Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-09-27
FARMERS xiii Hun i'm
STARVATION PLAN
WITH Big CROPS

Pinched by Own Hunger, Germans
Watch American Wheat Flow
in Plenty to the Allies
The soil, the two-fisted fighting men
that spring from the SOIL and the un-
conQuerable determination OF the
Americans who I'LL it, are beating the
Germans.
Thrown back from his first rush
across the Marine and held at verdun
by the valiant French, the Huns cast
all the restraints OF humanity and CIV
ilixation to the winds and ushered in
unrestricted submarine warfare with
the boast that England would b
starved In six months.
How nearly they approached success
will form one Of the most gloomy chap
ters In the world war history; how
and why they failed, one of the most
inspiring sections OF the epic chron.
icle.
AMERICA SENDS
FIGHTERS FOOD
True. British and American sea-dogs
hunted the submarine; American ship
builders launched fleets whose sheer
numbers made 1t impossible for the
Hun sub-sea terrors to sink all OF them:
British land CONSUMPTION turned hun.
dreds of thousands OF acres OF parks
and hunting preserves into crop-pro-
ducing areas; Hoover and American
food economy saved millions OF bush.
els Of wheat and shiploads OF meat for
lighting men and civilians In France
and England.
But In the last analysis 1t was the
farm and the farmer OF America that
kept allied hosts on every Western
front in plenty and added despair OF
victory to the pinch OF hunger behind
the Hun lines.
His bumper crops jolted hopes at
Potsdam and Vienna as severely 40 his
lighting sons jolted Teuton generals ct
Cantigny and along the Marine. since
expectations of American crop failure
were based with Germanic com.
placency on carefully plotted cam.
patgns Of propaganda and sabotage in
the United States.
HUN AGENTS
BURN CROPS
The general public is too little aware
of the bitter battles the crop grower
has had to fight to bring his wheat to
harvest.
Burned barns, standing crops, har.
vesters and threshing machines were
only part of the widespread ruin
planned by these fellows OF Boyd,
Won Papen and Won Bernstorff, and In
too many instances their plots were
successful. That more were not was
due only to untiring vigilance which
can never be relaxed while the war
lasts.
New goals, not easy Of attainment,
are placed before the farmer through
the plan for raising an army OF ave-
million Americans to crush Germany
next year.
He will be further handicapped by
the loss of hands to the army and he
must raise greater crops. Plans OF
F., the Department Of Agriculture call for
the increase Of wheat acreage In the
West by as much as 80 per cent
NEW EFFORTS
CALLED FOR
No one doubts that he will rise to
the opportunity for service placed be-
fore him, any more than any one
doubts that he will play his other parts
In the perfectly co-ordinated fighting
machine revealed when America turned
as nation to win the war.
Not the least Of these parts was his
participation In the financing of the
battle, though previous history had
written down much effort to finance
the farmer
Rural districts were uniformly more
prompt than metropolitan are1s In
their response to the Third Liberty
Loan. Honor flags first few from
country fiagstaffs, and those with the
greatest number of honor stripes like
wise
The Third Liberty Loan, the great.
est financial achievement in the his
tory of the United States, and there.
fore in the world, is to be perhaps
doubly eclipsed by the Fourth Liberty
Loan.
The part of the farmer probably will
be as proud.
Buy and Buy and BY and BY Thsrs'll
be no Kaiser!
Liberty Bond or Liberty Bound,
Which Will You Have TT
Put Money in Bonds-not Bonbona,
Bonds Speak Louder than Worda
% Not BE Bond Stacker.
Hook the ka,ser and Buy a Bond.
Help Yankee Doodle Do tho Dee
not.