Lack of Food -- threa tens the Battle Line "The food wanted by on does not The v aed 'shortage' is not strong ribet io g. ; : the people of ONTARIO India, called 'fam- ce." --Lord. Rhondda, Britain's Food Controller, One year ago, only the enemy was on rations. To-day, Great Britain, France and Italy are on rations. 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 re- sources--our agricultural and min- eral wealth, our forests, our fisheries, everything that is Canada's Germany won't be satisfied «with European territory, with teeming masses, wrangling factions and de- pleted natural resources. She wants colonies--big, thinly-popnlated coun- trices in temperate zones for her sons and daughters to go to propagate their kind, The Kaiser wou! sacrifice millions of Germans to-moarraw if he thaneht that by so doing he cant set foot on Canada's ~hores as Conqueror, And what's more. the Germans would offer themselves for the sacri- fice, so great is their subjection to the military ideal. The only thing that balks German ambition is that battle line from the North Sea to Switzerland--and the British Navy. The Only Thing That Sus- tains Our Mencen Laz and Sea--is Food What are we, each one of us. pre- pared to do to insure that Food supply? Germgny, by her submarine cam- paign, has seen tbat great Armada, 'the British Mercantile Marine, shrink in volume._ Germany has seen South America, Australia, New Zealand. India and far away outposts of the I.mptre practically cut off from supplying food to the Motherland because of the lack of ships. Forty million Allied men = and women having been put on warwork, food production has dangerously de- creased in Europe. These forty million consume more food than when they were-in ordi- nary occupations, and there are fewer men for farming. Hence an . increased demand and decreased sup- 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 eens through shortage of ship- ng. "The world's decrease in live stock, as compared to 1913, is approximate- ly 115,000,000 head. Herbert Hoover Says: "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 oney, our ships, our life blood, and not tcast of all, OUR FOOD supply, must be of a common stoc ¢-war times, Britain, France, Italy and Belgium yearly imported more than 750,000,000 bushels of grain, plus vast quantities of meats and "The submarine destruction of shipping has made it necessary to abandon the hope of bringing food from South Amer- ica, Australasia and Indi * "Food must, there- bone, are proudly paying the price and sharing with France and Ttaly,their lim- ited stock of food. For in this there is mighty pride, a conscious measuring of their glory with the best traditions "of ancient Sparta, 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 hilltops of history. To Send More Food to Our 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 Pprotec- tion have a higher claim than had Laz- arus, to only the "crumbs that fall from the rich man's table The Canadian people must recognize that our Allies have the first claim on our food supplies s the shipping situation makes the Allies dependent upon the North Ameri- can continent for food, it is vitally neces- sary that Canada should i increase her pro- duction of food in order to take a larger part in providing for the Allies' require- . ments. This is ¢s- fore, be ship ped from Canada ana 'the United States -- the nearest and safest route. "Canadian and United Sfates sup- normally 350,000,000 bushels short of the Allied needs. By greater production and con- servation Canada and the United States must combine to increase the ex- port of grain by 150,000,000 bushels. farm la "The remaining shortage of 200,000,- ushels must be overcome by greater reduction in con- sumption in the al- lied countries. And this is being done by Britain, France and Italy rationing her ple "From two and a half years of contact with the German spiration of devotion and -- self-sacrifice in its people to the The heart of this problem is labour. - | pWithout 'more : food cannot he lf you "all want to serve your Country in a big, practical ay, pecially urgent as the maintenance of a arge United States Army in the Euro- pean field will cause a-very heavy drain on that country's re- sources. There must be no peace without vic- tory. For nearly four struggling against the powers law and order. She has failed so far to make good her es- cape with her booty by superior strength and skill. And now she is attempting by more ganda to diver the attention of 'her an- tagonists from. the struggle itself, and thus to gain her ends by relaxing the strength and skill of her antagonists What she can gain from these tactics is out of the horror s f plain to all the world with the complete register ow 7 or in the vl ex- * conviction that auto- | perience of Russia. bel ee political farm ur, 4 Germany's mast aith and a system ° angerous weapon is that nk yd endan- or urge and assist ' ae a oe ig pRers and jeopardizes that 1s obsolete. No the future of our race your male her submarine--that --that threatens our can e overcome. ee . . ine-lik i tas. hewaren employees to ae shar fas ieee been able to com- fh) s0 repeatedly hu rled mand complete in- ° back by the living armies of freemen. Her most dangerous weapon: is her prop- interest of their na- tion. The German 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 aca- demic problem to be solved by yep To me it is a vision of brave, dying m and suffering women and children, lot service on whose behalf the greater exer- tion of the Allies' farmers comes in a direct necessity and a direct plea. The Canadian and the United States citizen who sees war as I see it needs no oa ducement and no inspiration but th thought that every spade full of earth turned and every animal reared is les- sening human suffering and guaranteeing the liberty of the world." Lloyd George's Warning "I fear the disciplined people behind the German Army, the rationed family and the determination of wife and pare end daughter and mother to stand aad starve--so that their fighting men may be fed--I fear it berry than the Imperial German Army it Dritain is now on Food Rations, ------ France is now on Food Rations. Italy is on the verge of starvation. Only continuous support from us can enable us to hold out. Only with a disciplined people behind can we hope to win. The rationed British Nation, blood of our blood, bone of our f aganda of peace. While with hex bands she murders and mone, nol with her voice she invites to parley When Liberty is in Peril There is Threat of Lasting Disaster in the Very Word "Peace"' Lord Leverhulmé;long known in Can- ada as Sir William Lever, who knows well the German mind, in a recent inter- view stated: "You will never be able to dictate terms to Germany till she is beaten. The argument you mention is founded on the dangerous rng that becaus= Germany is sick >f t war she is sic of war in generi .. She isn't. I doubt if her Government is even sick of this war. You've read the speech of that old brig- and, Hertling. Is there any sign of re- pentance in that speech? Is it a chas- tened speech? Is it the speech of a statesman who wants disarmament and a league of catenin? No! Germany is back in her mood of 1914. She believes she is winning the war. She believes she her she HAS won it. better a thousand times that every man in England should be dead than that Germany should issue from this war i ing of a conqueror. You hear people use the phrase, 'to the last '¢ ~ man, and the last shilling,' and you think it is only a bit of rhetoric, but to my mind it's the most solemn and abso- lute truth. I mean when I say it that it would in very truth be a million times better for the people of these islands to be dead, every one of them, rather than live on as the serfs of a triumphant Prussia. How can any lover of liberty remain insensible to this peril? ood means Victory and the world made safe for democrac Lack of food means disaster and sub- jugation to Germany The Citizens of Ontario Must Lead This Mighty Crusade for Greater Food Production They did it last year and will do it again. As the greatest food- producing Prov- ince, Ontario must maintain her leader- ship in America. Great are our oppor- tunities--our peaponedtsitiey is tremen- ous. @ Upon every man and woman, boy and girl, rests a_ personal obligation to serve. Every pound of food produced, in what- ever form, is a contribution to the Cause of Freedom. Ontario farmers should sow 500,000 "ee of spring wheat. ery Oatario 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 production must be main- tained. That's why farmers and farmers' sons are being exempted from military service. W orking on a farm is equivalent to ser- vice in the Second Line Trenches. To enable the farm to do the work two factors are essential. The first is Time, Whatever we are to do must be done at oiice. Hature eats Sie no man, cultivate and harvest an ncisuat 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 ands girl, in evéry farm town and city home in the Province of Ontario. AWAY WITH CRITICISM--CO- OPERATE! 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 ctpes your effort. . Farmer, don't hastily underesti- = the value the city man can be to "GET TOC dase THE FIGHT Let us not lament what arent be, wn earnestly face what MUST be. ifteen thousand boys between the ms of fifteen and nineteen must be or- ganized as "Soldiers of the Soil" to work on Ontario farms this season, Farmers can get one or more of these boys by applying to the District Repre- sentatives or to the Public Employment Bureaux at: Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton *or Londo Unmarried men, exempted from mili- tary service, are urged to take up farm work. Married men who have had pre- vions experience on a farm are urged to resume farm work for a season m- ployers of labor are asked to assist men to take up farm work. We urge the farmer and the towns- men to get together for greater produc- tion in the interests of a free people and democracy. Let the Organization of Resources Committee, your District Representatives of the Public Employment Bureaux act as your intermediaries, When we have done our a the cry for food cannot be wholly For the res ur Allies i Vightening their belts. Organization of Resources Committee Parliament Buildings, Torento, Ont. CHAI eee Pie Honor Sir John S. Hendrie, K.C.N C.V.O., Lieutenant- Governor of atin VICE-CHAIR- s EN: 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., Ph.D. ( The only thing that balks German ambition is the Battle Line in France and--the British Navy The only thing that sustains our men on land and sea is Food