The Monticellonian., 1918-10-04

h represent the English shipping faefl- 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 drawing designed to show Uncle Sam carrying the United States tonnage un- 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: At the beginning of the war America had on- ly 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 1918 by more than fNo te two and 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 seoffed the possibility of Amer iea sending u force to France, there were already moro 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 will see 100000 fighting American men in France. Nor will there be I lack of ships to trans port and sustain them. The Liberty Bond buyer is fast giNing to America 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.
 "The distance from New York to England, the Roche points out" com ments the bureau Of publicity publi- cation, "is two hundred times greater than that from England to France. from which he spells Opportunity for the German U.boats. Pitifui is this boast in face of the facts. Instead of the Uboat being aD unconquerable 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 our mill 1 Hons of fighting men, as good as 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 back handed slap at the French, the German propagandists have repro duced 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 q hundred grams of food day that the American endorsements could be increased division month. The French catch line on this poster was Docs France want wheat or men?" and the German poster remarks Also the allies are now beginning to have their doubtsf'
 In further effort to convince the German people that it 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 soldier requires less than one-half this amount of space.
 Summing ID all the falsenoods which the German poster contains, the book let says: "The War Lord of Ger many may have the futile hope that his people will devour in the place of food, such statements as the forego- ing. Falsehoods, however, are poor substitutes and are likely to aggra- Hnte rather than appease when the de Indcd people of Germany learn that every requirement of the American soldier will be met by his patriotic and unqualified support back home. If single soldier required ten tons of freight space. it would be given him | But the truth is he requires less than onc-half of that.
 As for Germany's statement that even if the United States built from two and a half million gross regis tered tons in 1918, it would not mean dellverance for the allies, no further comment is needed than that by July of this year the 2,0o0.000-ton mark has been passed. If further refu- tatIon of the Hun boast of his .U-boat prowess were needed. it might he stated that less than 300 American soIo CTS have lost their lives In the present war as result of U-boat at- i tacks
 Closing the booklet is this striking quotation from Secretary McAdoo: ''The Fourth Liberty loan is the bar rag" which will precede the victorious l thrust of our army"