The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-27
WINNING WAR ON FARMS
By HOLLAND

New York, June 26-(Special. )-At q meeting of the New York State Bankers association, held few days ago. Mel win H. Traylor, who is president of the Live Stock Exchange National bank of Chicago, spoke as one having high authority and wide experience of the relation of American harvests to the war in Europe and to the triumph of the allies in that war. MT. Traylor com- pacted into few words, 20 in all. his view of the part American farmers will have in bringing ultimate triumph to the allies. He said that the war would De won by the American farmer and that the decisive battles would be fought on the wheat fields of Nebraska and Kansas. He might have added also the wheat fields of the northwest, which promise large harvests this year, and es- pecially of the district of which Minne- apolis is the center
 Some of those in this city who com mented upon MT. Traylor's address said that there was truth in it, nevertheless 1t did not contain the whole truth. For of what avail is it that the farmer should harvest bounteous crops of wheat as he seems like to do this year if there be no adequate facilities whereby the wheat can be sent to England France and the other allies? For this reason 1t is regarded here as of almost as much irn- portance that there be an ample suppty of ships as millions of bushels of wheat for export.
 Others commenting upon MT. Traylor' s address said that ho tobt that while wheat is of vital importance to the allies nevertheless there is an. other undertaking now well under way which from the military point of view may bring the war to such speedy close as to lessen foreign demand for wheat. There seems to be general approval in the financial district of the statements made by those who are of high author ity in tho department of aviation that if the United States is able within a reasonably short time to build and ship to Europe many thousands of airplanes of different types, and can furnish an army of at least 20000 trained airmen for these ships, that one service will do more to bring the war to an end with triumph to the allies than any other single activity can do. There is no criticism expressed for these various views, because 1t is believed that they VIII result III SucH puDlC OpfnlOn and in such concentrated activity at Wash iGgton as will enable perfect co-ordina- ton to be estbalished through the coun- cil of national defense. Those who are disposed to look with reasonable con- sideration upon all that is going on in Washington say that in view of the fact that it is only a few weeks since tine United States entered upon the war the methods now being adopted by which symmetry, excellent organization and CO., ordination can be evolved out of the almost chaotic conditions which prevailed just after we entered upon war, afford abundant encouragement that in short time the administration and the various organizations which are in alliance with it will have perfected this work.
 AS TT HAS BEEN BEFORE
 The conditions are not unlike, except ing in magnitude, those which prevailed in the beginning of our war with Spain in 1898, and those which prevailed the first year of the Civil war. President Lincoln was so greatly embarrassed by