ations while maintaining the morale of the Allies through scientific
food distribution and a host of other patriotic civilians who put the
resources of the nation behind the military and naval forces opposed to
Germany. Every available loom was put at work to make cloth for the army
and the navy, the leather market was drained of its supplies to shoe our
forces with wear adapted to the drastic requirements of modern warfare.

German capital invested in American plants was placed under the
jurisdiction of A. Mitchell Palmer as Alien Property Custodian. German
ships were seized and transformed into American transports. Physicians
over military age set a glorious example of patriotic devotion by their
enlistment in thousands. Lawyers and citizens generally in the same
category as to age entered the office of the Judge Advocate General or
the ranks of the Four Minute Men or the American Protective League which
rendered great service to the country in exposing German propaganda and
in placing would-be slackers in military service. Bankers led the mighty
Liberty Loan and War Savings Stamp drives and unselfishly placed the
resources of their institutions at the service of the government.

Women and children rallied to the flag with an intensity of purpose,
sacrifice and effort that demonstrated how completely was the heart of
America in the war. Work in shops, fields, hospitals, Red Cross work
rooms and elsewhere was cheerfully and enthusiastically performed and
the sacrifices of food rationing, higher prices, lightless nights,
gasolineless Sundays, diminished steam railway and trolley service were
accepted with a multitude of minor inconvenience without a murmur.
Congress had a free hand in making appropriations. The country approved
without a minute's hesitation bills for taxation that in other days
would have brought ruin to the political party proposing them. Billions
were voted to departments where hundreds of thousands had been the rule.

[Illustration: Map of the United States]
THE UNITED STATES AN ARMED CAMP
The map shows the location of the camps where the National Army and
the National Guard were trained for war. Afterwards the entire forces
were known as the United States Army

The true temper of the American people was carefully hidden from the
German people by the German newspapers acting under instructions from
the Imperial Government. Instead of the truth, false reports were
printed in the newspap