The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-06-02

!. of the Allies. Our supreme militar.
= duty is to exert all our national en-
. ergies to making Germany's subma
: rine blockade a failure
5 This may not be so Spectacular
, and heroic an enterprise as takint
Vimy Heights or assaulting st
= Quentin, but It would accomplish In
, definitely more in bringing the wal
to sudden end. That is what
Lloyd George means when he insist;
on ships and ships and ships" as
the great need OF the hour. II Is
greatly to the credit of the Washing
ton administration that 1t sees this
point just as clearly. and is prompt
ly acting upon this basis.
America Must Feed
Her Allies.
Americas duty is thus to grow
food and ship IL to England and
France. Hence the nationwide move
ment for the cultivation of all our
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arabic lands. Large wheat fields in
America will be quite as potent in
the war against Germany as muni-
tions factories; and potatoes will
prove just a deadly to the German
trenches as hand-grenades and
bombs.
1
Judging from the newspapers and
magazines, from the activities of ag-
ricultural departments, state and ma
tional, or agricultural colleges, gar
den clubs, oranges. and other organ
izations, the nation has been aroused
to this fact. We shall probably see
this summer an awakening of inter
est in American farming that is with
out parallel in our history. If we
fail to do our duty in raising this
food supply, we shall be damned in
the sight of all men.
We have millions of acres that are
now going to waste. To let these
lie unused, when our allies in Eur
ope are suffering for the food that
spells the victory of civilization and
democracy - certainly Americans
could not be so base as that. Prob
ably the mountains of splendid nu-
tritious food that will be raised by
next fall in the United States will
astound mankind.
In doing this we shall not only be
fighting the battle of mankind, but
we shall be devoting infinite re-
sources for our future wealth. Soma
economists figure that Germany.
should she stop fighting tomorrow.
will be hungry for five years to
come. The food situation all over
the world, when the war ends, will
be acute for long time. This con-
dition will probably solve the "aband-
oned farm" problem in the United
States, for these large stretches of
now waste land, II turned up by the
pillow to meet the present crisis. will
probably find a market that will
keep them going indefinitely.
But this food will not relieve the
situation unless we have the ships
to transport It. How are we to get
these? Our ship yards are now go
ing night and day. building steel YES
sells for the whole world. The other
day Cunarder was launched from
a Portland ship yard, and eight Cum
ard ships have recently been con-
tracted for in Seattle.
Great as is Americas production
of steel. the unusual demand has
heavily drained our resources, and
there is now decided shortage. Tho
of fleet Of steel steam
ships in time to meet the submarine
the curious result of this war. mod
ern in its large aspects as it is, has
b''h W piihb puNh weapons Nhbt
tary science had long since discard
hand-grenade. the bayonet,
the steel helmet, for example. And
now. to supply the ships that shall
save mankind, America finds itself
resorting to the engines used in tho
olden time. About a hundred years
ago, when involved in war with Eng
land. the United States was greatly
Inconvenience by the fact that the
British fleet controlled Lake Erie,
while we had no naval forces in these
waters,
Commodore Perry went to Pres
que Isle. and spent all the summer
at breakneck speed, an
American flotilla. In a period of a
few months this Impoverished fleet
was ready, and Perry sailed over and |
destroyed the enemy. We are at
TO do something like this,
though on a gigantic scale. this wear