Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-10-04

inscription. America threatens 10
send transport OF one-half million men.
But II cannot ship themI" Below
Uncle sam are these words; ut is
impossible for America to train and
iit out In time for the European war
suitable and sufficiently large army
and provide It with the necessary re-
endorsements" The catchlIne OF this
section Of the poster is ''Russia's army
of millions could not down Germany.
and on the skirt of the Russian sol
dier's overcoat are printed these
words: Russia used up altogether
fifteen million men In vainl"
On the opposite side of the poster u
this catchline: sEngland's sea power
and England's merchant marine have
not decided the war;" Below this
line appears huge figure intended to
represent the English shipping faciti-
ties at the outbreak OF the war, which
bears these words: England went
into the war with twenty million gross
registered tons OF freight space"
Alongside this figure Of ship IL a
drawing designed to show Uncle Sam
carrying the United States tonnage un-
der his left arm. The caption above
Uncle Sam reads: Can America re
place England on scar" On the ship.
which Uncle Sam carries is printed
this inscription: Three million MroSs
registry tons" and below that Is an
other inscription which says: AT the
beginning OF the war America had on
ly tonnage OF three million gross reg
istered tons" Commenting ON these
statements. the poster further declares
america cannot increase her gross
registered tons for 1913 by more than
two to two and a half million tons.
Our U-boats sink twice as quickly as
England and America can buildl"
The answer Of the publicity bureau
| to the two sections OF the poster refer
ring to the transportation OF men and
the building Of ships follows: AT the
moment the bulletin boards OF Ger
many scoffed the possibility Of Amer
lea sending a force to France, there
were already more than million fight
ing men overseas, and transports,
walled about by the American navy de-
flying the cowardly submarines, were
bearing every month hundreds OF
thousands more. The gauge IL @et and
the summer of 1919 will see 100000
fighting American men In France. Nor
will there be a lack Of ships to trans
port and sustain them. The Liberty
Bond buyer Is fast giving to America
a merchant marine that will be the
peer of any In the world. America
launched In July alone 635,0ll tons.
Losses to allied and neutral shipping
combined, from every cause. for the
last six months, amounted TO 2,OS9. 303
tons.
1.-THE distance from New York to
England, the BOche points out" com
ments the bureau Of publicity puhli-
cation, sis two hundred times greater
than that from England to France,
from which he spells Opportunity for
the German U-boats. phlful Is this
boast In face OF the facts. Instead Of
the U-bOat being an ubcOnquetable
engine Of war. as the Hun confidently
expected. lt has become the Sinking
foe OF fishing smacks and other iso-
lated craft. The vast army Of Liberty
S>ond buyers, thirty millions strong,
has built an unhr0ken bridge over the
Atlantic ocean into the heart OF the
enemy's strongholds. Across this
bridge there are streaming our mil.
lions of fighting men. as good as the
world has ever known. munitions and
equipment that have been wrought by
those back home. whose determination
is that the American fighting man shall
lack nothing that he needs.'
As back-handed slap st the French,
the German propagandists have repro
duced a French poster which pleads
with French people 70 eat less In or.
der that the United States may send
over more man power. The French
poster pointed out that II every per.
son In France would save a hundred
! grams Of food day that the American
/: relnf0rcements could be increased a
! division a month. The French catch
. line on this poster was "Does Francs
want wheat or men7" and the German
J poster remarks ALSO the allies are
now beginning 10 have their doubts y
J In a further effort 10 convince the
German people that IL win be lmpos-
; slble for the United States TO trans
) port troops 20 France. the German
: section Of the poster says that ten
2 tons Of freight space are required f0I
! every soldier In crossing the water
The truth In that a soldier requires
4 less than one-half this amount o.
e space.
{ Summing up all the falsehoods which
> the German poster contains, the book
+ let says: "The War Lord Of Ger
: many may have the futile hope thai
; his people will devour in the place d
e food, such statements ~ the foreg0
, ing. Falsehoods. however, are pool
3 substitutes and are likely TO agra
Vate rather than appease when the de
luded people Of Germany learn tina
E every requirement Of the American
d soldier will be met by his patriotic ans
= unqualified support back home. II |
y single soldier required ten tons d