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VOLUME 33
ST. JOHNS, APACHE COUNTY, ARIZONA, MAY 10, 1917
NO. 37
FARMERS!
The President of the United
States appeals to you and to
the Men, Women, and
Children oa the farms
.My Fellow Countrymen:
The entrance of our own be
loved couniay into the grim and
terrible war for demooracy and
human rights which has shaken
the world creates so many prob
lems of national life and action
which calls for immediate consid
eration and settlement that I hope
:you will permit me to address to
;you a few words of earnest coun
'sel and appeal with regard to
them.
We are rapidly putting our navy
upon an effective war footing and
are about to create and equip a
great army, hut these are the
simplest parts of the great task
to which we have addressed our
selves. There is not a single sel
rish element, so far as I 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 suc
cessfully we must devote our
selves to the service without re
gard to profit or material advan
tage and with an .energy and in
telligence that will rise to the level
of the enterprise itself. We must
realize to the full Ihow great the
task is and how many things, how
many kinds and elements of ca
pacity and service and self-sacrifice,
it involves .
These, then, are the things we
jmust do, and do well, besides
ifighting, the things without
which mere fighting would be
fruitless:
We must supply abundant food
for ourselves and for our armies
and our seamen not only, but al
so for a large part of the nations
with whom we have mow made
common cause, in whose support
and by whose sides we shall be
fighting.
We must .supply ships by the
hundreds out of our shipyards to
carry to the other side of the sea,
submarines or sno submarines,
what will everyday be needed
there, andabundantmaterialsout
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 the armies with which
we are cooperating in Europe,
and to keep the looms and manu
factories there in raw material;
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
guns and amunition both here and
there; rails for worn-out railways
back of the fighting fronts; loco
motives and rolling stock to take
the place of those every day go
ing to pieces; mules, horses, cat
tle for labor and military service;
everything with which the peo
ple of England and France and
Italy and Russia have usually sup
plied themselves but cannot now
afford the men, the materials, or
the machinery to make.
It is evident to 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 effi
cient that ever and that they must
be more economically managed
and better adapted to the particu
lar requirements , of our task than
they have been; and what 1 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
effectively as the men on the bat
tlefield or in the trenches. The
industrial forces of the country,
men and women alike, will be a
great national, a great interna
tional, 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 otherwise lia
ble to military service will of right
and of necessity be excused 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 farm
ers 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
cooperating is an abundance of
supplies, and especially of food
stuffs. The importance of an
adequate food supply, especially
for the present year, is superla
tive. Without abundant food,
alike for the armies and the peo
ple 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 some
time after peace shall have come
both our own people and a large
proportion of the people of Eu
rope must rely upon the harvests
in 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 in
crease the production of their
land or that will bring about the
most effectual cooperation in the
sale and distribution of their
products? The time is short. It
is of the most imperative impor
tance that everything possible be
done immediately to make sure
of large harvests, fcall upon
young men 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 on pains
and no labor' is lacking in this
great matter.
I particularly appeal to the
farmers of the South to plant
abundant forjd stuffs as well as
cotton. They can show their
patriotism in no better or more
convincing way than by resisting
the great temptation of the pres
ent 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 measure of their compre
hension of their national duty.
The Governnment of the
United States and the govern
ments of the several States stand
ready to cooperate. They will
do everything possible to assist
farmers in securing an adequate
supply of seed, an adequate force
of laborers when they are most
needed at harvest time, and the
means of expediting shipment of
fertilizers and farm machinery,
as well as of the crops themselves
when harvested . The course of
Road to Happiness.
Be amiable, cheerful and good
natured and you are much more
likely to be happy You will find
this difficult, if not impossible,
however, when you are constant
ly troubled with constipation.
Take Chamberlain's Tablets and
get rid of that and it will be easy.
These tablets not only move the
bowels, but improve the appetite
and strengthen the digestion.
Adv.
; trade shall be as unhampered as
: it is possible to make it and there
shall be no unwarranted manipu
lation of the nation's food supply
by those who handle it on its way
to the consumer. This is our
opportunity to demonstrate the
efficiency of a great Democracy
and we shall not fall short of it!
This let me, say to the middle
men of every sort, whether they
are handling our tood stuns or
our raw materials of manufacture
or the products of our mills and
factories; The eyes of the coun
try will De especially upon you.
This is your opportunity tor sig
nal service, efficient and disinter
ested. The country expects you
as it expects all others, to forego
unusual profits, to organize and
expedite shipments of supplies of
every kind but especially of food
with an eye to the service you are
rendering and in the spirit of
those who enlist in the ranks, for
their people, not for themselves.
I shall confidently expect you to
deserve and win the confidence
of neonle of every sort and
station. t
To the men who run the rail
ways of the country, whether
they be managers or operative
employees, let me say that the
railway are' the arteries of the
nation's life and that upon them
rest 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 profits and
quick service;" and to the ship
builder the thought that the life
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 sup
plied 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 help
less. He also is enlisted in the
great Service Army. The manu
facturer does not need to be told,
I hope, that the nation looks to
him to speed and perfect every
process; ana l want oniy to re
mind his employees that their
service is aosoiuteiy lnaispen
sable and is counted on by every
man who loves the country and
its liberties.
Let me suggest, also, that
everyone who creates or cultivates
a garden helps, and helps greatly,
to solve the problem of the feed
ing of the nations; and that every
housewife who practices strict
economy puts 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, pro
vident use and expenditure as a
public duty , as a dictate of patriot
ism which no one can now expect
ever to to be excused or forgiven
for ignoring.
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 the solemn
duties of a time such as the world
has never seen before, I beg that
all editors and publishers every
where will give as prominentpub
lication and as wide circulation as
possible to this appeal. I ven-
The Bank of the People
Efficiency, Courtesy and
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Business Solicited
We take care
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43 ELMER D. RINEHART,
Secretary, The Cowboy Reunion and Amusement
ture to suggest, also, to all adver
tising agencies that they would
perhaps render a very substantial
and timely service to the country
if they would give it widespread
repetition. And I hope that cler
gymen will not think the theme
of it an unworthy or inappropri
ate subject of comment and hom
ily from their pulpits.
THE SUPREME TEST OF THE
NATION HAS COME. WE
MUST ALL SPEAK, ACT, AND
SERVE TOGETHER!
WOODROW WILSON.
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