For you it's Uncle Sam!" Whereupon, with a winning and fascinating manner that seemed to Kurt at once intimate and flattering, he began to talk fluently of the meaning of his visit, and of its cardinal importance.

The government was looking far ahead, preparing for a tremendous, and perhaps a lengthy, war.

The food of the country must be conserved.

Wheat was one of the most vital things in the whole world, and the wheat of America was incalculably precious--only the government knew how precious.

If the war was short a wheat famine would come afterward; if it was long, the famine would come before the war ended.