Show FARMERS Kill ULL HUN STARVATION PLAN WITH BIG CROPS Pinched by Own Hunger Germans Watch American Wheat Flow in Plenty to the Allies The Tho soil the two fisted fighting men that spring from tram the soil soll and the unconquerable unconquerable un conquerable determination of the Americans who till it It are aro beating tho the Germans Thrown back from his first rush across the Marne and held at Verdun by the valiant French the Huns cast i all tho the restraints of ot humanity and civilization to the winds and ushered in unrestricted submarine warfare with the boast that England would be starved In six months How nearl nearly they approached success will form torm one of or the most gloomy gloom chapters chap in the worl l war history how howand howand I and why hy they failed tailed one of ot the most I Inspiring sections of the epic chron chron- icle AMERICA SENDS FIGHTERS FOOD True British and American sea-dogs sea hunted the submarine American shipbuilders shipbuilders ship ship- builders launched fleets whose sheer shoes numbers made it impossible for the Hun sub sea terrors to sink all of them British land conscription turned hundreds hundreds hun hun- of at thousands of acres of parks parcs and hunting preserves into pro crop areas Hoover and American food economy saved millions of bushels bushels bush bush- els of at wheat and shiploads of meat for tor fighting men and civilians in France and England But in the last analysis it was the farm and the farmer of America that kept allied hosts on every Western front In plenty and added despair of ol Victory to the pinch of 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 on carefully plotted cam of propaganda and sabotage In Inthe inthe inthe the United States HUN AGENTS BURN CROPS The general public is too little aware of Df the bitter battles the crop grower has bas had bad to fight tight to bring his wheat to harvest barvest Burned barns standing crops harvesters liar hare vesters and threshing machines were only a part of the widespread ruin planned by these fellows of Ed Boy Von and von Bernstorff and in too many instances their plots were successful That more were not was due only to untiring vigilance which can never be relaxed while the war lasts New goals not easy of attainment are placed before the farmer through the plan for raising an army of five million Americans to crush Germany next year eal He will be further handicapped by bythe bythe bythe the loss of or hands to the army and he must raise greater crops Plans o othe ot of the Department of Agriculture call for forthe forthe forthe the increase of wheat acreage in the West by as much as SO per cent NEW EFFORTS CALLED FOR FORNo No one doubts that he be will rise to the opportunity for s service ice l' placed before before before be be- fore him any more than any anyone one doubts that he will play his other parts In the perfectly co fighting machine revealed when America turned as a nation to win the war Not the least of these parts was his participation in the financing of the battle though previous history had written down much effort to finance the farmer Rural districts were uniformly more prompt than metropolitan areas in their response to the Third Liberty Loan Honor flags first fiew flew fro from In country flagstaffs and those with tho the greatest number of at honor stripes like wise The Third Liberty Loan the greatest greatest great great- est financial achievement in the history history his his- tory of the United States and therefore there fore in the world is to be perhaps doubly eclipsed by the Fourth Liberty Loan The part of the farmer probably willbe will wll be as as proud |