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The harvest of France was one-third less in l9l7 than I916, and this year must be smaller still, owing to lack of fertilizers, which cannot be supplied through shortage of shipping. 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. Forty million Allied men and women having been put on war work, food production has dan- gerously decreased in Europe. 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 food to the Motherland because of the lack of ships. What are we, each one to insure that Food supply? The only thing that balks Cermhn ambition is that battle line from the North Sea to Switzer. land-and the British Navy. And what's more, the Germans themselves for the sacrifice, so greal jection to the military ideal. The Kaiser would mans to-morrow if he he could set foot on queror. Germany won’t be satisfied with Euro- pean territory, with teeming masses, wrang- ling lactions and depleted natural resources. She wants eohrrties--big, thinly-populated countries in temperate zones tor her sons and daughters to go to propagate their kind. The Only Thing That Sustain: od Men on Land and Saab-ls Food Germany covets our natural resources ----6ttr agricultural and mineral wealth. our torests. our fisheries, everything that is Do you realize what a German Peace :vaaid mean to Canada ? It that crop is not sttfikiettt the Allies may have to accept a German peace. It that crop is sttffielertt the mm can be fed. Upon the 1818 crop from (mama and the United States depends the tate at the democratic peoples of the world. To-day, the shadows of hunger. famine, disease and death hang over the Miss. "'. ONTARIO Te-day, Great Britain, France and Italy, are on rations. Today, Germany controls We wheat lands of Romania. Russia. Poland and Ukrania. One year ago, only the enemy was on rations. O 0 0 O The only thing that balks German ambition Is the Navy. The only thing that sustains our 1 K That Battle-Line in France i Flanders Must Not Want Lack of Food _-- Threatm rould sacrifice millions of Ger, if he thought that by so doing t on Canada's shores as Con.. of us, prepared to do "The food wanted by man- T [and does not exist. pared The word 'shor/age' it not head. strong enough. . The whole maria! is " against a 11-1st thing, familiar to the people of q-I-.-. India, called 'famine.'" "i 2.'i'2,l',Tte; Controller. us fo) 3crmam would offer ' so greaide: their sub.. and Only with a disciplined people we hope to Win. The rationed Br blood of our blood, bone of our ban ly paying the price and sharing witl Italy their limited stock of food. For ,,_ -- r-vr-' -vuunu nu: - man Army, the rationed family and the deter- mination of wife and sister and daughter and mother to stand and 'tttre-eo that their fight- ing men may be fed--l fear it more than the lm. 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. "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 behalf the greater exertion of the Allies' farmers comes as a direct necessity and a direct plea. The Carr. adian and the United States citizen who sees war as I 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.. ing human suffering and ‘guaranteeing the lib- erty of the world." tern that directly endangers and jeopardizes the future of our race-that threatens our very in- dependence. lt 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 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. I';My vision of war is not of an academic A r m y I h a v e come out of the horror with the complete convic- tion that autocraq tem that directly e future of our race "From t w o and a half years of contact with t h e G e rm a n ing shortage of 2 0 0 , 0 0 O , 0 0 0 bushels must be o v e r c o m e by greater reduction i n consumption in the allied coun- tries. And this is being done by Britain, F r a n ce and Italy ration- ing their people. bushels. "Canadian and United States supplies are normally 350,000,000 bushels short of the Al.. lied needs. By greater production and causewa- tion Canada and the United States . must combine to - increase the ex- port of grain by Th ff 150,000,000 e ea] "I fear the disciplined people behind the Ger. " A _---- a .. . - ‘- "Food must, therefore, be shipped from Canada and the United States-the" nearest and safest route. "The submarine destruction of shipping has made it necessary to abandon the hope of bring- ing food from South America, Australasia and India. "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. "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 b10051. and not least of all, OUR FOOD supply, must be of a common stock. The world's dec/ease in live stock, as com- pare_d to I913, is approximately Il5,000,000 Lloyd George', autocracy is a political faith and a sys- At_, .l I . _ - Herbert Hoover Says: remam- The rationed British Nation, bone of our bone, are proud- and sharing with France and :ock of food. For in this there THE DURHAM REWE18 If you really want to serve your Country in a big practical way, register now for farm labour, or urge or assist your male employees to do so. Without More Farm Labour More Food Cannot -- be Produced The Heart of This Problem is Labour behind can -"H --- '_"""""' uncut!!! . " ‘VV’ JV“. L there any sign of repentance in that speech? ls Ernployme: it s chastened speech? Is it the speech of a anes. statesman who wants dismat and a league When , of nations? Not. Germany is back in her mood food canno of 1914. She believes she is winning the war. For the She believes she has won now. And if we talk belts. of peace she HAS won it. Why, it would be bet. . ter a thousand times that every man' in England orgama should be dead than that Germany should issue Puliam from this war with the feeling of a conqueror. CHARM" You hear people use the phrase, 'to the last man, figt kt,t.e, and the last shilling; and you think it is only s Minister of 9r, bit of rhetoric, but to my mind it's the mt Itttokoai G "You will Ttrd". tble a dictate terms to emany CL' a. e is ten. e argument you mention is founded on the dangerous fallacy that because Germany is sick of this war she is sick of war in general. She isn't. I doubt if her Government is even sick of this war. You've rid the speech f. that old brigend, Herding. ls I Ar. - Ma.... - -_--- . " . Lord Leverhulme. long known in Canada as Sir William Lever, who knows well the German mind, in a rtsent interview stated: - - I" ‘l"‘B"‘""" V. r While with her hands she murders an spoils, with her voice she invites to parleys Germany's most dangerous weapon is not her Zeppelin-that is obsolete. Not her subma- rine--that can be overcome. Not her machine- like army-that has been repeatedly hurled back by the living armies of freemen. Her most dangerous weapon is her propaganda of peace. ,Whil.t,w.ith her hapds she murders and de- - - -"e ______ -- ---- "'"""""ee""""'. What she can gain from these tactics is plain to all the world in the sorrowful experience of Russia. struggle itself, and thus to gain her ends by re- laxing the strength and skill of her antagonists. IV" . I - - - When Libert is in Peril There is Threat_9f {gating Disaster in As the shipping situation makes the Allies dependent upon the North American continent for food, it is vitally necesSary that Canada 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 Canadian people must recognize that Our Allies have the first claim on our food supplies. 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 table." 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 hill tops of history. To Send More Food to I __ - Allies hrNot Charity a battle line in France a1 men on land . and sea is the Very Wot?! 513;}? ”a“! , , tl., hwri; 5». "4 For n e a r l y four years Ger- many has been 3 t r u g g I i n g _ against the pow- ers of law and or- der. She has fail- ed so far to make good her escape with her booty by superior strength and skill. A n d now 3 h e is at- tempting by in- trigue, sugges- tion, device and propaganda to di- vert the attention of her antagon- ists f r o m the There must be no peace without victory. the E u r o p e an field will cause a very heavy drain on that country's food resources. ,.-__... ... "urn. K.C.M.G.. Prime nun-uncl- of Ontario: William Proudtoot. Em., K.C.. Leader lite Opposition. SECRETARY t Albert H. Abbott, Esq. V - - --.._ vllwloo ynAlRMAN: His Honor Sir John S. Hendrie. K.C.M.(i.. C.V.0., kitt!tmyyitiiiio"vT/i"J. of Ontario. VICE-CHAIR- MEN: Honorable Sir William H. Hearst. K.C.M.(l.. Prime Minister of Ontario; William Pro"agiLli a“ .. - - A. ' "__, .-. When we have done our best. the cry for food cannot be wholly met. be For the rettt--our Allies are tightening their Its. 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 towmmen 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 Representative; or the Public Employment Bureaux act as your intermedi.. anes. rarmers can get one or more of these boys by applying to their District Representatives or to the Public Employment Bureau: at Toronto, Ottttra, Hamilton or London. Fifteen 1toiiii2iiiC;i gecéween the ages of fifteen and nineteen must be organized as "Sol- diers of the Soil" to work on Ontario farms this ”Janna -"'"""----.-' Let u: not lament what MIGHT be, but earn'Estly fac_e what MUST be. "--__._ --. u... . nvvulw 01 UHIEI’IO. AWAY WITH C.RTClslu-ctidiiiii' 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. F armer, don't hastily under-estimate the value the city man can be to you. V__-J --_‘ n-auu It. The burden is not one to be placed solely upon the farmer. Neither can it be placed upon the townsman. lt is a personal obligation upon every man, woman, boy and girl, in every farm, town and city home in the Province of Ontario. A‘YIAV ‘VII'T‘I I an -------- - - -___- .._. ..uu,. " "c"ever we are to do must be done at once. Nature waits for no man. The second is Labor. Many farmers cannot plant the acres 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 rdsed it. 'ganization of Resources Committee tttier.ttpiiiaiiii, Toronto th,u,a, '--""-r---' Ar all costs production must be maintained. 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 tors are eeential. The first is Til mm Ever Ontario farmer whose land is at all suitable should put an extra five acres into wheat, even at the expense of another crop. ,2an the MESH Lack of fobd Gans disaster and subjugation to Germany. How can any lover of liberty remain inser,, sible to this peril? Food means Victory and the world made safe. for. deeirlscsr-- talcum and absolute truth. I mean when I say it thnt it would in very truth be a million tin-s 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." Get T Lead This Mighty crusilii for Greater Food Production The fhitizenu of Ontario Mus u 'osgsthtryn the Fight For as t'n' e work two fac- ime. Whatever e. Nature waits MARCH 28, lop, Inspector of Ta El l0 .1363 28, 191 s-ree-r--"""'"-"""--" A Canadian Capt Get “in .r. 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