GERMANS DESTROYED
MOST FERTILE FARMS
Stumps of Orchards and Graves of Thousands of
Soldiers All That Remain of Once Flourishing
Farms of Fertile Somme Valley
By WRIQHT A. PATTERSON.
Cun the American reader Imagine
transforming the fertile fields and
Prosperous villages and towns and
cities In states like New York, Ohio,
Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kan- !
sas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wisconsin,
Texas, or any other of the rich agri
cultural states of the Union into an
uninhabited desert?
That is what the Boche did to the
Somme country of France. Before
the war this section of France was
looked upon as one of the most pro
ductive sections of the world. It was
covered with fertile farms, splendid
fruit orchards, thriving villages and
towns and prosperous little cities.
Among its cities and towns were
Amiens, Albert, Peronne, Hamel, St.
Quentin, Itoye, and many, many oth- j
ers that are today but heaps of debris,
but which will figure prominently In
the history of the great war.
This beautiful valley was interlaced
with magnificent roadways, and each
roadway lined with wonderful trees,
many of them centuries old. Along
these roadways stood hundreds of
farm villages, each village housing
from one hundred to five hundred hap
py, contented, thrifty people, who
tilled the soil of their fertile acres and
gathered the fruit of their orchards as
their forefathers had done for many
generations.
Upon the farms of this valley all of
France depended for much of Its food
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An Idea of the Oeetructlon and Devastation Left In the Wake of the Re
treating Hun Hordes le Shown In British Official Photograph.
siurrs, ror us Dreaa. its meat, its fruit,
aud year after year these fertile acres
and these thrifty, Industrious people
had met the expectations of France in
the matter of food production.
And then caine the Boche with his
dreums of conquest and of loot, and
for four years this valley of the
Somme was a battleground, with mil
lions of men struggling backward and
fonvard across It, those on the one
side seeking the selfish purpose of
wTorld domination and destruction and
those opposed seeking the preserva
tion of freedom and liberty and world
civilization.
No Evidence of Many Villages.
The American people, and especially
those of the rich agricultural states of
the North or South, of the East or
West, can look about them at their
own happy and prosperous communi
ties and easily picture in their minds
the Somme section of France before
the war. But It Is Impossible to pic
ture that same section as It Is today.
It Is Impossible to put Into words the
terrible devastation that has been
wrought because of the ambitions and
lust of a selfish people.
Every one of the two or three hun
dreds of thriving farm villages are
gone, the great majority of them gone
so completely as to leave no evidence
that they ever existed; the material of
which they were constructed carted
away that It might be used In the con
struction of the fortifications of the
famous Himlenburg line behind which
the Invaders sought refuge; Its cities
completely demolished, their magnifi
cent churches and cathedrals, the
work of the master builders of centu
ries ago, ground to powdered stone:
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the wonderful trees lining the road
ways torn to splinters; the people of
the valley homeless and scattered to
the four winds.
Like many.thousands of Americans,
1 had failed to believe jmsslble all of
the things we hud been told were the
work of the Boche. I had reud with
considerable reservation the descrip
tion of the destroyed orchards where
the fruit trees were said to have been
deliberately cut down. But as I rode
for miles and miles and miles over the
Somme valley I could not fall to be
lieve what my eyes saw, and there
were the stumps of what had once
been orchard after orchurd from which
France hud reaped her harvest of
fruit. Each stump wus cut square
with a saw, and each stump of almost
exactly the same height, as though the
depredator had measured each with a
yardstick to ascertain the exact place
of cutting.
Why Germany Should Pay.
Think of what It would mean should
the Boche go through any one of our
own agricultural states and commit
the same terrible depredations. Would
we not say that lie should pay? And
can we afford to say anything less for
the farmer of France than we would
say for the farmer of America? No,
the American ideals of today, the
ideals which the stricken peoples of
Fur >pe are striving to make their
ideals, demand justice for all wherever
«nn wnoever tney may he, and Amer
ica can do no less than demand the
same reparation for the French farm
er that she would demand for the
American farmer under such circum
stances.
There Is itlilng living today on
those Somme fields. There is nothing
but stumps and the bnttered and torn
remains of what were once prosperous
towns and cities. These and the
graves of almost countless, thousands
of soldier dead—some of them Ameri
can soldier dead—are all that Is left
to Indicate that man ever passed that
way; all that Is left to indicate that
this great valley was ever more than
the desert It now uppears."
Boche Must Pay and Pay.
Along the edge • ’ the Somme valley
runs what is left of the Hlndenburg
line, designed with all the cunning of
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FAITH JUSTIFIED * '
BY EVENTS. ♦ '
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I do not believe that drastic ♦
force need be applied to main- + (
tain economic distribution und ♦
sane use of supplies by the +
great majority of American peo- ♦
pie, and I have learned a deep * «.
and abiding faith in the Inteili- + I
gence of the average American ♦ t
business man, whose aid we un- + t
tlclpate und depend on to feme- ♦ '
dy tlie evils developed by the ♦ t
war.—Herbert lioover, August + |
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Patriots Plenty
Bqyless - Serve less
Eat on^y 3 meals a day
Waste nothing
"Vfour Quests will cheer
fully share simple fare
Be Proud to be
a food saver
a master criminal as a barrier behind
which he might hide and beat back his
pursuers. Rut American boys and
English boys und French boys broke
down that barrier, and they have to
day arraigned that criminal at the
world's bar of justice, where he is be
ing tried for his crimes. The Ameri
can people are a part of the Jury that
is trying him, and I have tried to pre
sent but a small fraction of the evi
dence against him.
It Is safe to say that the verdict may
be left with the American people, with
the French people, with the English
people, with the Belgian people, and
that they will sentence the Boche to
pny and pay and pay for several gen
erations until there has been bred out
of him and his children that idea that
might is right and thut he can over
throw the civilization and the free
dom of the world to gratify his own
selfish purposes.
The crime Is greater than the Boche
can ever pay for. It is really greater
than the world will ever know7, and the
Items In the long uccount of the crimi
nal record of Germany will never all
be recorded.
CAPITAL RENTALS ARE HIGH
Sum Paid by President Washington
for Residence Would Not Be Con
sidered Extravagant «Today.
Rentals of $2,500 to $5,000 a year
are not remarkable. There are hun
dreds of apartments In this city which
rent for more, a great deal more, and
it is likely that the new7 constructions
In the best apartment-house sections
contain no suites us cheap as $2,500.
When New York was the capital of
the nation and Washington the chief
executive there were few who paid as
high us $1,000 a year for homes. Rec
ords show that George Washington
paid $2,500 a year for the use of the
MoCoinb mansion on Broadway while
president of the United States. As
first citizen of the country It was al
lowable thut he should pay so high
rental, but only the president paid
anything like that amount. He got a
good deal more for his money than
the man who pays $2,500 for an apart
ment today.
A lie iUV.WUJU 11VUOC W CX0 Uilc Ul IU“
finest homes in the capital. It was
built by the best architect in the
colonies and great cure and no small
umount of money were spent in the
construction of the house, which was
large and had many splendid rooms.
It had beautifully laid out grounds
and from n business standpoint was
Ideal because it was only a short dis
tance from Federal hall at the north
east corner of Wall and Nassau
streets, now the subtreasury. Wash
ington extended himself when he paid
this rental, although one of the rich
est men in the colonies.
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h Our exports since is country +
h entered the war have justified a +
I- statement made by the Food Ad- +
h ministration shortly after its con- +
V ception, outlining the principles +
I* and policies that would govern +
h the solution of this country’s 4*,
(* food problems. +
h “The whole foundation of de- +
i* mocracy,” declared the Food Ad- +
V ministration, “lies in the lndl- +
V vidual initiative of its people +
K und their willingness to serve the +
h Interests of the nation with com- +
(■ pleteself effacement in the time +
V of emergency. Democracy can +
I- yield to discipline, und we can +
i- solve tills food problem for our +
h own people and for the Allies In +
I* tills way. To have done so will +
h have been a greater service than +
- our Immediate objective, for we +
- have demonstrated the rightful- +
h ness of our faith und our ability d*
y to defend ourselves without be
• lug Prussianized." +
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Sending to Europe 141,0<X),000 bush
■ls of wheat from a surplus of appar
ntly nothing was the outstanding ex
dolt of the American food array In the
rltical year of the war.
1REATEST OPPORTUNITY
WOMEN EVER HAD.
It was given to the women of this
ountry to perforin the greatest serv
i-e In the winning of the war vouch
afed to any women In the history of
lie wars of the world—to feed the
varrlors and the war sufferers. By
he arts of peace, the practice of slra
de, homely virtues the womanhood of
i whole nation served humanity In Its
irofoundest struggle for peace and
reedom.
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A your ago voluntary food control
vas a during adventure In democracy;
luring the year un established proof
it democratic efficiency
KEPT PLEDGE
TO SEND CriftD
American Nation Maintained Al
lied Loaf Through Self
Denial at Home Table.
AVERTED EUROPEAN DESPAIR
With Military Demands Upon Ocean
Shipping Relieved, World Is Able
to Return to Normal White
Wheat Bread.
Since the advent of the Intest wheat
crop the only limitation npon Ameri
can exports to Europe has been the
shortage of shipping, lletween July 1
uiul October 10 we shipped (Jo,080,30.'
bushels. If this rate should continue
until the end of the fiscal year we will
have furnished the Allies with more
than 237,500,000 bushels of wheat and
flour In terms of wheat.
The result of increased production
and conservation efforts In the United
States has been that with the cessa
tion of hostilities we are able to re
turn to n normal wheat diet. Supplies
that have accumulated In Australia.
Argentine and other hitherto Inacces
sible markets may be tapped by ships
released from transport service, and
European demand for American wheat
probably will not exceed our normal
surplus. There is wheat enough avail
able to have a white loaf at the com
mon table.
But Inst year the tale was different.
Only by the greatest possible saving
and sacrifice were we able to keep a
steady stream of wheat and flour mov
ing across the sea. We found our
selves at the beginning of the harvest
year with an unusually short crop.
Even the most optimistic statisticians
figured that we hud a bare surplus of
20,000,000 bushels. And yet Europe
was ruclng the probability of u bread
famine—and In Europe bread Is by far
the most Important article in the diet.
All of this surplus had left the
country early In the fall. By the first
of the year we had managed to ship a
little more than 50,000,000 bushels by
practicing the utmost economy at
home—by wheatless day#, wheat less
meuls, heavy substitution of other
cereals and by sacrifice at almost
every meal throughout the country.
In Junuary the late Ix>rd Rhondda,
then British Food Controller, cabled
that only if we sent an additional 75,
000,000 bushels before July 1 could he
take the responsibility of assuring his
people that they would be fed.
The response of the American peo
ple was 85,000.000 bushels safely deliv
ered overseas between Januaty 1 and
July 1. Out of a harvest which gave
us only 20,000,000 bushels surplus we
actually shipped 141,000,000 bushels.
Thus did America fulfill her pledge
that the Allied bread rations could be
maintained, and already the American
people are demonstrating that, with
an awakened war conscience, last
year's figures will be bettered.
Kind more wheat, it came; more
pork. It came ; save sugar, It was done.
So Americans answered the challenge
->f German starvation.
Good will rules the new world as
fear governed the old world. Through
sharing food America helps make the
whole world kin.
Food control rnude sufficiency from
shortage, kept the rein on food prices,
gave the nation's full strength exer
cise.
Starvation by Germany challenged
all ‘.he world; food conservation in
America answered the challenge.
Food conservation In America nas
been the triumph of Individual
weeKiy Health Talks
* WORD ABOUT THE KIDNEY!
B7 DOCTOR WATSON.
People are easily frightened when
they think something is the matter with
their lungs or heart, and well they
may be; but few people understand
the dangers of diseased kidneys. These
organs have a duty of vital importance
to perform, and if they are diseased,
there is no telling how or where the
symptoms may appear. The kidneys
are filters, and when they are healthy
they remove the poisons from the blood
and purify it. When the kidneys are
diseased, the poisons are spread every
where, and one of these poisons is uric
acid. The uric acid is carried all
through the system and deposited in
various places, in the form of urate
salts — in the feet, ankles, wrists and
back — often forming bags under the
;yes. Sometimes the resulting trouble
is called rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica
Mid backache. Finally, come stone
in the bladder, diabetes and Bright’s
disease.
Dr. Pi . ', of Buffalo, 17. Y., in recent
years, discovered that a c itain com
bination of remedies would dissolve uric
acid (urate salts) in the system. He
found this combination to be harmless,
so that he made it up in tablets,
of double strength, and called them
Anuric Tablets. They dissolve uric
acid in the human system as hot coffee
dissolves sugar. 1 f you have uric acid
troubles, don’t delay in taking Anuric
Tablets, which ‘ can be secured in the
drug stores. You cau write Dr. Pierce,
too, and he will tell you what to eat
and how to live so that more uric acid
will not form in your system. Dr. Pierce
will not charge for this advice.
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Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
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