The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-10-04


send transport Of Ose-haIf million men.
But Il cannot ship them r. Below |
Uncle Sam are these words: ut 81 1
impossible for America TO train and /
fit out IN time for the European war a
suitable and sufficiently large army
and provide 1t with the necessary re-
endorsements" The catchIine Of this
section Of the poster Is "Russla's army
Of millions could not down Germany"
and on the skirt Of the Russian sol
dier.s oyercOat are printed these
words: Russia used up altogether
fifteen million men In vain"
On the opposite side Of the poster Is
this catchline: "EngIaud's sea power
and Engiand's merchant marine have
not decided the war :" Below this
line appears huge figure intended TO
represent the English shipping faciii-
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 is q
drawing designed to show Uncle Sam
carrying the United States tonnage IN
der his left arm. The caption above
Uncle Sam reads: "Can America re-
place England on sea!'' On the ship
which Uncle Sam carries Is printed
this inscription: Three million gross
registry tons and below that is an
other inscription which says: eat 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 1918 by more than
/ two to two and a half million tons.
| Our U-boats sink twice as quickly as
| England and America can build."
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 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 is set and
the summer Of 1919 viii see 100000
fighting American men in France. Nor
will there be 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 6S5,O11 tons.
Losses to allied and neutral shipping
combined. from every caIse, for the
last six months, amounted TO 2,0S9. 1893
tons.
The distance from New York TO
England. the Boche points out" COM
ments the bureau of publicity publi-
cation, lis two hundred times greater
than that from England To France
from which he spells Opportunity fol
the German C-boatS. Pitiful is this
boast in face of the facts. Instead Of
the U-boat being an UNCOMFORTABLE
engine of war, as the Hun confidently
expected, it has become the sinking
foe of fishing smacks and other $50
lated craft. The vast army of Liberty
Bond buyers, thirty millions strong
has built an unbroken briuge over the
Atlantic ocean into the heart of the
enemy's Str0nghOldS. Across this
bridge there are streaming our mil
lions of fightinS men, as good as the
world has ever known, munitions and
equipment that have been wrought b!
those back home. whose determination
is that the American fighting man shall
lack nothing that he needs"
As a hack-handed slap at the French
the German propagandists have repro
duced French poster which plead:
with French people TO eat less in or
der that the United States may senC
over more man power. The French
poster pointed out that if every per
son in France would save a hundred
J grams of food day that the American
reinforcements could be increased ;
! division a month. The French catch
. line on this poster was Does France
: want wheat or menu" and the German
! poster remarks also the allies ar,
: now beginning to have their doubts :
! In a further effort to convince tbs
: German people that 1t will be impos
; Sihle for the United States TO trans
: port troops TO France, the German
: section Of the poster says that teI
; tons of freight space are required 10
: every soldier in cfossing the water
The truth is that a soldier require
4 less than One-half this amount o
2 space.
I summing up all the falsehOods whicl
5 the German poster contains, the book
: let says: The War Lord Of Ger
: many may have the futile hope tina
5 his people will devour in the place o
e food. such statements as the fOrego
y ing. Falsehoods, however, are poo
a substitutes and are likely TO aggra
: Nate rather than appease when the de
Iuded people Of Germany learn tina
g every requirement of the AGserical
i soldier will be met by his patriotic an
: unqualified support back home. If