Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1917 — A Practical War Proposal. [ARTICLE]

A Practical War Proposal.

Senator Hale, of Maine, makes a very practical proposal in a resolution providing that German prisoners of war be transferred from" Great Britain and France to this country. Great Britain and France are caring for hundreds of thousands of prisoners of wtar. We are straining every effort to get fcod to these nations, a part of which must be used in feeding war prisoners. If those captured Germans and Austrians are transported to this country we can feed the m without having to ship food thousands of miles to them. That ailso would make available to the armies and civil population of our allies a larger percentage of the food we do succeed in getting past the submarines. Furthermore, if our shops return to this country loaded with prisoners of war there will be little danger from submersibles on the return trip. And there is another consideration. If it were to become generally noised about fin Germany that prisoners are transported to America where there is plenty to eat, the temptation o surrender might be afanost irreriastaftde.