The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-10-01
AMERICA BREASTS
! SWELL PROUDLY At
I GREAT War AIMS
Nothing in History Compares ia
Army of Five Million Men
in France Next Year

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!, The breast OF every American mus
swell within him at contemplation Q
the sheer size of our plans for GU
war part next year.
J Five million men in France!
The nation which for more than
century has sought only to be lef
alone In the West with its Freedom
has reused to the call for help from
its sister democracies on the Eastern
side OF the globe and is pouring
across the Atlantic q mighty stream
OF men and arms, stream 80 great
that history offers nothing In com
parison.
German military autocracy, which
sought to supplant the Liberty
Equality and Justice OF France with
its horrible will to power" under
the doctrine that might is right"
has already found that Right has
hidden sources Of power for self
protection.
The unwelcome lesson OF American
valor, learned by Germany at Can
tigny, Chateau THEORY, and since at
. score Of other fierce battles, has
shown the Hun an inkling Of the
m1ghtiness of right.
AMERICAN VALOR
AWAkENS HUN
For every man on the battle line,
the rudimsnts Of military tactics tell
US, ten men must be behind.
Not all Of tho five million Ameri-
cans between the Channel ports and
the Rhine next year will be in the
battle line. But we at home may
justly consider that all Of France is
our battle line. We must see that
for every man in France, giving his
utmost efforts daily, ready to give
his life, ten men at home are strip
ping their daily lives OF every non
essential effort, dropping every task
that does not help to win the war
With fifty million men at home
guarding the interests of the fighting
men abroad, they cannot fail of sue
cess if those fifty million are active
and not passive in their efforts. II
they are not active, watching every
chance to make war work effective,
denoancing and furnishing every at
tempt at delay or hinder ten million
men in France would be helpless.
FIGHTERS MUST
HAVE BACKING
Five million men in France means
that every resource here at home will
be strained to support them-to give
them food, to give them arms, to
give the wounded care, to pay them
that those dependents they left at
home may live in comfort, to give
them safe transport across and safe
passage home again.
No less authority than Clifford
Pinchot has said recently that one
bird of the population of the United
States is agricultural one-third of ,
he men are farmers.
One-third. therefore, OF whatever
glory comes to US in our crushing OF
lutocracy, will shine in the farm !,
ZONES whose stanchness has been
'ur safeguard. One-thtrd OF any one
t our coordinated war efforts can >
lot be allotted to the farmers any
nore than any other one share to ,
ny other class
The farmer must raise all of the :
Iheat and all of the meat, without
vhich our army, would be helpless. !.
Tut the miller and the packer must :
repare them. The banker must
andle all of the war funds, since he
J the accustomed channel for our
loney, but he cannot provide 1t all.
ARMER HAS Z
WO-FOLD PART
Every man and woman must have
direct share Of our national war
ans. Vast sums Of money come to
lie farmer. Instead of the ordinary p
rms OF investment, stocks and =
'nds, or stocks and mortgages, or +
ore acres or a better house or K
I'm, the farmers money must now
} into Liberty Loans. Il
For fifty years after peace treaties d
I'VE been signed, the great war will B
fought over and over again n
aerever men gather for discussion. IN
10 fierce light OF uncomfortable ~
cts will reveal every angle of the
nduct Of the war at home and
road.
The finger of righteous patriotic
orn will point out every man who
= helped the barbarous Hun by not
lping America to his utmost.
The record of the American farmer
8 been proud thus far, whether i
itten by him at home or by his i
as abroad. The Fourth Liberty /
an gives him new opportunity to |!
'dge his full strength toward Il
Glory. /