Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-10-04

But it cannot ship them" Below
Uncle Sam are these words: 1T is
impossible for America 10 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 %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 vain"
ON the opposite side Of the poster Is
this catchlme: "England's sea power
and England's merchant marine have
not decided the war!' Below this
line appears a huge figure intended to
represent the English shipping facili-
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 Il ship is Il
drawing designed to show Uncle SAM
| carrying the United States tonnage I'M
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 gross
registry tons" and below that is an
| other, inscription which says: AT the
beginning of the war America had on
~ a 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 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
ica sending u force to France, there
| were already more than q 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 will see 100000
lighting American men in France. Nor
u-ilI fhnpn hn a lnoE IF ching RI FRO n l..
port and sustain them. The Liberty
Bond buyer is fast giving to America
q merchant marine that will be the
peer of any in the world. America
launched in July alone 635,011 tons.
Losses to allied and neutral shipping
combined, from every cause, for the
last six months, amounted to 2,0S9,393
tons.
1.-The distance from New York to
England, the Boche points out COM
ments the bureau of publicity publ
cation, lis two hundred times greater
than that from England to France,
from which he spells Opportunity for
the German U-boats.' Pitiful Is this
boast in face of the facts. Instead Of
engine of war, as the Hun confidently
expected, it has become the sinking
foe of fishing smacks and other iso-
lated craft. The vast army Of Liberty
Bond buyers, thirty millions strong,
has built an unbroken bridge over the
Atlantic ocean into the heart of the
enemy's stronghOlds. Across this
bridge there are streaming Il mil
lions of fighting men, as good rs 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 Il back-handed slap at the French,
the German propagandists have repro
duced Il French poster which pleads
with French people to eat less in or
der that the United States may send
over more man power. The French
poster pointed out that If every per
son in France would save a hundred
grams of food a day that the American
reinforcements could be increased Il
division a month. The French catch.
line on this poster was Does France
want wheat or men?" and the German
poster remarks ALSO the allies are
now beginning to have their doubts ~
Tn q furtha, offart m cnnyipcn tbo
German people that 1t will be impos-
sible for the United States to trans
port troops to France, the German
section of the poster says that ten
tons of freight space are required for
every soldier in crossing the water.
The truth IS that a soldier requires
less than 0ne-half this amount of
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 that
his people will dcvour in the place OF
food, such statements as the forego-
ing. ~Falsehoo1s, however, are poor
substitutes and are likely to aggra.
yate rather than appease when the de-
luded people of Germany learn that
every requirement of the American
soldier will be met by his patriotic and
unqualified support back home. II a
single soldier required ten tons OF
freight space, 1t would be given him