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Show AMERICAN CPir.IT RELIED ON TO WIN. In the IIrIii of succeeding eventx II Is IntereslliiK t" lorn II t tie confidence with which the t'nltiU Ututes Food Administrator viewed tho Bloomy outlook out-look In July of t()17,awtivn this country coun-try hod been In the war for less than four months nnd tho Germans went steadily sending the western front nearer and nearer to 1'r.rls. "Even though tho situation In Bu-ropo Bu-ropo may be gloomy today," he declared de-clared In b public statement, "no American who tins knowledge of the results iilrcnily obtained In every direction di-rection need luivo one atom of fear that democracy will not defend Itself In these United States." . |