Tell them that from 1916 to 1918 Great Britain increased her tillage area by four million acres: wheat 39 per cent, barley 11, oats 35, potatoes 50--in spite of the shortage of labor.

She used wounded soldiers, college boys and girls, boy scouts, refugees, and she produced the biggest grain crop in fifty years.

She started fourteen hundred thousand new war gardens; most of those who worked them had worked already a long day in a munition factory.

These devoted workers increased the potato crop in 1917 by three million tons--and thus released British provision ships to carry our soldiers across.

In that Boston speech which one of my correspondents referred to, our Secretary of the Navy did not mention this.