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the georgetown herald wednesday april 5th 1944 a further letter from the childrens aid society ialuele no 2 as prepared by tbe as- wfiahon of childrens aid socdsues or ttw proftnoo of ontarvk nuougbout the area m wnich you it may be a city a town or the boundaries of the county there children whom harsh drcum- iobs lmo d off the rights ft m happiness that your children enjoy wot the moment we need not ask why this has happened to them or whose fault it is or wheth- that has made them its victims are mi hat made them us victims are are conditions of society for which we are all responsible there is a long trail or cause and fleet that jeads to broken homes tq irresponsible parenthood to low stan dards of living out of which can come nothing but the stunted lives and souls of children this calls up such reflections upon the organization of human society that most of us im mediately find ourselves in a bog of roomie and political hunting let us at once admit that the un derpinnings of canadian society cry out for enlightened social engineering and that many of our social and hu man probelms stem out from faculty economics nevertheless let us all face our children s problem in canada with informed minds and warm hearts and recognize that there are tools waiting to be usd good tools in every com mimity more tools than there are people using them there are at least 40 000 children in this province who for one reason and another during one year must come under the protection of the children s aid societies of these at least 6000 ohudren have been found to be so utterly deprived of normal home and omre that ouz courts have legally com mltted them as wards of some one of the 68 societies in ontario tens of thousands of others must be tempor arily protected while every effort is made to improve the conditions of their own homes and help advise and educate their parents these are just cold statistical state merits let us use our imaginations a btuel they mean that forty thous nd little boys and girls in this beau ttful province of ontario for some cause have lacked care opportunity l happiness that in a christian country is their birthright nameless babies placed out in squalor and neg lect little boys and girls so neglected physically that their clothes have had to be burnt and their bodies rid of vermin and some even sent to hospl tal to bring them back to health children with the blight of their par ents vices beginning to tarnish their own innocence children if not ac tually abused and neglected siitriik physically and spiritually from discord and incapacity and low intelligence wlthm the home and sometimes children living impoverished lives be cause a loving mother has been de sorted or a hard working careworn father has been left to fill a mothers place it was for such children as these that about 70 years ago and through the efforts of a few great humanitar ians our world began to bestir itself it was a benevolent english business man who having seen the beginning of the child welfare movement in new york brought the idea of a society to protect children to england he went to a meeting of the liverpool so ciety for the protection of animals and standing up in the audience said t am here f6r the prevention of cruelty to animals and i cannot draw the line at children i famous philanthropists took up the challenge societies sprang up the great lord shaftesbury father ed the first protection act in 1889 it was the beginning of a new era toronto saw the first efforts in on arto to establish a law to protect the child even against its own parents a shelter for abandoned waifs and re uhtioni to orevent hundreds of little boys and girls begging selling papers or shoe laces these conditions had aroused the strong sympathies of a reporter on the toronto globe mr j j kelso who really became the father of the first children s aid society in canada as elsewhere the movement was bound up with protection for anl mals and jt is an arresting fact that the first response to this dual move ment on the part of the toronto ci v o nril was a drinking trough for horses in 1887 the children came after it was several years after this first stirring of child welfare in toronto that a group of people in winnipeg went into a meetrnr of the socihv for the prevention of cruelty to ani mals and submitted a motion that this work be extended to include the homo irs children running the streets of this expanding new city it is a fact that argument was raised that if the cr lldren were included then the dog and cats would not get adextuate pro tetion it is a matter of record thnt nn elderlv spinster on the platform rose and clutching her mtue pet doe in her arms spoke stronglv against the mtlon pin all v dean mater archbishop mi beson who was the chairman said ml who ant to fight fnr the childn go to he left and all who want to ro to the don stay on the right believe it or not that meetiir car rled for the dois and cats flevrn of thr peoole who wrr there wen out ai d inplied for i charter to s irt a children s aid society five lean years and here is the food britain will eat not until 1900 first year of world surpluses will you be able to shop as freely at the grocers butchers and dairy as you did in 1030 this is tic eet opinion of food experts who analysed the prospects for britain s menu vive lean years are just begin- nlnvoolonel uewellln wood minister has given that warning he added we are going to be very short of meat and dairy produce for a considerable number of years after this war is won it may ba rather a gloomy picture but unfortunately it is a true one experts assured me however that we shall not go short of nourishing food and every year a lew more com modi tics will get less scarce ibere should be more medlterran ean fruit in 19451 1946 will see more fish highlight of 1047 which the ex ptrus ste is the turning point in the it in years will be the first bananas dairy produce will be coming in u re uif suplics in 1945 sweeis come off the ration in 1949 then in 1950 the pre wir days of plei ty with til icl crcan n is i tht uljl of fare food experts drew up 1944 cut in tht meat ration is pos sible later this year butter and mar garine may get scarcer it tnere are big demands from llbcratea countries pats will be one of the big world shortages but the milk ration should remain unchanged there will be fewer shell eggs and less tinned fruits and jams as the de veloplng pacific ofenshe increases the burden on australian resources the sugar ration will be maintained guaranteed by home grown sugar for variety you will have to look to such imported oranges and lemons as shipping permits next christmas ma see some figs raisins dates and nut on the market 1945 slightly more im orted mut ton and lamb but beef may be scarcer seeing soldiers do not like mutton as we get more men in action thtr will be less beef for civilians r vi 1 biul x vcaric md pot i toes may not be so plentiful because of the needs of the people in liberated countries milk maj be scarcer beca t of th w rl reduction in herns o ou can look forward to conslderiblj nore fr nt i om th medtervian area 1946 more home fed meat beef and pork and a probable trickle of un ports from the cont i t t tj e nn be fish from scai d i uli ad dtn roauce irom the ljov coiiurks lite in the year supplies of butter cooking fats and potatoes and tinned foods will still be restricted because of the needs of the liberated peoples 1047 rationing begins to ease prime nsh will be landed in plenty as more deepsea trawlers are released from patrol work quanoues of stone fruit such as cherries will come from prance margarine goes off the ration as edible oil imports increase empire cheese and honey imports arrive with a greater variety of fruit including possibly your first bananas grape fruit peaches pineapples and big car goes of apples 1941 this may be a bumper the food experts even look forward to some strawberries from prance and phntv of b man is meat rationing will be relaxed as world supplies increase british farmers will have got over the urgency of the wheat and milk drive and be getting back to beef prj duction imports of dairy produce will in crease from the low countries in 1939 wl bought 34 000 000 worth from denmark alore more sugar and liquid milk more canned goods 1949 chocolate and sweets come of tht rati n and jams return to normal fruit and fish will be plentiful with n t re meat of all kinds j shell eggs are more plentiful and there is table poultry for all salads i arrive from the continent early po tatoes from the channel islands to matoes are on the counter and bis cults of the ration 1950- heal l t crtam milk off the ration apples all the year round driei fruits and nuts kruyere caihemdtrt brie and 3tllton cheeses in fact back to 1939 wlu i whele lis li dthjdrated products to lull kii or if ou like to take jo m d ba jtu the dajs of 1944 britain s bread for the lean years is salt the farmers p oughlng jp programme winch is adding anoint 700 000 acres of corn to the nation s in i will ruch its peax in 1947 mea and fats are the biggest pro blem much here depends on how tht second front dcilops whether wes tern europt is hid waste ii battle c whither q lick ictories will enable the un rati i lai ds o k 1 p u t oi again golden harvest chick starter 18 pc the start means everything make sure you have a topquality chick starter on hand to give young chicks the right start you will appreciate the uniform goodness of golden harvest chick starter 1 8 a complete balanced diet for baby chicks results prove the quality k j brown georgetown tel 8 r 4 uac-j- room for everybody production men imepbci constant touch witk sources of i alt suppliers of parts all government and milt tary authorities the armed forces ponsibility for training and supply for troop movements for opera tion on land air and ocean battle routs government officials- touch with every phase of oar production and military program with foreign governments with national and international 1 agencies est and mos c i ic 1 exalt barrage oi the war eq ip i w th bill i u4 names make sj the names in this newspaper that interest you most are names of boys you know who are on active service boys from this community you used to read their names in school reports in church and sunday school items in news of sport you read these names today in news from the fighting fronts so often now these names make sad news lets do all we can to hasten the day when our newspapers can tell of happy things yes we can do something to hasten that glad day when we do this job we help to win victory sooner we help to end the war sooner and we do something to benefit ourselves the job that we are asked to do is to save our money and lend it to our country as each new fighting front is opened more money is needed more people must be ready to furnish this money more victory bonds will be issued those who have not bought victory bonds before must buy them those who have bought bonds must buy more we are not asked to give we are just asked to lend we will have money fox things we plan to do after the war dedicate yourself to this war effort something you can do one thing you must do yovur help is urgently needed a newspaper aaytxif naznea mmkm ato victory bonds nttieoml war nam qamaitfte