The Coconino sun., 1918-03-29

been a crime against civilization and against our an- cestors who gave their lives in order that might be free.
 For two years and more we were lulled to sleep by German propaganda We held to a neutrality that made ashamed that made every red booded American deep down in his heart apologize for the human race for those things which outraged mans every of decency fair play and humanity. There came day when awoke genuinely alarmed at the peril which confronted We have to know that from the day of the invasion of Belgium, the German lords plan led onward bloody fields westward with slow but steady strides to invasion of our shores.
 Aroused at last from our lethargy, patience ceased to be longer virtue, further endurance cowardice submission to Prussian demands slavery.
 So we came into the war for self-defense. So now as President Wilson says "We fighting truly for for the liberty and sefgovenment of the United States as the war of our own Revolution had to be fought over again. and every in every business in the United States must know but this tme that his whole future lies in the balance
 It is our lives liberty property and happiness that at stake! If any has idea that fight ing others battles not our oWn the sooner he gets away from that idea the better it will be for him. the better it will be for all of us.
 The immediate duty of America is to send men and to the batefeds of Europe to help France and England win the war before their strength is further depleted and the brought to America It is plain duty to fight in sefdefense and for and with friends while have hem and to the end that there may be
 "We are as nation in the presence of great task which demands supreme sacrifice and endeavor of every
 We should get it out of heads that the only way in which show patriotism that the only way in which ourselves is to soldiers for to the soldiers of us must at home This will be long war, and against the millions of men that Germany is massng the western front mil lions of must be opposed We must prepare for days weeks months and years of struggle of suffering and of sacrifice, the like of which the world has This is life and death struggle which have entered, determined to establish for all that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth" We have not yet fully prehended the magnitude of the conflict in which engaged nor realized that private personal b- a-ty ic in fha icsup Wp n1uStr for tomorrow it will be too ate
 The demands of our Allies and our troops for labor and material prodigous that they only be met by the most rigid thrift and economy which must all practice if fighting to be properly clothed fed and equipped.
 We must not only at every point, but loan the money saved to the government. Liberty loans and and by investing in them you will help the soldier boys and yourselves at the same time
 Why are we so slow to appreciate the facts? Why will learn only at the cost of our blood and treasure and not from the experiences of others that food will win the war? Do understand that the combined crops of necessary foods in Great Britain Italy, France and Bel gum last year totaed less than onehaf their need eav ing shortage of more than billion and quarter of bushels to be furnished them from outside or more than three million bushels in excess of our own surplus? Do grasp the fact that the people of the United States adopting wheat and meat rons because of the food shortage in four countries whose combined population is less than onethrteenh of the world Do what this means? Do realize that in this situation there is terrible picture of world nearer to famine than before?
 Facing an alarming decrease in sources of food which should have increased we also face stagnaton of due also to the Famine is not predicted alone upon lack of food but upon lack of proper kind of food We must food in order to supply Allies with the subsistence they need in these their days of privaton and distress. We must them in order to