The Lucknow Sentinel, 1917-05-03, Page 5•
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waPakoakets, am a, farther
by ocupation, ould the Grippe left 140
'wait had *tough and in a nervous, wok
run-dokrn condition, and 1 could sot
seem to get anything to do me any goad
until I took vinol, which built me up,
and, tny eough and nervonenem are all
gout, and 1 can truly say Irina is all
that is claimed for it."—Jmos Maar
Vinci is a eonstitutional remedy for
all weak,- nervouseand run-down condi-
tions of tam, women and, children, and
$or chronic couglot, cold* and bronchitis.
DR. A. M. *PBX= 1•11/CMPIOW
BRUCE COUNTY NEWS
' :Hanover 'ratepayer* earned the
hydro by law by a vote of 285 to 10 to
expend $40,960 in buying out the
Oreutzner plant aild. installing brim
electric. ,0 •
Mra. A„..W. McNally, wife of Major'
McNally, of the 160thr Battalion who
went to England with her busltud,,'
'has, enhsted os a nurse with the 148
London V. A. Votaolunent• ' Mrs, Mo.
Nally was formerly Miss Wesley, of
Walkerton.
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After a. reaidenee of -25 years in
Tepswater M r, and Mrs, W. W. John-
, sten have r6moved to' Elora. Mr.
Johnston. is a O.P.B. 'engineer and for ..,,
many years has been in charge of
• passenger run to Toronto. On leaving
Teeswater Mr. and Mra. Johnston
twelve(' a number of gifts from friends,
Ooastable Ferguson, of Walkerton,
. last week received instructions from
the police of _Stratford to arrest a
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you than by the name of R. W.
Metcalf on his release from the county
jail on May 2nd. Metcalf has been
serving a term In jail on a conviction
•of receiving money on false pretences
• at Kincardine, and he is now wanted
•• at Stratford on a like charge.•
• Louis Brown, a pioneer resident of
°Snick Township, 80 years of age '
'committed suicide on April 16, by.
• . • slashing his-thioat with a, razor. Be
liad-been living the, past few years
with his daughter, .,M111, --P. Smith, of
Hamilton. It is said the old man had
• been indiscrete in his talk about the
. war and had:lisett ordered to report to
- the authorities regularly. • This seems
to have, preyed upon Iiia mind. `.The
'remains were taken to Mildmay for
interment. • .
Mmon Pirrone; of. Marton, who
has been at the front, returned hthne
last week, ne bad been in the trenches
, 2 • • from August until M arch and *watt
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through the Somme Offensive and up
* „ • fo• Vimy Ridge, where the Canadians
' • . recently distinguished themselves, _He
is a good authority on the war ' situa-
tion, having'seen many phasesof'
' ' • thinks that if.theirsupplies— li'oici
• - . out and internal revolution': linea-7not
• ,•take place, the .Germans may held -out
' !!!‘•'' for some time:. He is loud in: his
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• •) praise of the Canadians. • '
..WAR COINOIDENTS.-Jack NICIae0d#
of Calgary, who recently returned to
England after recovering from wounds,
• . contracted ,mulnps Shortly after arriv-
tog there and was sent .to Clivodon
hospital, wherehe occupied tbe, cot
endowed by thejadies of his old home
'town of Paisley. This is almost as
- notable a coincidence as that in which
Mies Pollock a former Chesley girl
who went to England lately as a Red
• Cross nurse, had a brother aalter .first
patient. The brother bad enlisted in
.• tshe West, and they had not seen each
other for several years.—Paisley • Ad-
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• • SCHOOL. REPORTS • "
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• Percentages of those who are 'taking
the exemption for*farm euiployment:
• V—iVlarjorie Johnston, 70%.
Si. IV,Ilarold Ferguson, 64 • ;
-1. The rest are in order of merit:
• Sr. IVz7-Talie.Shertrood, Ruby Am
ston, VipleeDrendan.
Sr, III—Albert Alton..**
larriek.Ambrosit'Hogan,„
S Pt. Ir-ZPrances Hogan, Mjtdrcd
.91.14.0641i1).
- • • Jr, Pt. H-LMargaret Farrisb1'Mark
Courtney, Leci.Courtney, Jean Parrish.
- • ; ' :°' Jr, Pt. I.-.•-•Reto. Courtney, Earl Sher.,
• :wood,. Joseph Rogan, Robert Scott.
A—Clara Ritchie, Gladys Johnston,
Marie Hogan, jearrRitchni. '•
• - - Ncc-on-rolli-24;aver.---attendancec--1
, . lsIncA WooDs6 Teacher. ,
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HURON BOUNTY NEWS
°Sunderland, formerly
commander o1 the 71st Battalion, has
again reported for duty ' in England.
•L He has. been twice invalided home,
Wounded, nod recently spent a -.period
of convalescence at his home in Nor..
wich.
• Dudley B. /101inc.kni nen of Mr. and
Mrs: Dudley golines,.of Wit-1.0am, is
now a flight lieutenant in France. He
enlisted 'With the 1614 Battalion, but
• having. a preference for aviation,
he
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was tranSferred to the Royal Flying
Corps. In writing home he states
that -he has had a number of flights
and.likes the trot k very' much. •
kaoft neon .tleeLA241).—Pte. David
• Currie, of East Wawanoth, who went
overseen with the 16•1st. Battalion, re.
• turned home front England on Wed.
' •• nesday bvening,having been honotably
• dischargedV bile in Atig,land ' Pte.
-Currie did duty as guardsman in tug.
land and Scotland. On Ida, arrival In
Wingliata front London, Pte. Currie
was given a hearty weleoine bVrile
townspeople, The Oititetn? Band head.
od A proration from the O. t, R. etation
to the front of the Town EMI,. whoa
• ed a short address of woleomo towilleh n'ausum".""mimmembra"*""Pw7".'""
kte. (Isola Man a rely.
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mine and
se -
in the nation's honor, heed!
Acquit yourselves like then.
As worker* on Out lands de your
duty with. all youtrength "
GEogeo.
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World Hunker
on our res o
The Crisis
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. France, England and Italy in peace times did not depend upon America
but oh Russia, Roumania and Bulgaria for .'most of their bread stuffs.With
these sources closed the crisis of, the hour demands that we see that our soldiers
and the Motherland are fed. . '
Everyone in Great Britain bas been put onliniited rations. :meat is,pro-•
hibited one day a week and the making of cakes and pastry has been
stopped, Further restrictions are. anticipated. .
'Bread has gone to 24c. per four.pound loaf in England, for the first time
'since the Crimean war,
Lord Devonport, British Feed Compiroller, proposes taking authority to
search the houses of Great Britain to prevent food hoardingFortt million men are either killed, wounded or on active service.
Twenty million men and womentitre supporting them by service in other
war activities. •
"In the last analysis, the land is bearing this burden.
One million tons of food -carrying- ships have been torpedoed since Feb-
ruary list, 1917: • t
Germany's hope for victory is in the etaeyation of Britain .through the
• subrnarinc. .
Canada's sons will have died in vain if hunger compels the Motherland's
-surrender.- - '
The land .is waiting,the plough is ready will We make the plow
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mighfier than the swora?
Will we help the acres te save the flag'
World.-tfungter‘ Stares. es: i.fl the Face
David Lubin, ; representative of the United States to the International
Institute of •Agriciilare—maintained by forty dovertimenteports
to Washington that the food grains of the world on March i st, *91:7, showed
• a shortage of 150,000,000 bushels.below,the"ameunt necessary to feed the world.
until August 190 7 • He declares it i .beyond question that unless greater •
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acreage . is put; to crop- in 191 Z `,.'• there Will - be WORLD -HUNGER before the
41,9To• crop is' harvested .
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.The failure of the grain crop in the Argentine .Republic, whici is ordi-
narily a.great grain -exporting natien, resulted in an embargo being placed, in .
March, 1917, upoti theexpOrt Of grains from that country to avert local famine.
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The United" States Department of Agriculture,in its official report, ' an
noufices the -condition of the, fall wheat crop (which is two-thirds of their total
wheat crop) on April ist, i917, to be the poorest ever .reitorded and predicts a
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yield of 244,000,000 bushels below the crop of 19.15: The 1916 crop was poor.
Even whh favorable weather, the wheat crop of the,,United States islikely to
be the ',smallest' in thirty-five years, not more than 64% of ithe-noritil crap.- • -- •
Under date of April loth, •Ogden Armour, executive head of Artuour
Company; one of the world's iargest dealers in food products, stated that unless
the United States wishes to Walk deliberately into a Catastrophe, the best brains
of the country, under Government superyiston,- must immediately devise means
of increasing and conserving food. supplies. Armour urged the cultivation of
every available'. acre. The food' shortage, he said, is world- wide. European
production is, cut in half, the Argentine Republic had suffered droughts, Can-
ada and the United States must wake up •
People are starving to -day in Belgium, in Serbia, ;n Poland, in Armenia,
in many quarters 91 the,globe. • „ . . •
-Famine conditions are kieconiing more widespread every -flay, '
immediately appointed a lobed Comptroller for the lJeited States,. He selected
„Herliert;.c..11cRifier,-tii.whoin the-iverlittli-indebted:as-ChairinineoTihe-rfiter'L'
liationat-belgium Relief Commission for his personal direction of the distribution
. of food among the starving,telgians. . • •
Mr, 'Hoover is already urging sacrifice and food- restrictions,- for,as he
• states, "The warmilLprobabyiastanother. year and we -shall -have all we an
"do to supply the 'necessary 'food W. carry our Allies through With their full
44'fightirirStaillina.4%' . "
• The Problem for Ontario -•-• o
1. The land under cultivationin Oetario, in t 9 1,6 was 3,65.,000 acres 1s
• than in 10-5; • - .
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„ ?. C9#der boy! stich..P,S$ -94447 prOuld..•:,m than -she
raised in 1954 '1 : -•- •• • -•.
1916 DECREASE
• •• . •• Year Acres - Bush& • Acres ' • Bushels
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Yell Wheat .6666 .. . ' . .. .: 1914 ' 704;867 • 14,942,060 • iikx ile
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• ...• s t ..sits b,e ; be."... b , • 1915 811,185 '' 24,737,011 IUU0010 9,794,961
' Mt
Barleyand Oats ,,,, .. ..., ..-. 1916 529,886 12,388.969 ' ' • •
u 44 • , . . • • .. 4, • . . t ' 1915 552318 19,693;129 24432 7504,160
eat! and Detail . . .. .......... 1916 05,542 1,2439/9
. 1*. . - " ! •4;; • 4 • • • ; 4 • i• • • 1915 126,943 2,043.049- ••• ''•43191ul 799,070
corn ..; ... , . ....... 4,,h. :li 0 6'4, Y 1916 258332 1%717,0/2 •
•, 4# # #. 0 # # # # . #. •:;# # # # # # # # . # 195 309,173 ' 21,60,496 $1,441 ' 9,043,424
Potatoes and oprote .. , . .. • .' 1916 189,623 7,408,429 . . .
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-i91&s- A -Wu-, --13,267,02V-- ,411 _.:.1,__, 59_4
MattgelWuriela. 1916 42,793 9,756,015 , le Edinoiriargn
and Turnis... .. i, . .. .., 1015 50,799 25,350324 ' • 00MU • 1010UUU MO
•... Other crops show as critical a tkeiine. - • . , • '
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3. •Reports from Ontario on the condition offall wheat for 1917 are des
cidedly discouraging •
„ As there is an average of not more than one man on each hundred,.
acres of farm land in Ontario,, the prospects indicate even a•stilkstnaller acreage
under cultivation -1n 1917 unless extra labor is supplied.
Is. it. Any- Wonder ' that FoOd
Prodpction the Greatest Problem
the World Faces To*clay ?
owing to destruction by submarines, ocean ships are scarce.
• It is much easier to protect shipping 'between Canada and England than
on the longer Voyages from India or Australia. •. •
• One vessel can make twice as -many trips from Canada to Britain as from
India, and four times as many as froin Australia.
Therefore, every ton of food stuffs growa in Canada is worth to the
• Motherland two tons grown in. India or- four tons grown in Australia. :
Is It Any Wonder That the Cali
to Canada is So Urgent?
If ttiwcoufitry does not raise a big crop this year, not only will the
people of Canada suffer but. the, Motherland and her Allies will suffer and their
military power .will be weakened -if notparalyzed.• Therefore, the right solution of
tile present War problem comes back to the farm, as to a foundatioe upon which
our whole national and international structure must be built and maintained..
The farmers know -that they are the list reserve, and that the soil on •
, which crops are grown is the strategic ground on 'which wars are decided. To
their care is entrusted the base of supplies. .
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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 once. ' Nature waits for no
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man. The second is Labor. Many farmers cannot plant the acres they would
because they cannot 'get the necessary help. Many are afraid WI increase their
acreage because they fear they mould. not be able to cultivate and harvest an
unusual crop. after they have raised it. If they /are- to do the work that is es-
sential lor.them .ta-..do, the *last man -in. each -city, town -and :village must be
,moblizeci. at once.
Every man not on Active oervice ancnelp. in every city, town. and
village are men. who, by their training on the farm, or by their present occu-
pation, can readily adapt themselves to farm woik. These .cati render no
greater service to_the Empire at the present time than by answering the call
. of the- farm. Capable men and boys .willing to learn should not allow their
lack of farm experience. to stand in the Way. .
Can the employer render a more signal service in this crisis than bi
encouraging these men to help the farmer to cultivate every available.acre,.
and by making it easy for them to g®? -- • -
Ontario's ' farm lands are waiting --the implements are ready—the
eauiptrient is.complete--the.farmer is willing—all he needs is labor.
. So short is the -world's food supply that without increased production
many in Canada must go hungry, and even with enormously increased Pro-
duction we cannot expect cheap food. The world is waiting for our harvest.
• peace should be declared* Within. •a; year, the food conditions wilt be
, better, for the accemulated hunger of the Central Empires must be met.
.This' will absorb a large Part of the world's supply. . •
We do not know when this war shalt cease. It it endless --its length-
- --ening- out- has paralyzed -the -thought gild eonception'Of all men -who thouglif”
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about it and its„possible_time_of_ccaiclusio14—Th.reolionths--six-Months,Ag
h.sntl-yet•,tvvct--•Year0-•and-?--s'Zjegbt''AVitha-
have passed their. long,. dreary and sanguinary length 'and there is no man - • ,
who can tell how long this gigantic struggle may ye' t last. • .
Lloyd George, in a letter addressed to farmers throughout the Empire, said
The lin which. the ritish Empire hold against t
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"Germans is held by those who WORK ON THE LAND
• "as Well as by those who fight on land and sea. If it
"breaks at any point it breaks everywhere:- In the 'face
"of the enemy the seasmen of our Royal naval and mer,!
"Cantile Marine and the soldiers gathered from every
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—"Wit or our Empire hold our line-fintly.:71risurrworkersif
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"on land must hold your part of our line as strongly.
"Every full day's labor you do helps to shorten the
"ustrugglea.nd bring us nearer victory. Every idle day,
"all loitering, lengthens the struggle And makes defeat
"more possible. Therefore, in the nation's honour, heed!
"Acquit yourselves like men, and as workers on land do
• "your duty with all your strength!"
• So, for the honor of Canada's sOldiers in France—and for the glory of
our New-born Nationhood—let it be said of Ontario's .citiens that, in the hour
of our greatestneed, their response was worthy of their sons.
• , We °ye a.great debt to those who are fighting for us..
Organization of Resources Committee
Parliament Buildings, Toronto.
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