"There is not a single selfish element, so far as I can see,
in the cause we are fighting for. We are fighting for what wo
believe and wish to be the rights of mankind and for the
future peace and security of the w.orld.
"To do this great thing worthily and successfully we must
devote ourselves to the service without regard to profit or ma
terial 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 capacity and
service and self-sacrifice it involves.
MUST PROVIDE ENORMOUS SUPPLIES OF FOOD.
"These, then, are the things we must do, and do well, be
sides fighting the things without whichmere fighting would
be fruitless: ' .
"We must supply abundant food for ourselves and for our
armies and our seamen, not only, but .also for a large part of
the nations with whom we have now made common cause; in
whose support and b whose side, we shall be fighting.
"We supply ships by the hundfeds 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
out of our fields and dur 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. Whelp clothe and equip
the armies with whom we are cooperating in Europe, and to
keep the looms and manufactories there in raw material, coal
to keep the fires going in ships at sear and in the furnaces of
hundreds of factories " across ... the seak steel out of
which to make arms and ammunition Jwth here and there,
rails for wornout railways back of the fighting fronts, locomo
tives and rolling stock to take the place of those every day
going to pieces, mules, horses, cattle for labor and for military
service: everything with which the people of England and
France and Italy and Russia have usually supplied themselves
but cannot now afford the men, the materials or the machinery
to make. . ' , '
INDUSTRIE MUST BE MORE PROLIFIC AND EFF1QFNJ.
"It is evident of every thinking man that our industries,
on the farms, in the shipyards, in the mines, in the factories,
must be made more prolific and more efficientthan ever, and
that they must be more economically managed and better
adapted to the particular requirements o'f 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 and conducting the fight
for peace and freedom'just as truly and just as effectually as
the men on the battlefield or in the trenches.
"The industrial forces, of the country, men and women
alike, will be a great national, a great International Service,
Army-a notable and honored 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 other
wise liable to military service and assigned to the fundamental
sustaining work of the fields and foctories 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 farm:
The supreme need of our own nation and of the nations with
which we are co-operating is an abundance of supplies, and
especially of foodstuffs. The importance of an adequate food
supply, especidlly for the present year, is superlative.
WILL DEPEND LONG ON AMERICAN HARVESTS.
"Without abundant food, alike for the armies and the
people 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 but
for sometime after peace shall have come both our own people
and a large proportion of the people Europe must rely upon
harvests in America.
"Upon the farmers of this country, therefore, in lai'ge
measure, rests the fath 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 which will bring
about the most efiectual co-operation in the sale and distribu
tion of their products. r
"The time is short. It is of the most imperative impor
tance that everything possible be done and done immediately
to make sure of large harvests. I call upon young man and
old alike and upon the able-bodied boys of the land to accept
and act upon this duty to turn in hosts to the farms and make
certain that no pains and no labor are lacking in this great
matter.
"I particularly appeal to the farmers of the South to plant
abundant foodstuffs as well as cotton. They can show their
patriotism in no better or more convincing way than by resist
ing the great temptation of the present price of cotton and
helping, helping upon a great scale, to feed the nation and the
peoples everywhere who are fighting for their liberties and for
our own. The variety of their crops will be the visible meas
ure of their comprehension of their national duty.
FEDERAL AND STATE AID FOR FARMERS.
"The Government of the United States and the government
of the several States stand ready to co-operate. They will do
everything possible to assist the farmers in securing an ade
quate supply of seed, and adequate force of laborers when they
are most needed- at harvest time-and the means of expediting
shipments of fertilizers and farm machinery, as well as the
crops themselves when they are harvested.
"The course of trade shall be unhampared as it is possible to
make, and there shall be no unwarranted manipulation of the
nation's food supply by those who handle it on its way to the
consumer. This is our opportunity to demonstrate the effici
ency of agreat democracy, and we shall not fall short of it.
FARM NEWS.
Prepared Especially for Jack
son County Farmers.
Wkat To Do Now,
War measures on the farm
take precedence over ' anything
else. The man and woman at
home are fighting just as truly
as are the boys at the front
This is America's attitude to-day;
citizens believe in fighting as a
nation, if we have to fight at all,
rather than to fight as an army.
This, national leaders tell us,
will win the war for 'is.
The state conference on 'food
supply, which met. at Nashville
Wednesday. April 11. stated the
facts; the producer, the farmer.
has a oreat resDonssbility. Not
the sole responsibility, for every
one must take part in this war,
But there are several things that
farmers can do at once to help
out Four of these .things are
"su crested by the conference.
They are:
FIRST. TheOimmediate plant?
ingoffood for present use of
themselves and livestock and the
planting, of surplus corps as will
secure an adaquate food supply
for the coming year. Plant to
the limit of successful produc
tion, confining such planting by
preference to the food products
with which the individuals are
most familiar. Plan for an in
creased acreage in wheat and
other fall grains for the coming
year.
. SECOND. Guard most zeal
ously the seed supply for the
coming year. The neglect of
saving on the farm of sufficient
seed may defeat future planting
and crop production.
THIRD. Wherever surplus
seed for this planting exists, ar
range to help and in every way
assist your more needy neishbors
by loaning, to be returned in
kind, or by mutual sale.
FOURTH. Thru your county
ftrcni7fttions arr&nce to nroteet
and guard your seed supply and
to secure equitable local distribu
tion of game. Each county
should see to it that sufficient
seed is maintained in the county
for liberal planting this fall of
wheat and other grains before
any is sold upon the open mar-Ket
tion cannot be restored immedi
ately to its normal basis. Re
cognition of the fact that the
world at large, as well as our
own consumers, must rely more
strongly on American farmers
this year than ever before should
encourage them to strive to the
utmost to meet these urgent
needs. Secretary Houston.
Food Supply Imperatire.
The importance to the nation
of a generously adequate food
supply for the coming year can
not be over emphasized in view
of the economic problems 'which
may arise as a result of the en
trance of the United States into
the war. Fvery effort should be
made to produce more crops than
are needed for our own require
ments. Many millions of people
across the seas, as well as our
own people, must rely in large
part upon the products of our
fields and ranges. This situa
tion will continue to exist even
tho hostilities should end unex-
ipected since Eurppe&n produc-
Womei and Gardeninf
Withont going beyond their
own dooryards, millions of A
merican women and children can
render service to the nation this
summer as real as that rendered
by the soldier on the field of bat
tle. They each can do this by
merely planting and caring for a
home gardeh.
Radishes, onions, lettuce, beets
beans, peas, tomatoes, lima beans
spinach, and numerous other
easily cultivated vegetables can
be raised in the back yard pro
vided the soil is fertile and intel
igence is employed in the process.
There is no reason in the world
"This, let me say to the middleman of every sort, whether
they are handling our foodstuffs or our raw materials of manu
facture, or the products of our mills and factories;
"The eyes of the country will be especially upon you. This
is our your opportunity for signal service, efficient and disinter
ested. The country expects you, as it expects all others, to fore
go unusual profits, to organize and expedite shipments of suppl
ies of every kind, but especially of food, with an eye to the ser
vice you are rendering and in the spirit of those who enlist in
the ranks, for their people, not themselves. ' I shall confidently
expect you to deserve and win the confidence of people of every
sort and station.
"To the men who run the railroads of the country, whether
they be managers, or operatives, or employes, let me say that
the railways are the arteries of the nation's life, and that upon
them rests the immense responsibility of seeing to it that those
arteries suffer no obstruction of any kind, no inefficiency or
slackened power.
"To the merchant let me suggest the motto. 'SMALL PRO
FITS AND QUICK SERVICE. " and to the shipbuilder the
thought that the life of the war depends upon him.
"The food and the war supplies must be carried across the'
seas no matter how many ships are sent to the bottom. The
places of those that go down must be supplied and supplied at
once,
"To the miner let me say that he stands where the farmer
does; the work of the world waits on him. If he slackens or
fails, armies and statesmen are helpless. He also is enlisted
in the great service army.
"The manufacturer does not need to be told, I hope, that
the nation looks to him to speed and perfect every process;
and I want only to remind his employes that their service is
absolutely indispensable and is counted on by every man who
loves the country and its liberties.
"Let me suggest also, that every one who creates or cul
tivates a garden helps, and helps greatly, to solve the problem
of the feeding of the nations; and that every housewife who
practices strict economy pats herself in the ranks of those who
serve the nation. This is the time for America to correct her
unpardonable fault of wastefulness and extravagance.
"Let every man and every woman assume the duty of
careful, provident use and expenditure as a public duty, as a
dictate of patriotism which' no one now expect ever to be
excused or forgiven for ignorance.
. "In the hope that this statement of the needs of the nation
and of the world in this hour of supreme crisis may stimulate
those to whom it comes and remind all who need reminder of
tho solemn duties of a time such as the world has never seen
before. I beg that all editors and publishers "everywhere will
give as prominent publication and as wide circulation as pos- .
sibb to this appeal.
"I venture to suggest also, to all advertising agencies
that they would perhaps render a very substantial and timely
service to the country if they would give it widespread repe
tition. And I hope nhat clergymen will not think the theme of
it an unworthy or unappropriate subject of comment and
homily from their pulpits. .
"The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all
speak, act, and serve together.
"WOODROW WILSON."
why literally millions of new
back yard gardens should not be
planted this spring, as soon as
the ground is warm enough, and
supply millions of families with
good, cheap, nutritious foods all
this summer, war or no war,
The hitherto wasted resources
of this dooryard land should be
utilized at once. It is no more
work for a woman or a child to
tend a vegetable garden than it
is to tend a flower - garden or
house plants. At present it is
more patriotic to subordinate
flowers to food.
Later in the summer all the
surplus vegetables should be can
ned at home either in tins or in
glass jars, and kept to: supply
the family in the winter.
SWAT EX
Consider now the little fly, whose
name is rhymed with Baby
bye. He has his birth in the manure,
crawls forth and loiters in
sewer;
And smeared with deadly typhoid
germs, he leaves his brother
maggot-worm,
Unfurls his dainty wings of silk
and dumps his microbes in
the milk
Where there huge numbers mount
and mount increasing the
bacterial count
Until they reach the food supply
Some woman feeds her baby-
Ktra
vj v.
The fly comes gaily unto us, his
feet all gaumed with poison
pus. And singing clear his song so
sweet alights and cleans
them on the meat:
He gethers scarlet fever spores
and leaves them on the walls
and floors;
He is not proud, and oft will
stoop to earry heavy loads
of croup,
And place them where their aw
' ful death may come and go
with baby's breath.
Oh, do not call him indolent
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