The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-10-04
SWELL PROUDLY AT
GREAT war AIMS
Nothing in History Compares to
Army OF Five Million Men
in France Next Year.

Army OF Five Million Men
in France Next Year.
The breast al every American must
swell within him at contemplation OF
the sheer size OF our plans for our
war part next year.
Five million men In France!
The nation which for more than
century has sought only to be left
alone In the West with Its Freedom,
has reused 10 the call for help from
its sister dcmocracies on the Eastern
side of the globe and ~ pouring
across the Atlantic mighty stream
OF men and arms. a stream 80 great
that history offers nothing in com.
parison
German military autocracy. which
songht to supplant the Liberty.
Equality and Justice" OF France with
It's horrible will to power" under
tho doctrine that might IL 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 Thierry. and since at
o score OF other fierce battles. has
shown tho Hun an inkling OF the
mightiness OF right.
AMERICAN VALOR
AWAKENS HUN
For every man on the battle line,
the rudiments OF military tactics tell
u. ten men must be behind.
Not all Of the five million Ameri-
cans between the Channel ports and
the Rhine next year will be In the
battle line hut we at home may
Justly consider that all Of France IS
our battle line. We must zee 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 tho interests Of the fighting
men abroad. they cannot fail of sue
cess II those nifty MILL N are active
and not passive in their efforts. II
they are not active. watching every
chance 10 make war work effective.
denouncing and Furnishing every at.
tempt at delay or hinder. ten million
men In France would be helpless.
FIGHTERS MUST
HAVE BACKING
Ffve million men In France means
that every resource hero 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 homo again.
No less authority than Clifford
Pinchot has said recently that one
third OF tho population OF the United
States IL agricultural one.third OF
tho men are farmers.
ono-third. therefore. OF whatever
glory comes to US In our crushing OF
autocracy. will shine In the farm
homes whose atanchness has been
our safeguard. One-third OF any one
OF our co-ordinated war efforts can
not be allotted to the farmers any
moro than any other one share to
any other class.
Tho farmer must raise all OF the
wheat and all OF the meat. without
which our army would be helpless
But tho miller and the packer must
prepare them. The banker must
handle all OF the war funds. since he
Ia the accustomed channel for our
money. but no cannot provide II all.
FARMER HAS
TWO-FOLD PART
Every man and Woman must have
direct share Of our national war
loana. Vast sums OF money come to
tho farmer, Instead OF the ordinary
forms Of investment. stocks and
bonds. OF stocks and mortgages. or
moro acres or better house or
barn. tho farmers money must now
20 into Liberty Loans.
For fifty years after peace treaties
have been signed. the great war win
DO fought over and over again
wherever men gather for discussion.
The fierce light OF uncomfortable
facts win reveal every angle OF the
conduct Of the war at home and
abroad
The finger Of righteous patriotic
scorn will point out every man who
has helped the harharous Hun by no,
helping America to his utmost.
The record Of the American farmer
has been proud thus far. whether
written by him at homo or by his
sons abroad. The Fourth Liberty
Loan gives him new opportunity to
pledge his full strength toward
Victory.
- UYA