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Arizona republican., 1917-04-22
MUST SAVE
 WORLD FROM STARVING

to last after that. Our, fate then rests on what we can harvest. What we harvest depends on what we plant now.
 Chicago is further ahead than the great eastern cities in the matter of conservation of food supplies, but Chi cago has not done it's best yet. The west will have oshelp support the east. Massachusetts imports $300000, ,000 worth of foodstuffs every year. If every foot of land in that state were cultivated. still the state would fall short six per cent in the production of it's own food supplies. The country must awaken to agriculture. All the experienced farm labor available must be turned to the soil.
 Farmers are not feeling the pinch and many of them are not awake to the situation. They of course will be the last to suffer in the case of food scarcity.
 Tt does not matter what it costs to produce. Money is only exchange. and if it should cost $2 to produce S1 worth of foodStuffs it must be done.
 Cost should not be counted now. The world must be kept from starving. To city housewives l would say: Cut out all waste and cut down on the use of food Can all the perishable foodstuffs you cannot eat. Don't wait for too cheap a price"
Arizona republican., 1917-04-22
STATES SUPPLY
 IF FOOD RUNNING
 SHORT, PLANT NOW

Arizona must awaken, the food sup ply is running short, there is a short age of labor, capital and machinery, and it is high time the average citizen plowed up his back yard and made ready to alleviate the shortage in food by growing d good crop of vegetables. This was the message brought back to Phoenix last night by F. C. McNabb. and M. E. Bemis, local men who attend ed the food mobilization conference at Tucson for the past two days.
 Men from all over the state, county agents, farm improvement experts, and men closely in touch with the states food situation, attended the conference. The whole situation was canvassed from start to finish. The meeting did not try to solve the question: but rec commended ways and means to solve it.
 The back yard garden movement seemed to be the quickest and cheapest manner to overcome the famine which is staring the country in the face. All agreed that if the average citizen can be convinced of the gravity of the Situ- ation. there would be hurry and scur- ry to ploy or spade up the much cultivat- ed back yard and plant it to vegetables which would at least subsist family for short while, while the grain crops were coming to the market.
 Many plans for substitute food were advanced by those present. Bread was passed around to the delegates made from kaffir corn and milo-wheat. This it is said will take the place of white bread, although it is not as palatable as the staff of life. Another delegate suggested rounding up all the burros (COntinued on Paga EiVel
Arizona republican., 1917-04-22
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CHICAGO, April 21.-The question or saving the world from starvation rests on the shoulders of America. Present indications are that by next winter there will not be enough food in the United States to feed the nations own people, let alone send supplies to the suffering multitudes of Europe. The only salvation lies in the planting of millions of additional acres to food stuffs and the cutting off of all waste.
 This was the message borne to Chi cago today by George E. Ferrill, Of the United States department of agri- culture. He was in the city short time on a tour of the country, making a detailed study of conditions of crops and foods for the government. MT. Ferrill was in conference with Mayor Thompson and officials of railroads, packing companies and other industries in an effort to devise means of further awakening the middle west to the need of night and day work in putting in crops.
 "Conditions are simply appalling when one thinks of what next winter seems certain to bring forth" said MT. Ferrill. From all the statistics we can gather, America has food enough to last till next fall. There is not enough
Arizona republican., 1917-04-22

and Stripes to the flag tower of the parliament building in London for the frs time a foreign flag ever has flown there in history
 Secretary Ralfour a tall, slim. white-haired man of 69 years, who has held the highest posts in the em- plre since he first entered parlia- ment, 43 years ago. saw today the completion of one of his life hopes expressed under vastly differcnt- cir cumstances on January 15. 1896, when he was largely instrumental in aVerting war between England and America over the Venezuela dispute.
 Tt cannot but be-" he said. that those whose national roots go down in to the same past as ours, who share our language, our literature. our laws, our religion, everything that makes nation great, it cannot but be that time will come when they will feel that they and we have a common duty to perform, a common office to fulfill among the nations of the world"
 While unable to grant an extended interview before presenting himself to President Wilson. Mr. Balfour con- sented to say few words as to his general hopes for the conference and the fundamental purposes behind it. A verbatim copy follows:
 "All will agree that my first duty as head of a diplomatic mission is to pay my respects to the head of the state to which 1 have been sent; and no public expression of opinion on points of pol icy would. l think. be useful or even tolerable until I have had the honor of conferring with your president, and learning his views. I have not come here to make speeches or indulge in in terviews; but to do what l can to make cooperation easy and effective between those who are striving with all their power to bring about lasting peace by the only means that can secure it. namely, a successful war
 Without. however, violating the rule l have just laid down, there are two things which 1 may permit myself to say; one on my own behalf, the other on behalf of my countrymen in general.
 "On my own behalf. let me express the deep qualification I feel at being connected in any capacity whatever with events which associate our coun- tries in a common effort for a great ideal.
 "On behalf of my countrymen, let me express our gratitude for all that the citizens of the United States of Ameri- ca have done to mitigate the lot of those who, in the allied countries. have suffered from the cruelties of the most deliberately cruel of all wars To name no others, the efforts of Mr. Gerard to alleviate the condition of British and other prisonerc of war in Germany and the administrative genius which MT
Arizona republican., 1917-04-22
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WASHINGTON, April 21.-A bitter indictment of German brutality in the deportation of conquered Belgians for forced labor written from behind the German lines by Brand Whitlock American minister to Belgium, was made public tonight by the state de- partment. It came in a confidential re- port last January when the United States was protesting vainly to Berlin against the treatment of the helpless people, but the department did not dare publish it at that time or until MT Whitlock was safe on French soil.
 The report begins with a story of what happened immediately after the German arrrv overran Belgium of ar engagements by the Belgian government to continue the wages Uf clvn4aAs thrown out of work and of the con- querers determination to put these men to work for them.
 Tn August von Hindenburg was ap- pointed to the supreme command" says the report. He is said to have criticized von Bissing's policy as too mild there was quarrels; von Bissing went to Der lin to protest. threatened to resign. but did not. He returned and German cf ficial here said that Belgium would now be subjected to a more terrible regime; would learn what war was. The prophecy has been vindicated
 The deportations began in October in the Etape. at Ghent and at Bruges. The policy spread: the Richiuel dis tricts of Hainaul, the mines and steel works about Charleroi were next at tackled, now they are seizing men in Rrabant, even in Brussels. despite some indications and even predictions of the civil authorities, that the policy was about to be abandoned The men shivering from cold and fear the parting from weeping wives and chil-
Arizona republican., 1917-04-22
Whltl0ck Holds German
 Brutality mb Betore World

dren, the barbarities of brutal Uhlans, all this made the scene a pitiable and distressing one
 T am constantly in receipt of re- ports from all over Belgium that tend to bear out the stories one constantly hears of brutality and cruelty. A num- Der of men sent back to Mons are said to be in a dying condition, many of them tubercular. At Malines and at Antwerp returned men have died their friends asserting that they have been victims of neglect and cruelty, of cold, of exposure, of hunger,
 Tt is said that in spite of the liberal salary promised those who would sign voluntarily no money has as yet been received in Belgium from workmen in Germany.
 one interesting result of the depor- tatlon remains to be noted, a result that once more places in relief the Ger
Arizona republican., 1917-04-22

man capacity for laundering. almost as great as the German capacity for cruel ty.
 They have dealt a mortal blow to any prospect they may have ever had of eing tolerated by the population of Flanders; they have brought home to every heart in the land, in a way that will impress its horror idelibly on the memory of three generations, a reali- Zation of what German methods mean, not, as with the early atrocities in the heat of passion and the first lust of war, but by one of these deeds that make one despair of the future of the human race, a deed coldly planned, studiously matured and deliberately and systematically executed, q deed so cruel that German soldiers are said to have wept in it's execution, and so monstrous that even German officers are now said to be ashamed"
Arizona republican., 1917-04-22
ROOSEVELT URGES
 CONSERVATION IF
 GRA||VAND GASOLINE
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 MINEOThssN Yb April 21.-In an address here today, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt advocated immediately steps to limit the amount of grain for brew ing and distilling intoxicating liquors. ; He advocated also the use of auto mobiles for joyriding be stopped so that the nations supply of gasoline can be conserved for war purposes and that the government in case of food shortage fobilize and conscript men for tilling the soil. Several hundred farm CTS and estate owners cheered his address.
 When we are threatened with a shortage of foodstuffs, as is apparent in the country wide crop reports today, and when it is our duty to supply food to our allies to our utmost ability he said, we should see that needed grain food necessities are not diverted from their proper usage to the manu- fracture of intoXicants.
 Most of the belligerent nations in Europe have taken this problem and settled it. Let us begin at once to see to it that our grain is kept for food and not put into alcoholic beverages.
 Everything that does not count for vital welfare should be reduced
 ''Nine-tenths of wisdom is in being wise in time. We may be going into a far greater trial than we think. Who can tell whether the war will last one year or two years or three years?
 There should be universal obligatory service outside of the army. Every man and woman should have his or her activities utilized in the most eff cient way I hone if a Sayara oror shortage threatens, the government will mobilize labor and use it so as to prevent such a shortage. If they vol unteer, well and good. If they don't make them"
Arizona republican., 1917-04-22
HIGH COMMISSIONERS TO
 GREAT CONFERENCE LAND
 SOMEWHERE IN AMERICA"
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A BALFOUR
  can soil today and their the capital
 
  central included With genial charitable relief Belgium qualification the United States conviction that this particularly
Arizona republican., 1917-04-22
Fsrst Offering of War
 Securities Oue1subscwbed

when the 5000, 100000 bond issue is placed before the general public.
 Offering of the certificates was maue normally because the S7,000,000,000 if nance measure is not yet a law. As soon as it is disposed of by congress. probably by Wednesday of next week, the formal offer win be made and pro ceeds of the subscription called for at once.
 The informal offering of the certii- cates has been before the banks of the country only three days. The certificates will bear three per cent interest and will mature June 30, the end of the fis cal year. The date of their maturity indicates belief on the part of officials that the s5,000, 900. GOO bond issue will be noated by that time.
Arizona republican., 1917-04-22
Argentina See,us Likely to
 Byeak With Germany Today

Monte Protegido contains terms which will cause a rupture between the two countries.
 A demonstration organized by the ptople's patriotic committee in support of the international policy of President 1rrOgoyen against the German subma- rine campaign was held tonight. Var ious public men made speeches after a procession had marched to the govern ment palace, declaring that Argentina s traditional policy would be made to shine anew by the government, which recognized the justice of the cause of the nations fighting against imperial ism and despotism.
Arizona republican., 1917-04-22
NTE FORCES
 GAINING
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 While the artillery of the French and British armies continue to hurl thou sands of projectiles into the German lines from Lens to east of AuberiVe in Champagne the entente forces have re- pulsed counter attacks and made prog reSs at some points.
 The artillery activity is reported most intense near Arras, south of St, Quentin and on the Aisne and Cham pagne fronts in the region of Soissons and Rheims. German guns are reply ing to the entente fire at some points.
 During the two weeks of the Anglo French offensive, the Germans lost more than 33,000 prisoners and 330 guns larger than machine guns. Mon day of each of the last two weeks has been the beginning of a new offensive by one of the entente armies and the heavy artillery duels of the last two days may be the forerunner of new
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Arizona republican., 1917-04-22
HURRLES TO CAPITAL
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FTess Wie WASHINGTON April
 
  train Secretary Lansing received tonight this telegram reply a O Allow thank cordially of
  handed American
  of offer hospitality May add | myself American soil this will be little station tomorrow Secretary Lansing will 6aiour the Second Cavalry will immediate Lansing residence prepared
Arizona republican., 1917-04-22
EIGHT PRISONERS
 OVERCOME TURNKEY
 AND MAKE ESCAPE
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 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, April 21.-Eight prisoners escaped from the county jail here tonight, shortly before o'clock, and are still at large. The delivery, accord ing to c. l. Howard, turnkey, was engineered by John Hunt with the assistance of two others. Accord ing to Towards story he unlocked the door of the bull pen in order to permit Hunt to use the telephone. Hunt and two others overpowered him, took his keys, drew a piece of garden hose around his neck and locked him in a cell. The three men liberated five others on their way through the jail. Their escape was not known until nearly half an hour later when Howard regained con- sciousness and attracted the atten- tion of trusty passing the cell in which he lay.
Arizona republican., 1917-04-22
CHILEANS SEND MESSAGE
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2 SANTIAGO, Chile, April 21-A mes sage signed by two hundred of the most prominent Chileans has been sent to President Wilson. The message reads: The Spanish-American nations. born Of liberty and established on democratic bases, cannot do less than adhere to the fundamental expressions of your mes sage to the North American parliament confident that the exercise of justice and liberty under the protection of de- mocracy will be. .consecrated to the tri- umph of humanitarian ideals"
Arizona republican., 1917-04-22
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WASHINGTON, April 21.-The first American offering of war securities in any form $2OO, O,OO0,OOo in treasury cer- tiicates, has been heavily oversub- scribed.
 How great the over-subscription, is officials were unable to say tonight as many of the banks before which the offer had been placed informally through the federal reserve board, had not been heard from
 The certificates were offered only to financial institutions. The response, officials believe, presages a patriotic outpouring of funds to an extent un- paralleled in the history of any nation
Arizona republican., 1917-04-22
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~. ItdS6u VHtJ
 BUENOS AIRES, April 21.-El Diario says the government probably will break off relations with the German minister tomorrow as there is no hope of obtaining satisfactory explanations or indemnifications for the sinking of the Monte Protegido. It adds that Ar gentina then will join with the nations fighting for liberty, civilization and democracy.
 The newspaper says that according to the version given out at the govern ment palace, the note sent to Germany in protest against the sinking of the
Arizona republican., 1917-04-22
FOR REASONABLE PRICES 

WASHINGTON, April 21-Senator Cummins introduced amendments to- day to the espionage bill prohibiting the use of grain in the manufacture of alcohol during the war and requiring food and clothing to be sold at reason able prices. The bill probably will not come before the senate again until the war army measure is disposed of
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The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1917-09-07

CENATOR STONES answer to his critics was
y lust a bit belated and some shy in sincerity.
Little else was expected.
UNEASY is that candidate for re-electon to
- Congress who voted for that conscription
law. And well he may be!
THE main concern of Germany, at this time,
L is for her foreign trade after the war. 1t
is well worth thinking about.
ONE exchange says that the greatest fault OF
- the closed saloon is that one doesn't know
where to look tor ones friends.
TN THE matter of raising money, Democratic
statesmen seem not to know the meaning OF
of the word equity. With them, to see is to
take.
DEPUBLICANS in Congress who have forgot
IL ten their party at the behest of the Admin
istraton will wake up to find that their party has
forgotten them.
rs IT because the big business enterprises of
this country are the result OF a Republican
tariff that the Administration now wants to tax
them out of existence?
IIAD that been the son of Democratic Con-
Ill gresham who, it is alleged, went to Cana
da to escape the draft, would the Administration
have brought him back?
THE clarion voice of JOE " WILLIAMS had the
L same effect upon General PEACE that the
blasts of the rams horn did upon the walls. OF
Jericho. He came down.
DERHAPS the reason Democrats are in such
hurry to start the campaign is that they
have so much explaining to do that they need
all the time they can get.
GERMANY has apologized to Argentina, which
- is an admission that her submarine tao
tics against neutrals was wrong few more
such and she will be in line for peace.
WYE HAD rather see detailed statement
w well supported, however-of the expendi-
lures of the money loaned to the Allies than to
have the simple word of Secretary McADoo
for it.
WYE WANT everything done to bring this war
w to successful close, but it looks like the
Administration is trying to do more in six months
in the way of men and money than England
did in the first two years of the war;
FTP IN Massachusetts, the Democrats didn't
y think enough of their chances for electlng
their State ticket to qualify for places on the
ballot They don't seem to be innoculated with
this rNew Freedom stuff in that section.
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1917-09-07
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

livery time the Germans attack Verdun they
IL receive fresh evidence that France is ex-
hausted and ready to quit.
THEY are so busy getting the peoples money
that they are not concerning themselves
at all about how it is spent
DEPORTS from Germany indicate that the
IL demand for the freedom of the press is
abont as insstent as over here.
THE principal industry in Washington seems
to be the imposing of taxes, without regard
for probable effect on individual or corporation
THOSE who are loudest in demanding that the
people stand by the President are more
noted for their love Of the loaves and fishes than
for patriotism.
A NATIONWIDE milk investigation is pro-
n posed The manner in which the Demo
cratic party has MIXED the people ought to be
also inquired into.
THE President has evidently changed his mind
on the point that there is not any man
who knows how to take care of all the people
of the United States"
THE good people, after two long years. are
curious to know what kind OF an appeal
JOE " WILLIAMS made upon the Justice and
fairness" of General PEACE.
WTHILE many papers are roasting the suiira-
w gettes for insulting the President they
don't have much to say about those Senators who
daily insult this country. Why!
THE confusion and doubt which reign between
Government and business has almost para
lived trade in all lines of industry. The effect
will probably be reflected in the next bond issue
livery time there is a bond issue or bur-
II densome tax levied, bunch of deserving
Democrats proceed to spend it with the abandon
of drunken sailors-and in the name OF pa
triotism
NOTWITHSTANDING talk to the contrary,
II the war is unpopular. Not so much the
war and what it means as the wishywashy policy
before and the incompetency manifested since
hostilites we're declared.
EXPORTS from this country to Japan IN l9lI
II were Sl3O,472, ,l8o. Our imports from
Japan were $2O8, ,l27,478. Will any sane man
contend that free trade is furthering the best
interests of the United States?
GAYS CLAUD KIrcHIN: 7This is democratic
- war and hence the expense should be met
by democratic tax" But as Republican States
are to pay most of this tax, it has degenerated
into merely Democratic affair.
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1917-09-07
LATEST WAR STRAWS

GROUP of about thirty bankers met at lunch
" con in New York, few days ago, and the
conversation drifted to peace. Not one out OF
the thirty believed that the war would last more
than year longer. Majority of them looked
for peace in the near future.
ON account of the under-nourishment of the
~ miners and their consequent ability to put
in long hours, Austria Hungary is facing coal
crisis. Withdrawal of $4,000 men from the
front to the mines has not yet succeeded in IN
creasing the output.
DEACE talk is rampant. No one processes to
have hrst-hand information, but the ru-
mors persist. They are generally credited to
bankers who had good sources OF information
from Germany before we entered the war.
THE maximum insurance to be granted to sol
1 diers was cut from $4,000 to $4,000,
Allowance of widow or widowed mother was
also cut off upon her remarriage. The rate for
insurance is $8 per ST 900 insurance.
CINCE the British started recruiting their sub
- iects in this country, more than 5000 have
enlisted Britons and Canadians living in the
United States who do not enlist within the next
few weeks will be conscripted.
NETHERLANDS government has declined to
lN accede to the demand of Germany that
Dutch ships repaired with German steel be de-
voted to German use for five years after the war.
CHICAGO dispatch says National Food Ad-
~ ministration will store 100000 bushels
of potatoes for use the coming winter. They
will be sold at cost, $l.50, perhaps lower
THE number of prisoners taken by Italians in
the drive on Trieste has been increased to
27,3O2, the War Office announces Of these,
72O are officers.