Show I FARMERS KILL ma HUN UN STARVATION PLAN WITH JIG BIG CROPS Pinched by Own Hunger Germans Germani Watch American Wheat Flow in Plenty to the Allies The soil roll the two fisted two fisted fighting men coon that spring from the soil oll and the un un- unconquerable conquerable determination of the Americans who till It are beating the Germane Thrown back from his first m rush b across acro the Marne and held beld at Verdun by the tile valiant French the Huns cast all the restraints of humanity humanity- and civilisation mutton to the winds and ushered red In unrestricted submarine warfare with the boast boust that England would be starved Itan-c l in six Ix months montha How nearly they approached success will m form one of the most gloomy chapters chapters chap chap- in the world war ar history how bow howand howand and Vb why they failed one of of the most inspiring sections of the epic chron chron- idle Icle AMERICA SENDS FIGHTERS FOOD True British and American leado sea dogs s bunted hunted the he submarine Amerl American an shipbuilders ship ship- hullers builders launched fleets whose sheer numbers made it impossible for the Hun sub spa t terrors to sink all of ot them British land conscription turned hundreds bun hun R of or thou thousands ands of acres of parka parks and hunting preserves into c l' l pro clop pro ins arras areas Hoover and American food economy saved millions o of bushels bush bush- els ells of wheat and ADd shiploads of or meat meal tor for fl fighting men and civilians civilian in France and I England But nul in the last Jul analysis it itt wai was the farm tann and the farmer fanner of America that that kept allied hosts bosts on ever every Western front in plenty and added despair of victor victory to the pinch of h hunger behind the Hun lines Unel His bumper crops crop jolted hop hopes hope at Potsdam and Vienna u sa severely a as his hi righting fighting sons son jolted generals at Cantigny and along alone the Marne since expectations of American crop failure were wet based with Germanic com corn on carefully plotted can eam piP pairs of propaganda and sabotage la is lathe the United States State HUN AGENTS BURN URN CROPS The general public i is I. too little aware awan i ef of t the bitter battles baUles the crop grower rower I lias lial had to fight cht to bring his wheat to I harvest harvet Burned buD barns standing crops bar bar- Testers and threshing machines were enly a part of the widespread ruin planned by these thle fellows fellow of Boy Ed Von and von Ton Bernstorff and in too many Instances Instance their plots were successful That more were wire not waldue was wal due only to untiring vigilance which can never be relaxed re while the war lasts New goals not Dot ea easy of attainment are We placed before th the farmer through the plan for raising an army of or five ft million Americans Americana to crush Germany Guman next year He will be further handicapped d by bythe bythe bythe the lose Iou of or hands hand to the army and be he must Bust raise greater Teater crops Plans of the Department of Agriculture call all for lor forthe forthe the Increase of wheat acreage in fo the West Welt by as aa much m a as aa 80 per cent NEW EFFORTS CALLED FOR FORNo No one doubts doubt that be he will m rise rile to the opportunity for tor service placed before before be- be fore him any more than any one doubts that h he will play his hie other pane lit ill the perfectly coordinated co co 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 01 the battle though previous history had written down lown much effort to finance the farmer Rural districts were uniformly more prompt than metropolitan areas areal In their response to the Third Liberty Libert Loan Honor flags fist n flew w from count country flagstaffs and those with the f tf nu number ber of b honor stripes r pel like like- wise he lee eSt Io V r-V- The Third Liberty Loan the greatest greatest great gNat est elt financial achievement in the history history his his- tory of ot the United States and therefore therefore there there- fore in the world is to be he perhaps doubly eclipsed b by the Fourth Liberty Loan The part of 01 the farmer larmer probably will willbe willbo 1 bo be e a as proud Rv IU |