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Show FARMERS KILL HUN STARVATION PLAN WITH JBIG CROPS Pinched by Own Hunger, Germans Watch American Wheat Flow in Plenty to the Allies Tho soil, tho twp-flstcd fighting men that spring from he soil, and tho unconquerable un-conquerable determination of the Americans who till It, aro beating tho Oormans. Thrown back from his' first rush across tho Marno and hold nt Verdun by tho valiant French, tho Huns cast all the rostrnlnts of humanity nnd civilization civ-ilization to tho winds and ushorod in unrestricted submarine warfare with the boast that . England would be starved In six months. How nearly they approached success will form ono of tho most gloomy chapters chap-ters In tho world wnr history; how and why thoy fallod, ono of the most' inspiring sections of tho epic chronicle. chron-icle. AMERICA SENDS FIGHTERS FOOD True, British and American soa-dogs huntod tho submarlno; American shipbuilders ship-builders launched fleets whose sheer numbers mado It tmposslblo for the Hun sub-soa terrors tc sink all of thorn; British land conscription turned hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of acres of parks and hunting prosorves Into crop-producing areas; Hoover and American food economy saved millions of bushels bush-els of whoat and shiploads of moat for fighting men and civilians in France nnd England. But In tho last analysis It was the farm and the farmer of America that kopt allied 'r.osts on every Western front In plontj and added despair of victory to the pinch of hunger bohlnd the Hun lines. His bumpor crops Jolted hopes at Potsdam and Vienna as sovoroly as Ms fighting sons Jolted Teuton generals at Cautlgny and along tho Marno, since expectations of Amorlcan crop failure wore basod with Gormanlc complacency com-placency on carefully plotted campaigns cam-paigns of propaganda and sabotage 'In tho United States. HUN AGENTS riirn Froph Tho goneral public Is too llttlo aware of tho bitter battles the crop grower has had to fight to bring his wheat to harvest. Burned barns, standing crops, har. vestors and threshing machines, were only a part of tho widespread' ruin plannod by those fellows ot'Boy-Ed. Von Pa pen and von Bernstdrtf, knd id. too many Instances their plots' were successful. That more wero not was duo only to untiring vigilance which can nover bo relaxed whllo tho war, lasts. Now goals, not ensy of attainment, aro placed boforo tho farmor through tho plan for raising nn army of five million Americans to crush Germany noict year. Ho will bo further handicapped by tho loss of hands to tho army, and he must raise greater crops. 'I'lans of tho Department of Agrlculturo call for the Increasd "of wheat ncreago In "tho West by as much as SO por cent NEW EFFORTS CALLED FOR No ono doubts thnt ho will rlso to tho opportunity for nervlco placod be-foro be-foro him, any morn than any one doubts that he will play his other parts In tho perfectly co-ordinated fighting machlno ruvcaled when America turned us n nation to win the war. Not tho least of those parts wob his participation In tho financing of the battlo, though provlous history had written down much effort to flnanco the farmor. Ilural districts woro uniformly more prompt than metropolitan areas In their rosponso to tho Third Liberty Loan. Honor Hags llrst flow from country flagstaff's, and thoso with the greatest numbor of honor stripes Ilka-wlso. Ilka-wlso. The Third Liberty Loan, tho greatest great-est flnanclnl achlovemont In tho his-'ory his-'ory of tho United States, and therefore there-fore In tho world, is to bo porhaps djubly eclipsed by tho Fourth Llborty Loon. Tho part, of tho farmer probably will be as proud. |