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Donohue, Ord 1 after working briskly all the morni: rder was restored, the mills were bo suddenly collapsed with "% running full time, Millvale was pros- Y lef, erous again, ~The regiment which [he SLURP 0 ero toa a hel so much for the 3 3 : place was ot camp--and on the | &d aud ladjented, while the free dill, same day a number ot families were | Coen about her, interested. an moving away from their homes. | 7 pen Tei Walking through the town for a| "It's taking the heart out of my last survey, Roger Trask paused in| Dody to be taking 'me out of this front' of a house that was eing dis. | room," Jerry heard her cry as he mantled," Chairs and bedding stood | climbed the stairs. *"Twas in this on the sidewalk; at the curb, attached | 700m my man died, with his head by | to an open wagon, a gaunt horse eyed yonder window,' where he could be the furniture ; Hund a small Poy | looking to the sun in the west; and so stood at the horse's head. The thing it Was I have been thinking to die all that had caught Trask's attention these years myself, with my fingers was a white dove, a trium h| plucking at the same quilt that 'his of the taxidermist's skill, with] ands went straying and wandering an arrow thrust through its about on, and the same bit of sky breast; it reposed against a back- sending the last light to my eyes as ground of rushes and was encompass-| to his. When you're old, you want ed by a gilt frame. Underneath the'"® change whatever to come to you, bird in illuminated characters were 80d When you're poor, it's only a the words, "At Rest." This memorial | emblem had been placed for the mo- ment on a table. "Where are you going, son?" Trask asked the boy. "Into the city." to you." "Well, there you're wrong now," Jerry broke in cheerfully. "Do you know what kind of a change is com- ing to me? Wait till I tell you. I've change for the worse that does come! With the insistent note of a clarion call to service, the message has gone forth: "To the farms)" 5 For months past it 'has wavered across the country, and the echo has been caught up and thrown back from time to time. But now it comes with a direct challenge that is as ir- resistible as the soldier's bugle call. . It! sounds. from end to end of the country. Men and women are hearkening. They are thinking about it; talking about it. But there is no time to play battledore and shuttle- cock with such an issue. = There must be 'action--immediate, clear-cut, whole-hearted action. : _ The challenge is to men and wome: alike. Equality of services demand. ed of them. Employer and employee are asked to help; the rich and the poor; the busy and the idle. - There is no intention that any industry: be put out of joint or business disorgan- ized. There is every intention that all the resources of the country be judiciously used in making the most of Canada's harvest this year. The need is imperative. Nothing can off. set thig fact. : What the women of Europe have done to save the crops is an old tale; yet ever new in the wonder of it. What the women of Canada have done in this line is negligible yet, although there has been some brave pionéering in Eastern Ontario, and for years past in the West, when no other labor was obtainable, the farmer in desperation enlisted his wife's help in the outdoors. ands of men who are daily sacrificing Not even the deeds of the thous-] to He For Food Saving ht men were suddenly called to arms and the crops would have rotted had they not harvested them that the women first showed their mettle and rose to the esqzion Jolutarily: As Lloyd George said of them: } grip of grim tragedy. In Flanders, girls hi . thémselves - to heavy barges and plod along the towpath, thanking God they've released--not a In Russia and Italy the women plow, sow and reap. Even on the beau Riviera the shadow of war has fall and the young girls in the work of | transportation stagger under kegs : of wine or watér weighing eighty pounds. In Scotland, girls single turnips, plant potatoes, drive horses and carts in the fields, and help in every kind of farm work. In Britain to-day, there are 5,000,000 women taking the places of men in various forms of work. There ard 300,000 engaged in agricul. tural work alone. \ | The women of Canada can do these things. They have been spared the suffering and the humiliation of the women of invaded countries. They have had few material privations, even in three and a half years of war. They have worked splendidly, and r Aid in This the |" "They know their country is inthe man, but & Horse to help in the war." lier to go 'woman. It is for ord a Kopi o and Tar hn 10 she is a giv) of leisure; 11 js up to oes "In short--every woman and every teen-age girl can do SOMETHING during July sf Au rds as- ye all ana of those crops which Nature so bounti. fully yields, war or no war. It is one of the biggest things ever asked of a 3 sake of o Allies. But most of all--for our men "over there." They provide the ir- resistible argument why every woman should turn her hand to food conserva- tion, to food production, or to bath. Food Control Corner Bolsheviki doctrines have brought time and again they have reiterated thelr desire to do everything asked of them by the Government, Indeed, they have pleaded for a wider field of activity. They have had the answer now. The | way has been clearly indicated. The greatest need of the hour is for labor on the farms. Mr, Henry B. "What will your father do there?" just found it out this minute, from "My father's dead." told Trask that the bereavement was You cling to so miserly. of recent occurrence; he touched the |the look-in at the job of a cop. It's | the colonel of the regiment, him that| The gulp that followed the words | handed Peter the five«dollar bill that' I'm-torhave/ hoy's shoulder and said sym ical. | wearing a blue coat and brass buttons I said sympathetical- | 0 a helmet that I'l be; with # small Have you any|club hanging at my side in great dignity. © And from being a cop Ii} be made a lieutenant, and then I'll be { a captain, and after that, no doubt, a "Oh, I'm sorry. sisters?" "Two." "And a mother?" "Mother's dead too." | "Who looks 'after you all?" | "Old Mis' Donohue." that nature, with gold lace as well as brass buttons on my blue coat. And "Well, will you give this to Mrs.| you'll be a very important and re- | general or an admiral or Somletifing of | ; a Donohue and 'tell her it's for you and | Spected family, so there's no use your: sisters?" He slipped a five-| Whatever to sit here lamenting for dollar bill into the boy's hand. the good old days. Get up now, and The boy looked at him, then at the | we'll go out and meet the grand good | money, and said gravely, "Thank | new ones." : you. | "What kind of a rigmarole is this Just as Trask was starting on his! that I'm hearing?" said Mrs. Dono- way, Jerry Donohue, carrying a rock- hue with asperity. "From a cop to ing chair piled high=with pillows and an admiral! If our ill-fortune has blankets, came out of the house. | gone to your head,.it's no more than "It's you, Jerry. What are your I've a right to expect." plans?" ! "It's the sober truth I'm telling Jerry set the rocking chair down you; it's the look-in at the Lo of a and drew his sleeve across his moist! cop that's promised me. nd he's forehead. one of the most influential men in the "I think some of getting a job in a|city, so they say. Now won't you be blacksmith shop. 1 guess an iron. the proud woman when first yow see worker might get a chance in such a'me in uniform?" | place. If T don't, I'll find something! "When that time comes!" Yetin We've rented our house here to a wo- | spite of her accent of skepticism Mrs. | man that's going to take in boarders.! Donohue's face had brightened; and| 1 tell you, that's a load off our minds. | she rose quite cheerfully when Jerry| Now that we've got tq move, mother's' said, "Now I must be stealing the| quite keen for going into the city. She chair out from under you, for we've has a good spirit. Oh, I'll find some-' got to be on our way; it's a job thing to de. Got to. I've got quite maybe that won't wait for a lazy # family to bring up and educate-- man." two girls and this boy.' | "I don't believe you're going to be. "Relatives of yours?" a cop," said Peter. | "Well, no," Jerry admitted. "But | "Why not?" they've got nobody else.---Hello, what! "I believe you, Jerry," said Peter's you got there, Peter?" older sister, Kate. "I know you're "He gave it to me," said Peter, ! going to be a ¢op." | showing the bill. { "And what makes you know that?" "Very kind of you," said Jerry. Jerry asked curiously, pausing with "What are we going to buy with that, | the chair hung on one arm. | Peter?" | "I know that you'll always be what Fingering the fortune, Peter con- you say you'll be." The trustful-| fessed himself at a loss. | ness in Kate's gray "Shoes, maybe," suggested Jerry.| as in her voice. "And a hat for Kate and a dress for| Jerry felt absurdly embarrassed by Patty ? Lots and lots of Sings maybe the admiration of the little irl, "Much that we'll buy. Only don't be losing obliged, Kate; you're my friend," he! | i eyes was as calm it; you'd be the wise-fellow if youn took said. "Come on now, everybody, | it in to my mother now," and set sail for the Cape of Good The boy seemed willing to earn a Hope." reputation for wisdom; at any rate, he! at amused Peter, who had recent- went indoors obediently, walking with ly rounded the Cape in gesgTachy, solemn steps, not running like a boy | and confirmed him in his belief that at all. Jerry was a great joker. And at the "You're p well-sel-iD same time it made Kate even more observed Trask. sure that Jerry always meant exactly fellow, Jerry" y don't you try for a place on the police force?" what hegsaid. Jerry rested his hand against the -- 3 'horse's flank and meditated a moment. CHAPTER X. "I would kind of like to be a cop," he said at last. pd would I go shes , Trask 1" y Hy , ok to a civil service | car for the city, where they were to xam and tal, I. enjoy the hospi of aunt, "haven't any t that you could-- | Mrs. Murphy, until he should arrive with a little training and study. The| With the furniture Police oner calls on Civil | among the four rooms of the apart- Service Board for men as he neads ment that they had. hired. ; them, and choose from the list of As he Srv the Scanlans those who have ets house, he felt must run in for "It might orth ing," Jory ust a moment and find out what n't in- admitted. " ng for ! orking at oth: -bye; he od to let her know, ! Bp 8! S0me po food suddenly e { some pects) "Not in the least. When you get|and that hg wou wo! and, settled in your new quarters, come and | Waiting for her. At the corner half a block awa: Jerry saw his family take the trolle he , and] No the Police. Commis wagon end ran up the steps : 11 the inf: press gently Mrs Scanlan © ed the i ny orm oor him 2 There was even:less, cordiality in her vizage than pana nd ch less ¢ ; she loo pov gt £4 tired, hg slatternly dress and disheveled hair betokened a dej spirit. Lipid "You see we're moving, mid fork: ' "You're going to stay on here?" and distribute it Men Must Fight--and Women Must Reap. themselves on the battlefields of Eur- ope have eclipsed the heroism, the en. durance, the patience of the women of France, Belgium and Great Britain. They have known the extremity of suffering. They have tasted the dregs of war. They have lacked the stimulus of the excitement of war. Yet they have nobly "carried on." [Even as their men have fought, * they have worked. What they did in the fields of Eur. ope temporarily staved off the wolf of starvation from the doors of the people. What they did" in'the muni- tion shops kept the guns supplied with shells. What they did in office, in factory, in work-shop, in every phase of industrial life, kept the wheels of commerce turning and steadied" the fluctuating pulse of an over-wrought nation. It was in those early days when the "I don't know." "Has Dave found a job yet?" vig has not." ~ "1 haven't either." Jerry tried hard to corciliate her. "But both land something piety soon, Is Dave at home now, Mrs. Scanlan?" "He is. But he's not to be seen by any one--neither him or his father. suppose, though," --there was 2 gleam of sly malice in the woman's eyes,--"it's really Nora that you're wanting to see?" - "Yes, of course I hoped to wi. Whee ve got to disappoint you. Nora's ne off this Favs with her hus They're buying furniture for their new house." see guess we'll! gi] will help the Thomson, chairman of the Food Board, of Canada in no equivocal terms. The women can answer this call to arms in one of two ways. Either they can go out on the land them- selves, or they can release a man for the period of the harvest. The farmers have dome their share. They are working like slaves, and; their wives are doing no less. They] responded splendidly to the appeal for: increased production earlier in the year, with the result that it is estimat. | ed that there are now 2,600,000 acres pal grain crops in Western Canada. increased acreage, infinitely more serious. estimated that over 100,000 men are negled to gather in this year's harvest. teen-age s have been called upon, and have responded gallantly. : Some thirty thousand Soldiers of the rmers through the arduous period ahead of them. * How about the women? Canada needs her daughters to rally now. She needs the help and the in- ! spiration of every one of them. There 'is none so weak that she cannot do Something, and surely none so craven that she WOULD rot do something No trve Canadian woman would let 3 the grain spoil on the stalk were she actial to see it wasting before her | eye e grain that is now more pre. [ cious than goid o= rubies. 3 00 late, 2 5 ime to act is now! © "Nora's not married!" Jerry's-eyes no less than his voice expressed in- 17 credulity. Lt "Married she is, as fhe Reverend! The Fitch, who pérformed the ce in this house last night, will be i u." > 5 Df Who?" asked Jerry with am ef- forty his voice sounded s y . (To be continued.) * It does not matter a scrap what a]. -| woman is or ever will be; what her social status, her occupation or heri in share of this world's goods. There] is a mew democracy al : 4 Unless the people of- Russia steady has put it up to the men and women | apart. "The nation that will weather more than last year under the princi-| | eriticism and petty fanlt-finding are It stands to reason that if labor weaknesses and dangers. Unity of was scarce before the war, the greatly purpose and constituted leadership is coupled with the exodus of young men from the farms. to join the colors, makes the situation, It has been But when it begins to rot would be | Russia down from one of the greatest food producing countries on the globe to a condition of starvation. = Drunk { with liberty, which they did not understand, filled with idealistic mno- tions about the equality of men, and lacking individual initiative, produc- tion in Russia has practically ceased, according to the evidences reaching the outside world. Transportation and distribution is so disorganized that even were the peasants of the land producing' their usual amount of foodstuffs, the people in the manu- facturing population would still be without the necessary food supplies to| sustain them in safety and comfort. down and organize themselves or allow other authorities" to' organize them, there is the possibility of one of the 'most stupendous disasters to & nation and a great people that every occurred in history. Without authority for whom they have fear and' respect, the Russian peasant seems to be with-- out motive or initiative. = We read of peasants in their anger against the property holding. class of _ the late aristocrat regime, destroying not only the personal effects of the mobility and the owning class, but the very crops which 'they had themselves under the former social organization produced for the nation at large. In; their re-action against property own- ing, they have destroyed the goose that laid the golden eggs. We read of peasants in certain villages having gone to such extremes as to seize the cattle of the local land owner, now deposed, flay them alive: and turn them loose. Without the old motive of compulsion to cultivate the land for | the land-owner, now that the land has reverted to the peasants and they themselves are the owners, they have neglected to work and to produce. the necessaries of life. To such a pass is the nation drifting that recent dis-- patches have reported that the so- {called Government of present-day | Russia are sending plenopotentiaries so-called 'decadent néighbor to the east, to make arrangements for pro- It is difficult to imagine China, one' of the most densely populated areas in the world, living largely on rice and very meagre fare, having sufficient surplus to feed 150,000,000 people in starving Russia. Bolshevism is sometimes quoted in this country as an ideal, worthy of imitation. The pass to which Russia has drifyed is a warning that Bolshev- ism and insanity are not very far the storm of this war the best, is the nation that organizes most efficiently and disoiplines itself most strictly. | Production must be carried on to a limit of our power. Destructive essential. It is a case of a strong pull, a long pull and a pull altogether, Men must be found for the army, for munition making and for food produc~ "tion. © Non-essential industries must provide men for essential industries. "1 thought I'd stop in and say fo Adunded. st won] Red § s own ears, "Who was Adley = a) Dy soon" sald, replied" Mrs, "Her husband you mean? 'Oh, 't|derful levelling. of grades: . Useful: | Scanlan, She held the oor and gave will be No, surprise to you atall. I's sess and service are the > things zs that 3 «| hi ; rtunity to ti Char oran." 'w " count. shh Sof Samat SE: him, 50. Jhpe iy - { Hor 5 Every woman must search her soul out on the land or a|and' the city while she aa | to China, the formerly despised and | visions to tide them over next winter. | such thing. of bed nowadays--one worth reckoning. | It consists of three boards, a couple of low tressels, mattress more or less stuffed with aw, and three blankets. "No .'ot-water es this says the red-ch sergeant. : You grin, to show your apprecia- tion of the point. If 'the & says so, it is so. And then you ex' amine the structure which is 7 to turn you from a TE, trip" 3 fron flabby, nar 'pamby, puny molly-coddle (the % geant's phraseology, this) into a r : live man. od The boards, you discover, are really boards. There is nothing yielding or elastic about them. To look at them, you might take them for innocent deal boards in need of a scrubbing. But when you have spent one 'night on them you have a fafrly vivid notion of how the ancient martyrs felt after a course on the rack. And the mattress! It is a snare and a delusion! It has lumps in it. There are some big lumps and small lumps, and there" are also spaces where the top and bottom meet through lgck of straw. Still, with luck, you occasionally fall asleep on the lumps, and dream that your ear is on Mount Everest, your shoulder in the Thames Valley, and your legs on an escalator. 4 * But 'you need not worry. The dream & won't last for ever. There are vari ous. ways of waking up. "One is by suddenly striking the ground with your hands, for the tressels raise you only a few inches above it. Another is the, collapse of the tressels (hem- selves. Well, never mind! You have three blankets. iy The civilian idea of a blanket ix something white and fluffy and seft and 'warm. The Army. blanket wi not designed to fulfil these requ 9 bt is fine for cleaning cans- grthe, i «i