The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-12-09
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
POOLING AMERICA.


In one of his very best cartoons
Ireland, the great cartoonist, pictures
fat German citizen 'kneeling on a
great pile of food stuffs stolen from
Belgium, France, Rumania, the Uk-
raine, Galicia, Poland and Finland and
the great 1918 crops of Germany, and
loudly calling "Send Hoover, quick
Germany is starving" The splendid
cartoon is labeled: "They have lost
saith in everything but their ability
to fool Americans"
There is a great deal of truth in
this. The Huns lost faith in their
army their kaiser, their navy and
their militarism, but they still have
faith (if we may judge by their ac-
rions) in their ability to fool the Am
erican people We are certainly re-
garded by the Germans as lot of
"softies" and they are playing us for
q nation of suckers
The appeal to feed the German
people and save them from starving
offered to the Americans The appeal
would not have been made had they
not believed us simple enough to
swallow their lies again. With de-
vastated Belgium, France, Serbia and
Rumania, robbed by Germany, de-
manding food from us; with France
unable to feed herself and England in
the same fix; with Italy's food supply
less than half enough for home needs,
the Germans have the effrontery to
ask the American people to feed them
now.
They had expected to carry on the
war another year and there is no
doubt they had enough food for this
purpose stored away in their army
commissaries. They claimed to have
had a fair crop which has just been
harvested, and we know they stole
everything that was not "red hot or
nailed down" in all of the invaded
countries from which they were
driven by the allied armies, yet they
squeal like pig under a gate, that |
they are starving and want to get {
both feet in the trough and crowd out /
the Belgians, French, Rumanians,
English, Italians and Serbs and they
demand that they be fed by the United
States and that the armistice terms
be modified and made easier for them
If the American government con-
tributes one pound of food to the Ger
mans before the people of our allied
and even Austria and Tur-
key are fed first, it will do so over
the protest of 80 per cent of the Am
erican people. AS Darling, another
Of the great cartoonists of the pres
emit day said in one of his very strik-
ing recent cartoons, let Germany, if
she is starving, take her place in
the bread line" She is the last to
.all for food from America. Let her
take her place at the foot of the line.
NJ - Fn
Lloyd George, premier of England,
n a speech Saturday, said that at the
gloomiest part Of the war, when it
seemed that England and France
would have to finish it alone as Rus
ia had collapsed and Italy seemed t
bout to collapse, he cabled President ?
Wilson to send 10000 soldiers to S
france. America responded with n
100000 of the very flower of Am
rican manhood and the war was won. P
5ut these American fighting men 4
we're carried to Europe in British V
transports, guarded by British war s.
hips. Had it not been for England's II
reat navy the war would have been
von by Germany in the first few o
months of the fighting. Had it not b
cen for the heroism of Belgium and T.
rance, Germany woulds have won it ii
inside of six months, but had it not
cen for the American soldiers, Ger al
lany would eventually have won the A
1ar Equal credit is due to all of II
hese nations with which it was an So
onor to be allied.
German Statesmen" and newspap-
Is are loudly announcing that they "
i'll disrupt the allies at the peace a
Inference and have already started al
campaign to cause jealousies be- u
veen England and the United States. =, =,
he poor dupes don't know yet that ii