Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-10-04

Uncle Sam are these words: at is
impossible for America 10 train and
fit out in time for the European war q
suitable and sufficiently large army
and provide it with the necessary re-
endorsements" The catchliDe of this
section Of the poster is "Russia's army
of millions could not down Germany"
and on the skirt of the Russian SOL
| dier's oyercoat are printed these
words: Russia used up altogether
fifteen million men Ia yain!"
On the opposite side of the poster Is
this catehline: "EngIand's sea power
and England's merchant marine have
not decided the war !" Below this
line appears a huge figure intended to
represent the English shipping facili-
| 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 a ship is
drawing designed to show Uncle Sam
carrying the United States tonnage I'M
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 tonnage of three million gross reg
istered TONS" Commenting on these
statements the poster further declares
America cannot increase her gross
registered tons for 1913 by more than
two to 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 scoffed the possibility of Amer
lea sending a force to France, there
were already more 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 ~et and
the summer of 1919 will see 100000
fighting American men in France. Nor
will there be lack of ships TO trans |
port and sustain them. The Liberty |
Bond buyer is fast giving to America |
a merchant marine that will be the |
peer of any in the world. America |
launched in July alone 635, oil tons.
Losses to allied and neutral shipping |
combined, from every cause, for the
last six months, amounted to 20S9, 1893
tons.
1.-The distance from New York to
the Boche points out" COM
ments the bureau of publicity publ
cation, lis two hundred times greater
than that from England TO France,
from which he spells Opportunity for
he German U-boats.' Piiiful Is this
BOAST in face of the facts. Instead of
he U-boat being an uLconquelable
engine of war, as the Hun confidently
expected, it has become the sinking
zoe of fishing smacks hcNl other isO-
ated craft. The vast army of Liberty
tond buyers, thirty millions strong,
las built an unbroken bridge over the
Atlantic ocean into the heart of the
strongholds. Across this
ridge there are streaming our mil
ions of fighting men, as good as the
world has ever known, munitions and
quipment that have been wrought by |
hose back home, whose determination
5 that the American fighting man shall
ack nothing that he needs"
AS a back handed slap at the French,
he German propagandists have repro {
uced "a French poster which pleads
nth French people TO eat less in or I
er that the United States may send !
yer more mans power. The French t
oster pointed out that II every per :
on in France would save hundred 7
rams of food a day that the American I
could be increased c
vision a month. The French catch
ne on this poster was "Does France r
ant wheat or menu and the German y
oster remarks ALSO the allies are d
DIV beginning TO have their doubts - n
In a further effort TO convince the c,
erman people that IL will be impos- c.
BILE for the United States to trans c,
,rt troops TO France. the German 3,
ction of the poster says that ten
ms of freight space are required for
cry soldier in crossing the water.
ne truth is that a soldier requires
SIS than one-half this amount OF
ace. III
Summing up all the falsehoods which u
e German poster contains, the book
! says: "The War Lord Of Ger III
any may have the futile hope that ri
: people VIII devour In the place Of 81
I'd, such statements as the fOrego- w
:. Falsehoods, however, are poor Z;
bstitutes and are likely to aggra- IN
re rather than appease when the de- gu
led people of Germany learn that MI
cry requirement of the American
der will be met by his patriotic and TO
qualified support back home. If I'm
Igle soldier required ten tons of III
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