Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1918-02-28


on that island. When Captain
Symmes learned of the cholera he
Immediately gave up all his hopes
and purposes for the captured ship
and set it free with every person on
board.
Contrast this if you will with the
conduct of the German submarine
that sank the steamer Belgian
Prince. The captain of this subma--
rine not only sank the Belgian
Prince but destroyed the lifeboats of
the sinking vessel with axes. When
survivors climbed upon the hull of
his submarine, he and his sailors
took away their lifebelts and even
their clothes from them and then he
and his sailors went into the sub
marine and closed their matches and
submerged, leaving the helpless vic
Tins to drown in the cold waters of
mid-Ocean."
War Situation Serious.
After recounting the motives that
impel the United States to wage the
war, DR.. Culbertson said:
THE war situation at present is a
serious one. If Germany can break
thru the lines of heroes on the west
ern front, the war may be carried to
our own Atlantic seaboard.
"One of the biggest factors, and
perhaps the deciding factor in this
war, is the question of food.
THE seas are sown with German
submarines, and it is easier for Ger
many to starve our Allies and our
own soldiers at the front, than it is
for US to starve Germany. Germany
may be hungry but she will not
starve. The farms of France are
producing barley half as much as
they were producing in the year
1913.
"One reason for the decreased pro-
duction since the beginning of the
war has been the conditions of eli
mate, for the year 1916 was one Of
was concerned, in the agricultural
son is the withdrawal of experienced
men from the farms in order that
they might go into the trenches,
leaving the cultivation of the soil to
inexperienced women and children
and feeble aged men. Another rea-
son is the lack Of proper farm ma
chinery. Those who have come from
France recently, tell Of the heroic
efforts of the French women to cul-
tivate the fields, and describe them
hitching themselves to the plows,
working and toiling over the fields
with old fashioned hoes, or even
creeping on their knees painfully
along, tending the newly planted
crops.
I'm her first attack upon France,
Germany captured and carried off g.
100000 French cattle, at the very
time when the burden was thrown
upon the unconquered portions of
France of feeding millions of refu-
gees from Belgium and the con-
quered portions of her own land.
I'm the effort to meet this demand
for food, all of the nations Of Europe
as we'll as our own country, have
been killing of their herds, that is,
destroying their capital stock in cat
tie. This means serious condition
not only today but for several years
after the war is over.
"The Russian Revolution was
caused primarily by hunger rather
than by political ideas. We must send
food to Europe II our boys and our
associates in the war are to win
and because of the shortage of ships
it is necessary to send that food in
the most concentrated form posi-
BILE. That means, wheat and meat and
fats and sugar."
Speaking further about health con-
ditions in Europe as related to their
food supplies, the speaker added:
M 1lyhQ ~
fare means to man suffering from
tuberculosis? 1t is murder. Many
of these tubercular men were cap
tured by the Germans. The food of
a German prison camp is not suftici-
ent to sustain life in a healthy man,
let alone to support man suffering
from tuberculosis and needing the
most nourishing food. In the early
days of the war the French women
put up packages of food to send thru
neutral agencies to their husbands or
sons or sweethearts, who were In
German prison camps. In the first
year of the war these were good
sized packages. AS the war went on,
when the terrible grip of hunger
took hold upon the land, these pack
ages grew smaller and smaller. The
women of France never complained,
they never will complain; they send
what they are able to send, that is
all.
I'm France the shortage Of sugar
is so great that no one is allowed to
buy more than one pound per
month per person and they cannot
always secure even this amount. In
our country the average ordinary
consumption Of sugar is between 85
and 80 pounds per year per person.
while in France the utmost that the
people are allowed to buy is III q
pounds per year per person.
Your Lttle Girl IA Bread Line
.Over In Europe people areahlI-
cont,aasd o Passs Four