Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-21
AMERICA NOT GETTING SUPPLIES
TO EUROPE IN SUFFICIENT
QUANTITIES.
MUST SAVE MORE OR GO
UNDER SHORT RATION ORDER
Shortage of Past Three Months Must
Be Made up-Now More Ships than
Careoes. Because OF Lack OF Rail
road Facilities Between West and
Atlantic Seaboard.


has got to eai less, travel less and
generally get down 20 war basis # it
: to escape oCicisl ra;ionins and other
uncomfortable things.
The government IS now figuring on
wAa, imports We AN do without IN
order tha; al tonnage space on ocean
going ships n.@y &c left free to carry
food 20 England and France in sufi-
-:el. vctEanle "a Keep up the morale Oh
those countries and stiN have trans
po-;s;.or Tor a million Of more Amer
scan soldiers and probably twenty
-..-..o2 ;5rs @: munitions, machinery
anE other supplies
ENGLAND has stripped itself to me
oa.e necessities. !: imports nothing
~; FOOD a-G munitions now. and has
therefore been able 10 divert q million
ions Or - 81 ships 20 our service. Il Is
ne; : case o. limiting non essentials
over there. buI Of eliminating them.
Nus: Li-i. Rail Shipments.
Thanks 70 CUR WIDER range OF pro-
6uc,ioa. s seli-inpose6 sea blockade
a.aias. ihe various things, from "a
na-as 70 boishev!k p-eachTnents, Woulo
ne. cause as much deprivation here as
:: does abroad but n addition We are
threatened with al EXTENSION o. the
c,,r,a:l.relt Of non essential shipments
by rail
Actually the trans po-tat.on shortage
IN America has resulted in shift o.
,o- tit-;orr. 50 that We have more SHIPS
available than Ca-goes fo- them. 4He
w. reg
blockade ana The war demands on cars
and Locomotives have choked the rail-
roads so that hundreds Of thousands
OF tons az packing house produtls Az"
millions Of tons Of grain taaI oGsht ~
be IN Europe are still! in ChEcaso AM
farther west
Falling Behind With Food.
For three months we have been -ai
ing behind in oar food shipments -
Europe. This shortage has TO pc haoe
10 in the next few months or Hla'IT's
will become serIou~not only lor oU'
allies but for ourselves.
or,r lob is 70 feed allied Europe. We
can't fall down on that 100, LOT La
tional pride and the necessity o. VIE
,i,e tho war aside. We have gwen d
hostage 10 Europe for the ADEQUATE
performance OF our duty in the shap7
81 a bigger army than this country mas
seen since the civil war
There is still a bar on giving HsUI"
bu, we have more men abroad 'ooa'
than we had IL the United SIa'eS'
Cuba. Porto Rico and the Philippines
when we fought Spain.Tney must 'ahe
not luck with the English. the tTencL-
and the Italians. For the purposes o.
RI war there is only one ARM N
Europe lighting the Germans, and tha'
arm. is dependent on this country LOT
its food.
Too Far to Antipodes.
r,glara hss enough food in Austria
liza and New Zealand 70 i'll the gap
but because she can fetch t"o =.
three cargoes from the United states
IN the time il takes to get one lFon.
he antipodes that food Tn!Sht as wen
be IN the moon for all TIE use ~ ID
to the battling world.
Some day when al the snlps lIat
are now planned evoluts from o!ue
prints into merchant fleets the AUS
1ralian food WILL be bTouGhe 70 our
western coast TO make up fo- what we
send away from our eastern sea5oafoF'
but j,,sr now the world is TOO busy LOT
this. Every ship has got TO 90 It's "
most, and the shortest voyage is the
only one considered. Besides what use
would Il be 70 load up California
| Washington and Oregon with anapo-
dean wheat and beef when our ran
roads can not distribute it,
Big JOB: Clear Railroads.
Our big jo5-bisger than ships FOR
the rr,oment--is TO clear the railroads.
We can do It. trn oaly by cutting
down our food, clothes and iuxuries
| and taking off as much Of our pas
| senger carrying facilities as We can
and leaving the railroads free TO haul