“The food wanted by man- Rind does not exis. _ The word ‘shortage’ is not The whole world is up —Lord Rhon dda, sae Britain’s Food Controller. - One year ago, only the enemy was on rations. : To-day, Great Britain, France and Italy, areonrations, = To-day, Germany controls the wheat lands of Roumania, Russia, Poland and Ukrania. ‘To-day, the shadows of hunger, famine, disease and death hang over the- Allies. Upon the 1918 crop from Canada and the United States depends the fate of the democratic peoples of the world. If that crop is sufficient the Allies can be fed. If that crop is not sufficient the. Allies may have to accept a German peace. That Battle-Line in France and Flanders Must Not Want Do you realize what a German Peace _ would mean to Canada? Germany covets our natural resources —our agricultural and mineral wealth, our forests, our fisheries, everything that is Canada’s. : Germany won't be satisfied with Euro- pean territory, with teeming masses, wrang- ling factions and depleted natural resources. She wants colonies—big, thinly-populated countries in temperate zones for her sons and daughters to go to propagate their kind. The Kaiser would sacrifice millions of Ger- mans to-morrow if he thought that by so doing he could set foot on Canada’s shores as Con- queror. And what's more, the Germans would offer themselves for the sacrifice, so great is their sub- jection to the military ideal. The only thing that balks German ambition is that battle line from the North Sea to Switzer- Jand—and the British Navy. The Only Thing That Sustains Our Men on Land and Sea--Is Food What are we, each one of us, prepared to do to insure that Food supply? Germany, by her submarine campaign, has seen that great Armada, the British Mercantile Marine, shrink in volume. Germany has seen South America, Austra- lia, New Zealand, India and far away outposts of the Empire practically cut off from supplying ar to the Motherland because of the lack of ships. : Forty million Allied men and women having been put on war work, food production has dan- _ gerously decreased in Europe. These forty million consume more food than’ when they were in ordinary occupations, and there are fewer men for farming. Hence an in- - creased demand and decreased supplies. - The harvest of France was one-third less in 1917 than 1916, and this year must be smaller still, owing to lack of fertilizers, which cannot be supplied through shortage of shipping. The world’s decrease in live st mes to 1913, is approximately = Herbert Pees Says ao] “Our European Allies are dependent upon us for greater quantities of food than we have ever before exported. They are the first line of our defence. Our money, our ships, our life blood, and not least of all, OUR FOOD supply, must be of a common stock. : “In pre-war times, Britain, France, Italy and Belgium yearly imported more than 750,000,- 000 bushels of grain, plus vast quantities of meats and fats. z “The submarine destruction of shipping has made it necessary to abandon the hope of bring- ing food from South America, Australasia and India. “Food must, therefore, be shipped from Canada and the United States—the nearest and safest route. : adian and United States supplies are normally 350,000,000 bushels short of the AL lied needs. By greater production and conserva- tion Canada and the United States _ is mighty pride, a conscious measuring of their stock, as m= 115,000,000 glory with the best traditions of ancient Sparta, i and of Imperial Rome, for Britons know. that upon them rests the burden of saving humanity. The story of their service shall ring and echo for- ever along the hill tops of history. - Allies Is Not Charity It is war. The Allies have a right to demand it. They have a right to resent the offer of only what is “‘left over.”” Those who are fighting the | common battle for civilization and for our pro-— tection have a higher claim than had Lazarus, to only the “crumbs that fall from the rich man’s be 2 e Canadian people must recognize that Our Allies es i a supplies. g 3 ‘As the shipping situation makes the Allies dependent upon the North erican continent for food, it is vitally necessary that ada should increase her production of food in order to take a larger part in providing for the Allies’ requirements. This is especially urgent as the maintenance of a large United States army in the European ~ field will cause a must combine to increase the ex- port of grain by 150,000,000 bushels. “The remain- ing shortage “of 200,000,000 bushels must be overcome by greater reduction in consumption in the allied coun- tries. And this is being done by Britain, F rance and Italy ration- The Heart of This Problem is Labour Without More Farm Labour More Food Cannot be Produced very heavy drain on that country’s food resources. There must be no peace withou' victory. * For nearly four years Ger- many has struggling against the pow- ers of law and or- der. She has fail- ed so far to make good her escape with her booty 7 To Send More Food to Our | have the first claim on our food ing their people. “From two and a half years of contact with the German If you really want to serve your Country in a big practical way, register now for farm labour, or urge or assist your male superior strengt and skill. And now she is at- Army Ihave come out of the horror with the employees to do so. propaganda to di- vert the attention complete convic- tion that autocracy is a political faith and a sys- tem that directly endangers and jeopardizes the future of our race—that threatens our very in- dependence. It has, however, been able to com- mand a complete inspiration of devotion and self-sacrifice in its people to the interest of their nation. The Gerrian farmer, in the name of the Fatherland, supports a nation two-thirds as large as the United States and threatens to subject the world from an area one-half the size of Ontario. “My vision of war is not of an academic problem to be solved by discussion. To me it is a vision of brave, dying men and suffering wo- men and children, for service on whose alf the greater exertion of the Allies’ farmers comes as a direct necessity and a direct plea. The Can- adian and the United States citizen who sees war see it, needs no inducement and no inspira- tion but the thought that every spade full of earth turned, and every animal reared is lessen- jing human suffering and guaranteeing the lib- erty of the world.” Lloyd George’s Warning “I fear the disciplined people behind the Ger- man Army, the rationed family and the deter- mination of wife and sister and daughter and mother to stand and starve—so that their fight- ing men may be fed—I fear it more than the Im- perial German Army itself.” Britain is now on Food Rations. France is now on Food Rations. : : Italy is on the verge of starvation. Only con- _tinuous support from us can enable us to hold + out. _ Only with a disciplined people behind can we hope to win. ¢ rationed British Nation, blood of our blood, bone of our bone, are proud- ly paying the price and sharing with France and Italy their limited stock of food. For in this there of her antagon- ists from the struggle itself, and thus to gain her ends by re- laxing the strength and skill of her antagonists. she can gain from these tactics is plain to all the world in the sorrowful experience of Russia. Germany's most dangerous weapon is not her Zeppelin—that is obsolete. Not her subma- rine—that can be t machine- like army—that has been repeatedly hurled back by the living armies of freemen. Her most dangerous weapon is her propaganda of peace. While with her hands she murders and de- spoils, with her voice she invites to parleys. When Liberty is in Peril There is Threat of Lasting Disaster in the Very Word “Peace” Lord Leverhulme, long known in Canada as Sir William Lever, who knows well the German mind, in a recent interview stated: “You will never be able to dictate terms to Germany ~_ she is beaten. The argument you mention is founded on the dangerous nie e is there any sign How can any lover of liberty remain sible to this peril? oa s ‘ood means Victory and the world made safe for democracy—= kes . Lack of food means disaster and subjugation to Germany. ? SRS The Citizens of Ontario Must Lead This Mighty Crusade | for Greater Food Production | They did it last year and will do it again. 5 As the greatest food-producing Province, Ontario must maintain her leadership in Ameri- ca. Great are our opportunities—our responsi- — bility is tremendous. < z Shoe, Upon every man and woman, boy and girl, rests a personal obligation to serve. Every pound of food produced, in whatever form, is a contribution to the Cause of Freedom. _ . Ontario farmers should sow 500,000 acres of spring wheat. <a very Ontario farmer whose land is at all — suitable should put an extra five acres into wheat, even at the expense of another crop. | What YOU Can Do to Help | At all costs p n must That’s why farmers and farmers’ sons are being exempted from military service. Working on a farm is equivalent to service in the Second Line Trenches. To enable the farmer to do the work two fac- tors are essential. The first is Time. Whatever we are to do must be done at once. Nature waits for no man. The second is Labor. Many farmers cannot plant the ates they would because they cannot get the necessary help. Many are afraid to increase their acreage because they fear they would not be able to cultivate and harvest an un- usual crop after they had raised it. The burden is not one to be placed solely upon the farmer. Neither can it be placed upon the townsman, It is a personal obligation upon every man, woman, boy and girl, in every farm, town and city home in the Province of Ontario. AWAY WITH CRITICISM—CO-OPER- ATE! Mr. City man, don’t say that the farmer should do so-and-so, and thus allow criticism in this hour of our Nation's peril to cripple your effort. : Mr. Farmer, don’t hastily under-estimate the value the city man can be to you. Get Together in the Fight For Liberty Let us not lament what MIGHT be, but earnestly face what MUST be. Fifteen thousand boys between the ages of fifteen and nineteen must be organized as “‘Sol- diers of the Soil” to work on Ontario farms this season. Farmers can get one or more of these boys by applying to their District Representatives or to the Public Employment Bureaux at Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton or London. Unmarried men, exempted from military service, are urged to take up farm work. Mar- ried men who have had previous experience on a farm are urged to resume farm work for a sea- son. Employers of labor are asked to assist men to take up farm work. We urge the farmers and the townsmen to get together for greater production in the inter- ests of a free people and democracy. Let the Organization of Resources Commit- tee, your District Representatives or the Public Employment Bureaux act as your intermedi- aries. ‘When we have done our best, the cry for food cannot be wholly met. For the rest—our Allies belts. ‘ Organization of Resources Committee. Parliament Buildings, Toronto Ontario. CHAIRMAN: His Honor Sir John S. Hendrie, CVO, 1 {iGovernor of Ontario. VICESCHAIR® are tightening their V0.5 r VICE-CHAIR- MEN; Honorable Sir William H. Hearst, K.C.M.G, Prime Minister of Ontario; William Proudfoot, Esq. K.C., Leader of the Opposition. SECRETARY + Albert H. Abbott, Esq, _ The only - Navy. The only thing that sustains our men on land thing that balks German ambition is the battle line in France and-—-the British | and sea is Food. — (little time at least. An American au-| ority is of the opinion that soft al can be prepared for domestic ing i: way, that does away wi in this w: en this month |tore a hole in her stout. tea: timbers. ‘also from his wife and chi : ‘ 4 los- |two to di {to do this. her eventful history the Suc- will ‘or several years at the bot- the house and 3 the smi seum of the horro’ Many people wonder why February | should have only 28 days. It origin-'shi ally had’ 30; but when the name 0: ion in the Unite the month ‘of August was ged c from Sextilis to August, in honor of |second time a few days ago—strange- Imperor Augustus, it was considered |ly enough not at sea, but in the Ken- that a month so greatly honored \tucky River. 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