Tuesday's papers contained the text of President Wilson's stirring appeal
to his fellow-countrymen for unstinted war service. There was not a single selfish element in the cause they were fighting for— the rights of mankind and the future peace and security of the world. They must devote themselves to service without regard to profit or personal advantage, and realize to the full how great the task was, how many kinds of elements of capacity and service and self-sacrifice it involved. First and foremost was the supply of abundant food, not only for themselves, their Allies and seamen, but also for a large part of the nations with whom they had made common cause. " We must supply ships by hundreds out of our shipyards to carry to the other side of the sea, submarines or no submarines, what will every day be needed there "—clothing and eouinment, coal and steel and rails and locomotives and rolling- stock, mules and horses. The industries on farms and in shipyards, mines, and factories must- be. made more prolific and efficient than ever. The President here addressed a special word to farmers, since " the supreme need of our own nation, and of the nations with whom we are co-operating, is an abundance of supplies, especially foodstuffs, and especially in the present year."
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