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_ORVAL BYER Deuggist Port Perry See our stock of "SWEATER COATS UN DERWEAR BOOTS & 8 : PRICES RIGHT J.B McCLI? NTOCK Port Perry ~~ - | OUR MOTTO "Service and Quality" + When you need meat, you need choice meat. Do you realize what this means to you? Cail and convince yourself or pheae : Bell 29. § for which that power mast be used to do our share to "win-the-war." 0 to relieve their brothers i in the ~ It 18 not within our province to drding - the duties imposed upon Men in authority have the fighting capacity? It can be done if the matter receives the careful con= sideration that is accorded to the soldier. 'We need food. We me > foo food if the farmers are supphed with seed, feed, credit, th attack to that word "NEED: wh production, 'There is no use e quibbling about what the Government may or may not do. They may do what the | needs of the case require. Because the Government has sent soldiers to ) protect me and mine, and my property, that 'Government has a perfect right | to expect' reasonable service from ~ me--service such as shall materially jist in winning the war. And by the same token, reasonable service car Xe demanded of ™ too. - When the Government expects serd equipment is ovided for. that soldier with which tg "the farmer. Production will require equipment and that equipment will have to be of a character suited to the individual needs of the farmer. Last week we outlined a method by' which these needs could be ascertained, and this is the time to do the job, Every little while a campaign 1s started for greater production, and each time the cry is raised --"Oh, it's too late to start that now. Practi- cally everything is settled for this year.": That sort of "put-it-ofi" idea certainly brings results, but they are the results we want to avoid. We must start greater production some time and NOW is the accepted time. But what can the Government do aside from finding out the needs of the farmers? They can supply those needs. More than that the Government has taken many steps towards supplying those needs, but the farmers have not always met these advances half way. "The needs are roughtly summed up under four headings ~labor, "seed, feed, credit, ' is When the farm labor situation is investigated, it is surprising how " much there was available last year, and how uncertain was the demand. The Government representative dealing with matter in Toronto, says that the supply far exceeded the demand. At one time the situation was serious, for fear there would be a reaction upon the part of those who were supplying the labor, because the farmers. would not become re- sponsible for any man or number of men for any given length of time. Herein lies the heart of the farm labor problem. Many farmers have been getting along with a man upon such odd days as they most 'needed help. These odd job men are out of the labor market now. La- bor is too independent in these days to be. put on and off like an old shoe. x There 1 may be-an element of hardship for some farmers in this fact, "but the farmer will have to face the problem as it is, and not as they would like it to be. That 1s what the rest of us bave to do. ~ When we 'want a man we must hire him more or less permanently, must pay him The land can produce more facilities for production--labor, pon the seriousness which we 'talk about the need for greater ge - current wages, and must retain him even when we have little for him "to do. = The Government can find out what labor the farmer needs, and if a labor is supplied, then certainly the responsibility of employ- "ment can in some measure be placed up She man who stated that he 5 d properly store t harvest his crop, e crop, the the service. Just so- with } CS B-MZ [ll a2 . tributed to the farmers without undue advance in price, Somewhat similar methods could be adopted regarding fee that transportation plays a more important part in this connection: the Government is going to control the industrial and agricultural inter- ests of Canada for the country's welfare, it is difficult to understand How they can succeed without being able in large measure to direct. matters of transportation. The railways could all be taken over by the Govern+ ment--those that pay well like the C.P R., and those that do not pay so well, like the G.T.R. Credit for the farmer, freauently resolves itself into a question as to whether the farmer is willing to make the investment of his money. He sometimes has an undue fondness for "money in the bank." Drainage and fertilizers may be much more profitable, but some farmers hate to take the money out of the bank. But there are many farmers who could and would make wise use of credit, and to them it should be readily available. Of course there should be proper restrictions as some of the proceedings among alleged French- Canadian farmers last year would indicate. The foregoing outline will give some idea of what the Government CAN do. There will probably be some such program developed if the need for greater production becomes more acute. The drive which ne- cessity imposes will determine the action of the future. The farmers are the most important class of men in Canada to-day, and this is the time for them to make any necessary demands for such facilities as are essential for greater production. ---------- a 3 Gs re ---- Wm. Stiith's Official Majority is 1777 i Returning Officer Makes Final Count Sy x Whitby Gazette Returning Officer J. W. Crozier was 46 in Whitby on Wednesday taking the be 'he 60 official count of the ballots cast in the aaa avass 29 recent election, his final summiug up giving a majority of 1777 to the suc- 317 445 cessful candidate, Mr, Wm Smith. Majority for Smith 128 The ballots were, of course, not counted. The Returning Officer un- SCUGOG locked the boxes for the first time 54 63 since election day, and took a copy of ; we the returns made on the blank yn Majonty for Smith 9 by the Deputy Returning Officers. PICKERING TOWNSHIP The returns showed a total of 7061 ovseniasitias ii 43 47 good ballots cast in the riding of| 2 ... ... 104 99 South Ontario, of which Mr Smith re- Feet ae DE 47 ceived 4419, and Mr Sinclair 2462, i i 24 leaving a majority of 1777 for Mr wi sh 47 Smith. 54 It was a matter of interest as to i 109 whether the defeated candidate would - ae 99 lose his $200 deposit, to save which he ian iy 49 must have half as many votes as his a " 76 opponent. The returns show that Mr 45 33 Sinclair is quite safe in this regard, nine unless the soldiers' vote, yet to. be 546 684 recorded, gives a very large figure for Majority tor Smith 138 Mr Smith. The returns in detail were as fol- WHITBY TOWNSHIP lowing: . 57 90 WHITBY TOWN Bu iif 125 Sinclair Smith . 5 128 RAR 95 347 78 Majority for Smith: 116 114 108 EAST WHITBY ------ '49 518 ? 45 Majority for Smith, 333 81 OSHAWA He oe 5 48 3 ps & 1% 2 0 3 87 ; a \ : 461 4--A-L 7" Majority for Smith 75 MZ | 59 AL 26 PORT PERRY To ee a SR 8 100 wine 18 Bn 2 id 60 tate ok 106 2% 52 Majority for Smith 122. $ RESUME OF VOTES CAST 81m 161s |Whithy Town... 185 S18 jority for Smith 856 wo... 817 1673 Lm YT 106 eWsisnnn