Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-10-03

inscription, america threatens to
send transport Of one-half million men.
But 1t cannot ship theml - Below
Uncle Sam are these words: ut is
impossible for America to train and
fit out in time for the European war
suitable and sufficiently large army
and provide 1t with the necessary re-
endorsements" The catchlne 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 overcoat are printed these
words: Russia used up altogether
fifteen million men in yainl p
On the opposite side Of the poster Is
this catchline: "England'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 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 scar 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 u tonnage of three million gross reg
istered tons" Commenting ON these
statements, the poster further declares
America cannot increase her gross
registered tons for 1918 by more than
/ two to two and half million tons.
Our U-boats sink twice as quickly as
England and America can build y
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 force to France, there
were already more than a million fight
ins 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 set and
the summer of 1919 will see 100000
fighting American men in France. Nor
will there be Il 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 G35.011 tons.
Losses to allied and neutral shipping
combined. from every cause. for the
last six months, amounted to 2.0S9 1893
tons.
THE distance from New York to
England. the Boche points out COM
ments the bureau of publicity publi-
cation, "is two hundred times greater
than that from England TO France,
from which he spells Opportunity for
the German U-boats. Piiiful is this
boast in face Of the facts. Instead of
the C-boat being an comparable
engine of war, as the Hun confidently
expected. 1t has become the Sinking
foe of fishing smacks ami other iS0-
lated craft. The vast army of Liberty
Bond buyers. thirty mil! .ons strong,
has built an unbroken bri.Lge over the
Atlantic ocean into the heart of the
enemy's strongholds. Across this
; bridge there are streaming our mil
lions of fighting men. as good as the
equipment that have been wrought by
those back home, whose determination
is that the American fighting man shall
lack nothing that he needs"
As 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 sent
; over more man power. The French
poster pointed out that II every per
son in France would save a hundred
grams of food day that the American
. reinforcements could he increased {
! division a month. The French catch
! line on this poster was docs Franc,
: want wheat or men?' and the German
! poster remarks "Also the allies arr
now beginning to have their doubts =
, In further effort to convince the
= German people that 1t will he impos
: sible for the United States to trans
; port troops to France, the German
? section of the poster says that ter
2 tons of freight space are required fo
: every soldier in crossing the water
The truth Is that a soldier require,
\ less than one-half this amount o
e space.
{ Summing up all the falsehoods whicl
$ the German poster contains, the book
: let says: 1.-THE War Lord Of. Ger
: many may have the futile hope tina
$ his people win devour In the place o
e food, such statements as the forego
y ing. Falsehoods, however, are poo
n substitutes and are likely to aggra
/ Nate rather than appease when the de
luded people of Germany learn tina
G every requirement Of the American
d soldier will be met by his patriotic ant
: unqualified support back home. II