Show 4 FARMERS ERS KILL HUN STARVATION PLAN WI TH RIG BIG CROPS I J Pinched Pinched by Own Ow Hunger Germans Watch American Wheat Flow x in Plenty to the Allies The soil the two-fisted two fighting men that spring flour flora the soil and the unconquerable unconquerable un conquerable determination of the Americans who till till It are beating the t TIll Thrown wn back from his first rush across the Marne 1 and held at Verdun by bythe the valiant nt French the Huns cast all the restraints of b humanity and civilization to the winds and ushered in unrestricted submarine warfare with the boast that England would be starved in six months How nearly they approached success will form fonn orie one of orthe the most glo gloomy my chapters chapters chap chap- in the world war history howand how howand and and why they failed one of the most 4 inspiring sections of the epi chron chron- r idle Icle AMERICA SENDS FIGHTERS FOOD True British and American dogs sen-dogs r hu hunted ted the submarine American shipbuilders shipbuilders ship ship- builders launched fleets whose sheer n numbers made It impossible for the Hun s sub sea sea b-sea terrors to sink sink all all of them British land conscription c turned hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of thousands of acres of parks 4 and hunting preserves into crop crop pro t l during areas Hoover and American w to food d ec economy nomy saved millions of of- bushels bush els of wheat and shiploads of meat forn for n fighting men men and civilians in France Francea a arid and i England But in the last analysis it was the farm rm and the farmer of America that kept allied hosts on every Western front in plenty and added d despair of victory to the pinch of hunger behind the Hun lines V. V 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 based with Germanic complacency com corn on carefully plotted campaigns campaigns cam cam- of propaganda and e sabotage in inthe the the United States Stales Hr Ht AGENTS CROPS u V The general public is too little aware of the bitter battles the crop grower 4 had to fight to bring his wheat to tot t F Harvest J t V Burned barns standing crops harvesters hare bar s vesters and threshing machines were only a part of the widespread ruin planned b by these fellows of Ed Boy z L Von and Wand and von B Bernstorff andIn t too many mant instances their plots were t successful That more were not wast was vas t s due die only to untiring vigilance which V can never be relaxed while the war lasts a New goals not easy of attainment are placed before t the e farmer through wV the plan for raising an army of five A i million Americans to crush Germany next year 4 I He will b be further handicapped I by rV r V the the loss loss t to the th army and he f must raise greater crops Pla Plans s of fir the Department of ot Agriculture call for fori forthe i the Increase of wheat leat acreage in the West Vest by as much as 80 per cent NEW NEW EFFORTS V CALLED FOR FORNo No one doubts that he he will rise to S the opportunity for service placed before before be be- fore him any more than any anyone one oness ss doubts that he will play his other parts di In the perfectly co fighting machine revealed when when- America turned r S 'S as a n nation to win the war Not the least of these parts was his was hlll participation in the financing of the battle though previous history had hadS written down much effort to to finance S tho farmer fanner V Rural districts were uniformly more mor SJ prompt than than- metropolitan areas in Iq their response to the Third Liberty a Loan Honor Hono flags first flew dew from froni 4 country flagstaffs and those with the k s greatest number of honor stripes likewise like like- wise The Third Liberty Loan the greatest great great- V est eat financial achievement in the history his hie tory of the United States and therefore there there- 2 fore in the world Is to be perhaps d Y by the Fourth Liberty Loan Ln r The part of the tb farmer probably will wille Y Le e as proud |