The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-20
FARM Coin, CROPS
and FIGHTING SONS
AID WINNING WAR
ShipIoads of Bacon a Mere Item
In Procession Of Food to
Fighters, Civilians

Fighters, Civilians
Nowhere has appeared more sue.
cinct reminder Of the enormous re-
sources of the American farm and the
farmers instant readiness to meet
any war demands than brief dis.
patch from London recently announc.
ing the suspension Of the ration limit
! on bacon.
Owing to the accumulation Of stocks
of 100000 pounds of bacon from
America, the dispatch said, the ration
ing of bacon would be abandoned for
the time.
Since this enormous stock was for
civilian requirements and probably a
much greater quantity had been safe
ly landed for allied army needs it
does not require extreme imagination
to visualize the long procession Of
cargo ships which has steamed across
with this one item of the food sup
ply.
All the cargo space of from eight
to twelve freighters of. average size
would be required to transport g..
100000 pounds.
WHEAT GROWN
DESPITE SABOTAGE
Despite the burning Of grain ele-
vators, the torpedoing Of wheat ships,
and sabotage and arson in the grain
fields Of the country, the American
farmer has gloriously played his war
part by producing sufficiently big
crops to feed the allied world, as his
sons have brought fear in to the
hearts of the enemy at Cantigny and
Chateau Thierry and in the Rheims
scissors battle.
Now we read that others besides
Won Kuehlmann believe that Germany
cannot win by force Of arms, as
those Germans not dupes of the prop
aganda-fed German press already
knew that England could not be
starved by Won Tirpitz' ruthless sub
marines.
But far from being satisfied with
this major part in winning the war,
the farmer has played liberal part
in financing the struggle. Last spring,
with seed and implements to buy,
and all the pre-harvest expense of
wages and maintenance, not an agri-
cultural district in the west failed to
meet or oversubscribe it's quota of
the Third Liberty Loan.
FARMERS FIRST
In LIBERTY LOAN
Oregon, almost purely an agricul-
tural and stock-raising state, was the
first in the district to announce it's
quota exceeded.
The farming districts were uni
formly more prompt in meeting
their assigned obligation than were
the metropolitan districts where
banks and factories were concerned.
With the coming of the Fourth
Liberty Loan, which will overshadow
any previous financial triumph of the
United States by two to one, the
farmers part should be relatively
easier since ne now has turned his
matured crops into cash.
The Fourth Liberty Loan, calling
for twice as much as any Of the |
previous war funds. all of which were
epochs in the country's history, will |
show the United States really buck.
ling down to business.
4TH LOAN CALLS
FOR FULL EFFORT
Despite our present training in
in nothing less than six
figures, the Fourth Liberty Loan is
a huge sum and will require long,
strong pull from every citizen If it
is to be accomplished in three weeks,
from September 20 to October 10,
allotted.
There is no more doubt of the full
fillment Of the loan on schedule time
than there is that the American army
will throw Won Hindenburg and Lud-
endorff back across the Rhine.
And as surely as tens of thousands
Of the bravest of American youth
will lose their lives in the fierce
combats in which the Hun will be
forced backward out of France, Just
20 surely will the raising of the great
Liberty Loans not be accomplished
without every American marshalling
The last dollar of his resources, and
abating every unnecessary expendi-
lure.
six months Of war among the
great powers will bankrupt the
world" said economists before All
gust, 1914.
Now, with the Allied Powers pre-.
,aring to end the war in its sixth
'e'~ ..-. of their ~rries is
inanca 80.