Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-10-03


Inscription. "Amrri.a threatens u
seh transport ri one-haii million men.
En; il cabinet ship rheiu" Below
tEci- sam are ;i..se woyii. 1T j.
Impossible for America - train Ani
hit I" in time for the European a,,r a
suitable and sufficiently large army
Ind provide II with the necessary re
enfarcements." The cutchlin. of this
section If the poster Is "RnsS,a'> army
Of millions could mot down Germany
dier's Overc"at are printed these
words: Russia used up altogether
fifteen million men iii vain"
IN the opposite side of the poster i
and E~ngland's merchant marine hay-
not decided The war" Below this
line appears II huge figure intended tn
represent the English shipping facili.
ties al the outbreak of the war, which
bears these words: "Engiand went
into the war with twenty million g-pSs
registered tons of freight space
Alongside this figure Of ii ship Is 4
drawing designed to show Uncle am
carrying the United States tonnage Va
der his left arm. The caption above
Uncle sam reads: Gan .Ainerita re-
place England on sea- ON the ship
which Uncle Sam carries is printed
this inscription "rhree million gross
registry tons" and below thai i an
| other inscription which Says: M Ia"
beginning of the war America had on
ly II tonnage al three million gross reg
istcred tons Commenting On these
statements, the poster further declare,
America cannot increase her gross,
registered tons for 1918 by more than
two II two and ii half million tons.
Our t.hoatS sink twice ~ quickly as
England and America can build,
The answer of llie publicity buroau
to the two sections nj tn" poster refer
ring I" the transportation of men and
the building Of ships follows: AT th1
moment the bulletin boards Of Ger
many Scottta the possibility Of Amer.
lea Srndiug Il fore" Ia France, thcr"
We're already more than "A million Eight
ing lurn overseas, and TRANSPORTS.
walled about Ivy In" American navy de
fying the coWariiy submarines, were
bearing every month hundreds ri
thousands more. Th" gauge is SET and
the suzanne of 1919 will see 4.tFt1.t hHl
fighting American men in France. Nol
will there BE- Il lack Of ships 10 trans
port ana sustain them. The Liberty
Bond buyer is fast giving ~ America
a merchant marine thar will he The
peer Of any in the world, America
launched in July alone G%1,oll tons.
Losses to allied and ncutral shipping
combined. from every cause, for Tho
last six months, amounted 10 @,nS1,:" =
tons.
THE distance from New York tC
England. the Euche points out, com
ments the bureau Of publicity publl
cation, is two hundred times greater
than that from England to France
from which lie spells opportunity fol
the Germnn U-bouts. pitifu! Is thi:
boast in face of the facts. Instead O
the U-buat being an u~nconquarabi,
engine Of war, as the Hun contidentl,
expected, it has become the Slinkin:
foe Of fishing snackS and other iso
lated craft. The vast array of Liberty
Bond buyers, thirty millions strong
has built an unhroktn bridge over I'll,
Atlantic ocean into the heart OF The
euemy's strongholhs. Across ihi:
bridge there are streaming our mil
Lions Of fighting men, as good rs tn,
world has ever known, munitions an'
equipment that have been wrought b.
those back home, whose det"rminatio!
is ,ha, the Americans fighting man shall
lack nothing that h. needs
AS Il back.hiuded slap at the French
the German propa@antists have repro
duceh Il French poster which plead
with French people 10 eat less in o.
,er that the United States may sen
over more man power. Tie Frenc.
J. Ster pointed out that if every pei
. son IN France would say n hundre
: grams of food a day that the America,
rpinforceMents could be increased
division a month. The French catch
; line on this poster was Does Franc
want wheat or mcn?" and the Germa
poster remarks also the allies ar
= now beginning to have their doubts
? In n further effort to convince tn
= German people that IT will he impos
Sible for the United States to trans
port troops to France, the Grrma
section of the poster says that to
tons OF freight space are required 10
every soldier in crossing the watel
The truth Is that n soldier require
less than onc-half this amount G
space.
Summing up all the f%alschoodS white
$ the German poster contains, The t"ol
let says: ''rhr War Lord of Gel
+ many may have the futile hope thH
$ his people viii devour In the place {
G food. such statements as the foreg'
y ing. F~alsehoods, however, are poe
u substitutes and are likely 70 aggri
t. >ofr %rntler than nUpcnS when the Il,