Imperial Valley press., 1918-10-08

UAO WY IuSy AdAcO, ONc VI IAc AAoSS
inspiring sections Of the epic chron-
icle.
AMERICA SENDS
FIGHTERS FOOD
True, British and American sea.dogs
hunted the submarine; American ship
builders launched fleets whose sheer
numbers made it impossible for the
Hun sub.sea terrors to sink all Of them;
British land conscription turned hun
dreds Of thousands of acres Of parks
and hunting preserves into crop-pro-
ducing areas; Hoover and American
food economy saved millions of bush
els of wheat and shiploads Of meat for
fghting men and civilians in France
and England.
:, But in the last analysis 1t was the
farm and the farmer of America that
kept allied hosts on every Western
front in plenty and added despair of
victory to the pinch of hunger behind
the Hun lines.
His bumper crops jolted hopes at
Potsdam and Vienna as severely as his
fighting sons jolted Teuton generals at
Cantigny and along the Marne, since
expectations of American crop failure
were based with Germanic COM
placency on carefully plotted cam
paigns of propaganda and sabotage in
the United States.
HUN AGENTS
BURN CROPS
The general public is too little aware
of the bitter battles the crop grower
has had to fight to bring his wheat to
harvest.
Burned barns, standing crops, har-
vesters apd threshing machines were
only q part Of the widespread ruin
planned by these fellows of Boyd.
Won Papen and Won Bernstorff, and in
too many instances their plots were
successful. That more we're not was
due only to uhtiring vigilance which
can never be relaxed while the war
lasts.
New goals. not easy of attainment.
are placed before the farmer through
the plan for raising an army of five
million Americans to crush Germany
next year.
He will be further handicapped by
the loss of hands to the army, and he
must raise greater crops. Plans of
the Department af Agriculture call for
the increase OF wheat acreage in the
West by as much as so per cent.
NEW EFFORTS
CALLED FOR
No one doubts that he will rise to
the opportunity for service placed be-
fore him, any more than any one
doubts that he will play his other parts
in the perfectly co-ordinated fighting
machine revealed when America turned
as a nation to win the war.
Not the least Of these parts was his
participation in the financing of the
battle, though previous history had
written down much effort to finance
the farmer.
Rural districts were uniformly more
prompt than metropolitan areas in
their response to the Third Liberty
Loan. Honor flags first few from
country fiagstaffs, and those with the
greatest number of honor stripes like.
wise.
a The Third Liberty Loan, the great
est financial achievement in the his
tory of the United States, and there.
fore in the world, is to be perhaps
doubly eclipsed by the Fourth Liberty
Loan.
The part of the farmer probably will
We as proud.
Buy and Buy and BY and BY There'll
be no Kaiser!
Liberty Bond or Liberty Bound,
Which viii You Have IL?
Put Money In eonds-not eonbons.
Bonds Speak Louder than Words.
Do Not 3. . Bond Stacker. 8,
Hook the Kaiser and Buy a Bond.
Help Yankee Doodle Do the Dee.
pot.
Pay His Way to st. Helena on
Bonds.
Heip Boom the Loan to Doom the
kaissr!
A Man Who Won't Lend 10 the
kalssr's Friend!
The More Bonds You Buy the Fewer
noys viii Dlel
II You Can't Fight, Your Money
Can.
Frssmsn Buy Bonds; sIaves Wear