The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-12-05
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GERMANY WILL NOT sTARVE

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There is no particular occasion fol
sympathetic folk to distress themselve
over the reported danger that a large
number of German citizens are in dire
need of something to eat. Neither il
there any occasion for the unrelenting to
fear that we are going to coddle the
Germans by feeding them while our
friends go hungry.
In the first place, Germany will not
get much American food this winter
and in the second place, she probably
will not need it. In his dispatch from
Berlin, published yesterday, Mr.. Green
valid tells of the excellent meals he has
been able to get in the Berlin capital,
and Mr. James, writing at Treves, finds
the populace of that city sleek and well
fed
throughout the war exercised positive
genius for keeping itself fed 1t may be
assumed that the country has never
allowed itself to be without reserve
supply of food The Germans expected
TO fight through this winter, and they
have food reserve laid by for that pur-
pose. The army food reserve alone must
be very large
Germany will not Starve this winter.
Cries of distress sent out since the end
of hostilities are not corroborated by
facts, and seem to have been intended
for political and diplomatic purposes.
The Germans will have rather an easier
sine than last winter, and while there
will be some distress, it will be nothing
in comparison to what Russia, Austria
and the Balkan countries must undergo.
After while the United States will
be sending food to Germany, but it will
not be until after all our allies and the
Eeedy neutrals have been supplied There
IS no intention of pampering Our enemies.
-Spokesman-Revie
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Major E. A. Smith, the well-known
editor of farm papers, has just returned
from Washington D. c., where he was
called with two score other farm paper
editors to discuss with Secretary of Agri-
culture Houston, farm topics and arrange
for cooperative work for greater farm
production after the war. Major Smith
complains that the only agricultural |
feature Secretary Houston and his |
assistants know anything about is cotton,
which is grown in Is of the 4S states of |
the Union, and is getting all of the at
tention and assistance from the agricu-
tura1 department. What that depart
ment, as well as several other depart
ments at Washington needs, is a few
live men from northern states who know
something about wheat. oats, corn, bar
ley, peas and other crops than cotton.
The present administration is top
heavy" with men from the solid south
and they are doing much to discrcdit
President Wilson's otherwise splendid
The south is all right
when it comes to producing cotton, mig
gers and democratic votes, but the nation
cannot live on these alone. 1t wants
linked ration with a few other prod i
ucts along with those mentioned
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General Pershing, who commanded
he American troops when they helped
so materially to win the war is a repub-
lean. What would the people OF the 4
United States and Of other countries have +
aid if few democrats in congress had Z
lone everything in their power to dis
redit General Pershing at home and
broad just at the time when he was =
loing such splendid and important work
n the closing days of the WARP Yet they
would have done nothing worse, had
hey done this, than few republicans
re trying to do with President Wilson
vhen he is starting on the most impor-
mt mission any president ever at
-mpted. They are trying to discredit
i'm at home and abroad and make it
npossib1e for him to accomplish the
ork he has undertaken for the good Of
mcrica and the world Such actions
re despicable, whether done by repub-
cans, democrats, socialists or bolshe-
sts. They deserve the severest con-
Farmers are again assured that the
ice of $40 per bushel for wheat on -