WILL NEVER BE ABLE
TO PAY FOR DAMAGES
Fertile Soil Destroyed and Many Unexpioded Shells
Will Make Cultivation So Dangerous That
Doubtful if Land Can be Reclaimed
By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
What must Germany puv for?
That question can be adequately an
swered only wheu it Is remembered
that Germany started the terrible con
flict in Europe for no reason other
than that of conquest and loot; start
ed it only to satisfy the selfish ambi
tions of a selfish people for world
domination. That is being admitted
today by what is left of the German
nation; it is admitted by those who '
were directly responsible for the war.
And it Is because Germany started
this conflict for no reason other than
that of conquest and loot that Ger
many owes to the world full payment
for all the devastation which the war
has brought, not only in so far ns she
can pay now, but in so far ns she can
pay for generations yet to come.
Among the many, many sections of
Belgium and northern France that T
personally covered, following closely
on the heels of the retreating Hun
army, was that which lies between
what were the cities of Ypres and
Menin, approximately 20 miles apart.
Here, before the coming of the invad
ing Boche, was whnt was considered
the most productive soil of the world,
and the most intensely cultivated.
Here In a number of farm villages
lived the Belgian peasant families,
happy, thrifty people, each family cul
tivating the small fields which it
owned. No fences separated these
fields, no hedges cut them off from the
f
\
oven one small object that wonld tell
them of the homes, the only homes,
they had known.
It was German ambition, German
cruelty, German lust, German wauton
ness, German brutality, that were the
cause of the destruction of these
homes, of the agonies of a peaceful,
thrifty people.
What can possibly compensate these
people for their loss, frfr the misery
they have suffered and must still suf
fer, for the homes and the associations
that are gone forever? No, Germany
can never pay In full, hut she can con
tinue to pay and pay and pay until
there has been bred out of the German
people that desire for war, that love
of conquest, that brutality, that It has
taken centuries, almost, to breed Into
them, and which has resulted In laying
a whole world waste.
In all that 20 miles between Ypres
and Afonin, on both side.-, of that long
straight road, I am sure I did not set
one square foot of soil that was not
a part of a shell crater. What had
once been the richest soil of tht
world Is today but a waste, made so
by the shells that fell upon it be
cause Germany sought world domina
tion. This soil has been destroyed by
countless thousands of shells falling
actually one upon another, each dig
ging deeper into the earth until the
very subsoil has been turned over and
the land made worthless for cultlva
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Ground Pulverized by Bursting of Big Shells.
roadways, and the families that cult!
vated the fields lived not on the little
farms but In closely built villages of
from 100 to 500 people each.
Devastation Is Complete.
It Is hard to realiee today that these
villages ever existed, that the land
along this long, straight road was ever j
cultivated, ever produced foodstuffs ]
for a people. In fact, It Is hard to
realize today that this was ever on In- j
habited country.
Of these peaceful villages, the living
places of these form people, there Is
no trace left. There are not even plies
of debris, of broken brick and stone
and lumber, to mark the spots where
they stood. There Is no single thing
by which the returning peasants, wear
ily dragging themselves back to that
spot which had been home to them and
to their ancestors for almost countless
generations, can murk the place where
not only their home but their village
had stood.
I have seen old men and women,
wearied by four long years of exile,
stand beside this road and gazo long
ingly over the devastated landscape,
in an effort to locate some fumlliar ob
ject that would remind them of the
spot they had known all their lives,
and then turn away with tears on their
cheeks because they could not find
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tion for years to come, if indeed it can
ever be reclaimed.
Unexploded Shells Buried in Soil.
There lie today on the surface of
this land many thousands of unex
ploded shells, and there are buried In
the soil many, many thousands more,
each one of them a menace to any
farmer who attempts to put a plow
into the soil in an effort to reclaim it.
And this land Is destroyed, as the
homes were destroyed, because of Ger
man ambition, of German cruelty, of
German lust, of German wautonness
and German brutality.
Who is to pny for it? Who is to
risk destruction that it may again be
put into condition for cultivation, that
it may serve the purposes of the hu
man race? Shall the peaceful Belgian
peasants, who had no part in the start
ing of this conflict, suffer their loss
without compensation? Shall these
peasants who have endured more than
four long years of homeless agonies,
who have suffered not alone the loss
of homes and land but the loss of
relatives and friends as well, be the
ones to risk destruction in the effort
to again bring these lands back to a
condition where cultivation is possi
ble? Shall they be blown to bits by
the bursting of these shells, hidden as
they are beneath the surface of the
ground, when the plow strikes and ex
plodes them? If undisturbed, those
shells continue to be a menace for
years to come, but who are to risk
their lives In removing them?
Could the American people gener
ally, and especially the American farm
ers. have seen the sights I have seen
along this long, straight road between
Ypres and Menln, they would say, as
I say, it Is the German who must pay;
it is the German who must risk de
struction In the effort to put this land
again into condition for cultivation.
I believe tfTat or.e condition of the
peace treaty should be that Germany,
either as one nation,«or proportionately
from the several small nations that
may be formed out of the German em
pire, should coll Its military classes to
the colors each year as It has done In
the past; hut In place of putting guns
Into the humls of these men, and train
ing them for the purposes of war—a
war of conquest—that it should put
these men into the territories she has
devastated, to reclaim the soil and to
rebuild the villages, the towns and
cities the Huns have destroyed. Let
these Germans, under guard of Bel
gian troops, take the risk of destruc
tion ; let them guide the plow’ that may
strike the unexploded shell, and let
Germany pay them the meager wage;
of the German soldier while they ure
doing this.
Should Pay and Pay and Pay.
That would be the nearest thing to
an accounting that Germany can ren
der to the world, but she sljould -pay
all that It is humanly possible for a
people to pay who have so ruthlessly
despoiled the world. Her people should
pay, and pny, and pay, until they have
learned beyond the shadow of a doubt
that war for the purpose of conquest,
for the purpose of loot, for the grati
flcatlon of selfish ambitions, is the
most unprofitable business they could
possibly engage in.
And remember that the devastation
to be seen along the road from Ypres
to Menin Is but an example of all the
terrible destruction to be found
throughout Belgium and northern
France and Serbia and other countries
that have been overrun by the con
quest-seeking armies of the Boche.
And remember, too, that it is not alone
the devastation that Is to be paid for,
but it Is the work and the tears and
the economic loss of every nation that
was called Into the struggle to defeat
the selfish purposes of a selfish peo
ple, that the world might be a decent
place in which free men might live.
ivlEAT PRODUCERS
DID FULL DUTY
Increase in American Hogs Will
Help to Meet World Fat
Shortage.
FARMERS SAVE SITUATION.
Government Justified In Stimulation
of Pork Production—Sevenfold
Increase Over Pre
War Exports.
Through Increased production and
conservation we will be able this yeat
to export seven times our pre-wat
average exports of pork products
With the heavy demands added In car
ing for the millions who have beer)
freed from German oppression, the
Department of Agriculture and the
Food Administration are Justified to
day In our every action of stimulation
of hog production. In the coining yeai
the greatest world shortage will be lr
fats, and pork will help to save this
situation. The efficacy of the pollcj
of stimulated production has built uj
In this country supplies which will en
able us to supply u very large part ol
the fat deficiency of the world. Id
beef there must he a shortage In Eu
rope, due largely to limited refrlgera
tor ship capacity. All freezer shlpi
available, however, will be filled hj
America, Argentine and Australia.
The contribution made by the pro
ducers of this country to the war pro
gram as applying particularly to anl
mul food products Is Illustrated by tin
following:
lteports compiled by the U. S. De
purl meat of Agriculture Indicate at
Increase In cattle of 10,238,000 hear
and 12,441,IKK) hogs. These figure!
were compiled to January 1 last.
in this period there was a decrease
In sheep of 811),000 la ud. The lndlca
tlons are that this decrease will show
an Increase, according to recent re
l»orts.
Since .January I unomciai iniorma
tlon Indicates an Increase In hogs ol
not less than 8 per cent, und no
more than 15 per cent, us comparei
with one year ago, with, an Increase li
the average weight.
Following the request of the U. S
Food Administration for an Increase
In hog production for marketing In tin
fall of 1918 and the spring of 1919 tin
Increase may yield not less than 1,000,
000,000 pounds more of pork product
than were available lust year. With
out this Increase the shipping progran
arranged by Mr. Hoover regarding an
Itnul food products would have beet
Impossible.
The dressed hog products during th
three months ending September 30
1917, amounted to 903,172,000 pounds
while for the corresponding months o
1918 the dressed hog products totalet
1,277,589,000, an Increase of over 074,
(>00,000 pounds for the quarter.
During the same period for 1917 tin
records of Inspected slaughter o
dressed beef showed 1,263,000,00<
pounds as against 1,494,000,000 poundi
for the three month period ending
September 1, this year.
Our food Gospel
eat less
serve less
lie nothing
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America** Pledge of Food
Gave Heart to the Allies
In Their Darkest Hou
Whatever ta necessnry America wl
send. That vvua Aiuerlca'a pledge t
the interallied food council. And b<
cnn*e nie American food army Inn.
hitherto mode good the;- took heait
and went forward.
farm enterprise and much soft com
Increased pork supplies, food conser
vation increased exports—total ship
ments doubled.
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FAITH JUSTIFIED
BY EVENTS.
I do not believe that drastic
force need be applied to main
tain economic distribution and
sane use of supplies by the
treat majority of American peo
ple, and I have learned a deep
and abiding faith In the Intelli
gence of the average American
business man, whose aid we an
ticipate and depend on to reme
dy the evils developed by the
war.—Herbert Hoover, August
10, 1017.
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Waste nothing
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NO ONE SUFFERED HERE
The marvel of our voluntary food
'living, now that we are “getting re
sults," is that no one ever actually
suffered uny liurdshi|» from it; that
we all are better In healtn anil spirit
mil hotter satisfied with ourselves be
:-ause of our friendly self-denial.
Food control in America held the
price of breads!tiffs steady, prevented
vicious speculation and extortion ami
preserved tranquillity at home.
In no other nation Is there so willing
a sense of voluntary self-sacrillce as
in America—that was shown In the
abstinence from wl cat.
•Find more wheat. It came; more
pork. It came; save sugar, It was done.
So Americans answered the challenge
of Herman starvation.
Hood will rules the new world as
fear governed the old world. Through
sharing food America helps make the
whole world kin.
Food control made sufficiency from
shortage, kept the rein on food pi ices,
pave the nation's full stiength exer
cise.
Starvation by Oermany challenged
all the world; food conservation In
America answered the challenge.
Food conservation in America nas
been the triumih of individual devo
tion to the national cause.
TUBERCULOSIS ARE SPREAD THIS WAY
SPANISH INFLUENZA
Do Not Fear When Fighting a
German or a Germ!
By Dr. M. COOK.
1 The cool fighter always wins and so
! there is no need to become panic
stricken. Avoid fear and crowds. Ex
' crcise in (he fresh air and practice the
three C’s: A Clean Mouth, a Clean
Skin and Clean Bowels. To carry off
the poisons that accumulate within the
body and to ward off an attack of the
i influenza bacillus, take a good liver
regulator to move the bowels. Such a
one is made up of May-apple, leaves of
; aloe, root of jalap, and is to be had
1 at any drug 6tore, and called "Pleasant
■ Purgative Pellets.”
If a bad cold develops, go to bed, wrap
\ op well, drink freely of hot lemonade
‘ and take a hot mustard foot-bath.
Have the bedroom warm but well ven
tilated. Obtain at the nearest drug
store "Anuric Tablets" to flush the
kidneys and control the pains and
aches. Take an "Anuric" tablet every
two hours, together with copious drinks
of lemonade. If a true case of influ
enza, the food should be simple, such as
broths, milk, buttermilk and ice-cream;
but it is important that food be given
regularly in order to keep up patient’s
strength and vitality. After the acute
attack has passed, which is generally
from three to seven days, the system
should be built up by the use of a good
iron tonic, such as "Irontic” tablets, to
r be obtained at some drug stores, ji
that well known blood-maker aid
I herbal tonic made from nxits a; id
a barks of forest trees—sold everywhere is
i-1 Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Disco ve. /.
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All Counterfeits, Imitations and “ Just-as-good” are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger In. l.yUith <*
Infants and Children-Experience agaui^ Wram..
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