The Ogden Standard

United States Is Alarmed
LONG WAR PREDICTED—FOOD TO BE SEIZED

U-BOAT MENACE ALARMING U. S.
Four Hundred Thousand Tons of Shipping Sunk by Germans in Week.
SERIOUS PROBLEM
Study of Inventions to Combat Enemy Submarines Being Diligently Pursued.

WASHINGTON, May 2—Secretary Lane told the governors conferring here today with the council of national defense on the part state governments will take in the war, that the federal government had heard 400,000 tons of shipping had been sunk in the last week by German submarines.

The destruction, Secretary Lane said, was not only threatening the existence of England and France, but was alarming the United States. Study of inventions to combat the submarine menace is being diligently pursued in the interior department, he said.

Secretary Lane declared he believed the war would last several years and that every resource of the country must be brought into place to bring it to a successful conclusion.

"Many persons thought," said Secretary Lane, "that all we had to do was to issue bonds and that Germany would bow her head in submission. Nothing could be farther from the truth. We do not know when this war will end. It may not be a one-year war. Personally, I believe it will last several years."

Hoover Informs U. S.
Herbert C. Hoover has informed this government that Germany has food enough to last two years, perhaps longer.

"Germany has put up the greatest fight of history and she has the advantage of now fighting a defensive warfare. Don't go back home and inspire your people with the thought that immediate action can bring this war to an immediate end. Your people must look to this year's crop and next year's crop, and the next after that.

"We can't afford to fail in this war. Every man in the country is involved in this work and every man in the country is a soldier."

The United States must build ships as rapidly as possible, Lane told the delegates.

"If we don't fight the war on the other side," he said, "we shall have to fight it on this side of the Atlantic."

Lane Warns People.
Secretary Lane warned his hearers against discontent and attack on the government. Always, he said, there is dissatisfaction with those who are directing a war and he urged his hearers to base their criticism on facts and not on rumor.

Secretary Baker asked the state representatives to co-operate with the government in putting into operation the army draft law. He told of military and industrial preparations, and described difficulties the government faces in raising the greatest army in the history of the country, and of the need of supplies, especially farm products and ships.

States Should Aid.
The states, Secretary Baker said, can assist the government by giving support to the draft, aiding recruiting and seeing to it that proper exemptions are enforced and that men needed at home are not sent into the army.

"We are not going to work," he said, "with our right hand or our left hand, but with both hands, and every man in the country can aid."

Secretary Daniels asked the aid of the states in recruiting the naval personnel to 150,000 men, after the new bill is passed.

Later, at the state department, Secretary Lansing, in response to inquiries, said:

"It may as well be recognized that the submarine situation is very serious."

FOOD SUPPLIES TO BE SEIZED
Government to Take Possession of Part of Nation's Supply, Says an Official.

CHICAGO, May 2.
—Plans to seize at least a part of the nation's food supply are being considered by the United States government.

This was indicated today by District Attorney C. F. Clyne, who within the last few days conferred in Chicago on the food supply.

He declared that any further information must come from Washington.
FRENCH COMMISSIONERS SNAPPED WITH SECRETARY LANSING IN WASHINGTON