The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-10-04

! send transport of 0ne-half million men.
| But II cannot ship them" Belo"
| Uncle Sam are these words 1T II
| impossible for America to train ana
! III out In time for the European war a
suitable and sufficiently large army
| and provide Ii with the necessary re-
| endorsements" The cntchilne OF thlS
section of the poster Is "Hussln's army
of millions could not down Germany
and on the skirt Of the Russian sol
! dier's overcoat are printed ih"St
words: "liussia used M altogether
fifteen million men In vain"
ON the opposite side Of the poster Is
this catchine: "Englands sea power
| aud EnglAnd's merchant marine nave
NOT decided the war;" Below tins
| line appears huge figure Intended 10
| represent the English shipping taclii-
| lies ut the outbreak Of the war. WHICH
bears these words England wehi
into the war with twenty million gross
registered tons Of freight space.
Alongside this figure Of snip Is
drawing designed 10 show Uncle sam
| carrying the United States tonnage u'i-
der his left arm The caption above
| Uncle sam reads. Can America re-
place England on scar ON the snip
which Uncle Sam carries u printed
this Inscription: Three million gross
registry tons" and below that Is an
other inscription which says Al Tue
beginning of the war America had on
Is Il tonnage of three million gross reg
lstcred tons Commenting on lhese
statements. the poster further declaIe7
America cannot increase her gross
registered tons for 1918 by more than
two to two and hnlf million TONS.
our u-boats snk twice rs quickly as
England and America can build
The answer of the publicity bureau
to the two sections of the poster REFER
ring 10 the transportation of men anu
the building of ships follows: AT the
moment the bulletin boards of Ger
many scoffed the possibility or Amer
lea sending force to France, there
were already more than million heht-
Ing men overseas and trhhsports,S
walled about by the American navy he
fylng the cownrdly submarines, were
herring every month hundreds of
thousands more. The gauge Is set and
the summer Of 1910 will see 4,WODO
lighting American men In France. Nor
viii there be II lack of ships to trans
port and sustain them. The Liberty
Bond buyer is fast giving TO America
merchant marine that will be the
peer of any In the world. America
launched In July alone G3o.0l1 tons.
Losses to allied and neutral shipping
combined, from every cause, for the
last six months, amounted to 20S9,39
tons.
"Thc distance from New York to
England the Boche points out COM
ments the bureau of publicity publ
cation, is two hundred times greater
than that from England to France,
from which he spells Opportunity for
the German U-boats.' Pltiful Is this
boast In face of the facts. Instead of
the U-boat being an unconquerable
engine Of war, as the Hun confidently
expected 1t has become the sinking
foe of fishing smacks and other iso-
lated craft. The vast army OF Liberty
Bond buyers, thirty millions strong,
has built an unbroken bridge over the
Atlantic ocean into the heart of the
enemy's strongholds. Across this
bridge there are streaming our mil
lions of fighting men, ms good as the
world has ever known, munitions and
equipment that have been wrought by
those back home, whose determination
Is That the American lighting man shall
lack nothing TINT he needs
As II back. handed slap at the French,
the German propagandists have repro
duced French poster which pleads
with French people to eat less in or
der that the United States may send
over more man power. The French
poster pointed out that II every per-
son In France would save hundred
| grams of food Il day that the American
| relnforeements could be Increased II
| division month. The French catch
! line on this poster was Does France
want wheat or menu" and the German
poster remarks Also the allies are
now beginning To have their doubts"
In further effort Ia convince the
German people TINT II viii be impos-
sihle for the United States To trans
port troops tn France, tire German
section of the poster says that ten
tons of freight space are required for
every soldier In crossing the water.
Tho truth is that soldier requires
less than oue-half this amount of
space.
Summing up nil the falsehoods which
the German poster contains the hook
let says THE War Lord of Ger
many may have the futile hope that
his people viii. deyour In the place OF
food. such statements rs the forego
Ing. FalSehoods. however, nre poor
substitutes and are likely 10 aggra
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