St Johns is having a healthy substantial growth. Lands are cheap but rapidily increasing in value. Best climate on earth. 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 3 3 Past Business appreciated, Business Solicited We take care 43 1 ST. JOHNS STATE BANK t 3 St Johns, Arizona The Third Annual COWBOYS' REUNION & tf To be held at Springerville, Ariz., h 4 June 21, 22 and 23, 1917. K Better events and bigger purses than ever before. T 4 Details to be published later. For information write jL, 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. ublished by the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture. Saves Eggs Dr. Price's Cream Baking: Powder makes it possible to produce appetizing" and wholesome cakes, muffins, cornbread, etc., with fewer eggs than are usually required. In many recipes the number of eggs may be re duced and excellent results obtained by using an additional quantity of Dr. Price's Baking Powder, about a teaspoon, in place of each egg omitted. 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