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A. S. BURLESON, Postmaster-General.

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FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY London

PUBLIC OPINION New York combined with The LITERARY DIGEST

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Painted by Edw. V. Brewer for Cream of Wheat Co.

Copyright 1918 by Cream of Wheat Co.

"NONE BUT THE BRAVE DESERVE THE FARE."

Westclox

- the trade-mark on the dials of good alarm clocks

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easily un

Yderstand why good

alarm clocks are harder to get than they used to be. The war has made them scarce.

Uncle Sam had to draw heavily upon his metal-power just as upon his man-power. Less steel and brass were available for clock-making.

At the same time, the war has taught folks the value of punctuality. Good alarm clocks are

more in demand than ever before.

Westclox alarms are

particularly popular. Their good timekeeping makes people want them. The same Westclox construction that made Big Ben such a favorite is back of that faithful service.

While this shortage exists, it will pay you to take good care of your Westclox alarm. Careful treatment will make it last longer.

Western Clock Co. - makers of Westclox

Big Ben Baby Ben Pocket Ben America Lookout Ironclad Bingo Sleep-Meter

La Salle, Ill., U. S. A.

Factories at Peru, Ill.

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New York, November 30, 1918

Whole Number 1493

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TOPICS OF THE - DAY

SHALL WE GO WITHOUT TO FEED GERMANY?

ERMANY HAS ENOUGH FOOD, according to some estimates, to last two-thirds of the time to the next harvest, and workmen along the frontier are reported in cable dispatches as saying that "food-conditions are exaggerated in the press. . . obviously to appeal to the Entente sympathies." German harvests.

fed the population all through
the war, and only a few weeks
have gone by since the 1918
crops were garnered, so that a
famine now would be an economic
phenomenon. Yet the air fairly
thrills with wireless waves pite-
ously begging bread. Shall we
send it, when the scarcity here
makes prices excruciating to the
American poor and to workers
facing unemployment this win-
ter? "They will get some," stern-
ly replies The Journal of the
great flour-milling city of
Minneapolis, "but not until the
mouths of those whom they have
starved have been fed. . . .
When there is a shortage, who
should be fed first, the Belgian
women and children, or the
sniveling Hun?" An examina-
tion of the American press shows
that the German wail, which was
the first sign of life of the new-
born German Government, has
not aroused any large amount of
compassion over here. It is re-
marked everywhere that German
diplomacy, when it began this
latest propaganda, knew that the
Allied leaders, from Premiers
Clemenceau and Lloyd George
and President Wilson down to
the wise country editors all over America, had agreed to
the provisioning of Germany. Does this sudden and con-
tinued whine, in which German diplomats have utilized the
voices of women and children, mean merely that Germany
wants "more," or are we in the midst of another German of-
fensive, a hunger-offensive, intended by its Teutonic contrivers
to split the Allies on the question of pity, provisions, and loving-
kindness for our enemy? "From all this clamor of appeal,"
the usually kind-hearted New York World remarks, "one gets
the idea that the propaganda of Kultur is one institution that
has survived the wreck of revolution and shock of defeat, shorn

not even of its clumsiness." To many observers this "propaganda" is important as the opening gun of Germany's fight for a victory at the peace table. All our late full-Germans, pro-Germans, and pacifists are expected to come out of hiding forthwith and "show mercy to the defeated." "They will

come," predicts the Kansas City Star, "bearing bouquets, asking permission to offer consolation to the prisoner and to leave tracts and flowers in the cell. . . . Heaven spare us now from mush!"

On the basis of a summary of the best available information in the case, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle agrees that the German superdiplomats are resorting "to their old tricks to pull the wool over the eyes of the 'stupid Yankees."" Official advices from Washington and Paris, as this and several other papers point out, indicate that "it is untrue that Germany is starving." She "reaped a harvest only three months ago, and cleared Belgium and northern France of everything." Besides, "she has requisitioned supplies from Roumania and the Ukraine." "Germany has the nerve of a pirate," cries a French editor, "to raise the cry of hunger after robbing us and Belgium." Considering the general food-situation, no less than the resolution adopted at Versailles pledging aid to the Central Powers, our editors agree almost en masse on the "nerve" shown by Dr. Solf's appeals to President Wilson "to save Germany from starvation," and by the German women's use of the government-controlled wireless to send similar appeals to Mrs. Wilson and Jane Addams. "These are they," comments the New York Times, in amazement rather than in anger, after a brief recapitulation of the German attitude toward hunger, deportation, and infanticide in other nations, "who, on the very day of their surrender, begin to use the exposition of their own deprivations as a plea for the mercy they have never shown for the help they have never given!" There is a "peculiar shamelessness" in this attitude, the writer continues:

Keep On
Saving Food

TIMELY ADVICE FROM THE FOOD ADMINISTRATION.

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