Show FARMERS K U flUN Sf ARV PLAN pLiS I S WOTh CROPS Pinched by Own Hunger Germans Germane Watch American Wheat Flow Flow- in plenty to the Ames Allies Thes The soil soil the two the two fisted fighting me men that spring from the soil and the unconquerable unconquerable un un- conquerable determination of th the the- e Americans who till WI It are beating the Germans Thrown back from his first rush across the Marne and held at Verdun by the valiant French the Huns cast all the restraints of humanity and civilization civilization to the winds and ushered in unrestricted submarine warfare with the boa boast t that England would be starved lit iII six mont months s. s How nearly they ther approached success will wUl form torm one of the most gloomy chapters chap chap- chapters In the world worM war history howand how howand howand and why they failed one of the most inspiring sections of the epic chron chron- icle idle AMERICA SENDS FIGHTERS FOOD True British and American- American sea dogs hunted the submarine American shipbuilders ship builders launched fleets whose sheer numbers made it impossible for the Hun sub sea terrors to sink all of ot them British land conscription turned hundreds hundreds hun hun- of thousands of acres of ot parks and hunting preserves Into pro crop areas Hoover and American food economy saved millions of bushels bushels bushels bush bush- els of wheat and shiploads of meat for fighting men and civilians in France I I and England But In the last analysis it was the farm and the farmer of America that kept allied hosts on every Western Vestern front in plenty and added despair of victory to the pinch of or hunger behind the Hun lines His bumper crops Jolted hopes at Potsdam and Vienna as severely as his fighting sons jolted generals at Cantigny and along the Marne since expectations of American crop failure were based with Germanic complacency complacency com com- com I I I on carefully plotted campaigns campaigns cam cam- j pal s of ot propaganda and sabotage Inthe in inthe inthe 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 harvesters harvesters har hare vesters and threshing machines were only a part of the widespread ruin planned by these fellows of Boy Ed I IVon Von and von Bernstorff and in too many instances their plots were I successful That more were not was waa I Idue due only to untiring vigilance which I can never be relaxed while the war lasts I New goals not easy of attainment are placed before the farmer through the plan for raising an army of ot five million Americans to crush Germany next year ear He will b be further handicapped by bythe bythe bythe the loss of hands to the army and he must raise greater crops Plans of ot the Department of Agriculture call for forthe forthe forthe the Increase of wheat acreage In the West by as much as 80 per cent NEW EFFORTS CALLED FOR FORNo FORNo No No one doubts that he will rise rIse to the opportunity for service placed before before before be be- fore him any any anymore more than any anyone one doubts that he will play his Is other parts in the perfectly co fighting machine revealed when America turned as a nation to win the war Not the least of ot these parts was his participation In the financing of ot the battle though previous history histon had written n down much effort to finance I the farmer Rural districts were uniformly more prompt than metropolitan areas in I their response to the Third Liberty I Loan Honor flags first flew from country flagstaffs and those with the p greatest number of honor stripes like like- wise The Third Liberty Loan the greatest greatest great great- est financial achievement In the history history history his his- tory of the tho United States and therefore therefore there there- fore In the world Is to be perhaps doubly eclipsed by the Fourth Liberty Loan The part of the farmer probably willbe will willbe be as proud |