The Exeter Times, 1918-3-28, Page 5urst ay, March 28 91S
91a,
One year
rations.
"o -day, Great
n rations.
To -day, Ge
et Ronk
aaia.
To -day, Int
ase and de
"The food wanted b a n>:
kind does not exist.>
The word `shortage' is not
strong enough,
The Whole world is up
against a tasty thing,
familiar to the people of
India, called famine. $R
-Lord Rhondda,
Britain's Food Controller.
o, only the enemy was 0
a
France and Italy,
any controls the x:
iia, Rn sta, Poland
ops of It In
liltlllg over Itte Allies.
Upon the t t crop from Canada and
the United States depends the tate tit the
dentocratic.peoples of the aorld.
that snap s
fed,
es c
That Battle4ll a in Fra ace and
Flanders Must Not Want
'z e itat, a Ger; a
rad 1 an to' ;vada ?
Germany covets our
—our agnea it r t and mineral
forests,
Canada's.
sit
s, every
•
Germany won't be dialled with Euro-
pean territory, with teeming masses, wrang-
ling factions and depleted natural resources.
She wants colonies ----lig, 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, sogreat 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-
land—and the British Navy.
The Only Thing That Sustains Our
Men on Land -and Sca.-Als 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,
ustralia,'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.
Forty million Allied mxcn and Nvor_:en having
been put oLo,n'war work, food' p odjct'ioln has clan -
These i
gerousl` ' decreased ire E <: ope.
'- m
• illion3 consume more .food than
forty
ordinary pr.� y occupations, and
when they were in
there are fewer Men for farming. Hence an in-
creased der nand and decreased supplies The
`harvust`of �'raince` was one-third'lessin
1917
Ql7 thGn 1916, and this year must be smaller
= u
sill, owia� to laces of'fel-tls, which cannot be
applied throe In sho -ta : of shipr3ii
oo�
The world's decrease in live stock, as com-
pared to 1913, is approximately 115,000.000
head.
Herbert : over Says:
Our European .Allies are dependent upon
s 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.
"The submarine destruction of shipping has
made it necessary to abandon the hope of faring-
g food fro!, rt South America, Australasia
ndia.
,.Fcod must, therefore, be
Canada and'the United States--th
safest route,
"Canadian and United State
ntally 350,000,000 bushels s
d needs. By greater production a
tion Canada and
he United States
ust combine to
ese the "ex-
elf grain by
50Q00t
bu
maims
ing 'shortage of
200,000,000
bushels mist be
overcome by
..
rester reduction
onsun ption
ra tlne allied coup-
triz s. And this is
being done by
itain, Fran cc'
and Italy rations
ing their people.
"From t Jnr o
and a half years
of contact with
the Ge an
Army I have
come out of the
horror with the
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 nn-
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 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.
"fYly vision of war is not of an academic
pie
Beare
an'
pplies are
;f the Al-
conserve-
ighty pride, a conscious measuring of their
glory with the best traditions of ancient Sparta,
and of Imperial Ronne, 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 Ou
Allies Is ' Not arityr
1t is war. The Allies have a right to deman
They have a right to resent the offer of only
what is "left over." Those who aree, fighting the
common battle for civilization and for our pro--
tection have a higher claim than had Lazarus,
only the "'crumbs that fall from the rich ma
table,„
The Canadian people gnus
Our Allies have the first claiari ora oca4 food
supplies;
As the shipping sakes the Allies
dependent upon the Nortl American continent
for food; It is vitally necessary' that Caiaada'
si'ould increase; her production of food in order
tai take a largr rt in €? Filling for es,
requirement `Ppahis is espxpecially urgethe Allint as the
ainteance of a large United States a
the Eu,ropea
field will cause a
very heavy drain
on that country'
food resources.
There must be
no peace without
The Hear
Problem
t This
Labour
ouMore Farm Labour
More Food Cannot
be Produced
you really want"`to serve your
Country in a big practical way,
register now for farm labor,
or urge or assist . your male
employees to do so.
problem to be solved by discussion. To me itis
a vision of brave, dying men andsuffering 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 Can-
adian and the United States citizen who sees war
as 1 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."
7
Lloyd Georg, -s Warning
"I fear the disciplined people behind the Ger-
man < Army, the rationed family and the deter-
mination --6f 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.
Ilia y 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
towin.hallowed British Nation
we hope-� The ,
f
ai�..� proud-
,
of our blood bone or OUT bone
7 7
ll paying the price wzncl snaring
4b.'1t1n France ail
i
Italy their limited stock of food. For in this there
ma
t'or hearty
f e .a:A years
many has been
t r u g g
against ' the pow-
ens of lad= and or-
er, She has fail-
ed so far to make
rood her escape
with her booty by
superior strength
and skill. A n d
now she is at
t tnpting by M-
oue, suggges-
tion, device and
propaganda to di-
vert the attention
of her antagon-
ists f r o na the
,struggle itself, and thus to gain her ends by re-
laxing the strength and skill of her antagonists:
What 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 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.
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 -__ ;',,,he is beaten. 1
he
argument t
you
mention is rounded 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
read the speech of that old brigand, Herding. Is
there anysignof repentance in that speech? Is
it a chastened speech? Is it the speech of a
statesman who wants disarmament and a league
of nations?' No! G.ennany is back in her mood
of 1914. " She believes sl e is vanning the war.
She believes she has won now. And if we talk
of peace she HAS won it. Why, it would be bet-
ter a thousand times that every man in England
should be. dead than that Germany should; issue,
this war with the feelingof a. conqueror.
fry $Ebis !+'V ,: s , �
last
You hear people use the ��hrrase, t® the la�.a. man,
i" L
- Y
. A.
the n
��3�:IC you Eh>Eap'�,'.IS Env only �'
and 1�3�shilling,'
s 1%
but t. ^tin ,
b` � •1 �. "c. a��z to r �, inane ;tu s` the most
en and absolute truth. 1 mean. when I s.
it that it would in very truth be a million times
better for the people of these islands to be (eaet
every ` one of them, rather than live on as the
serfs of a triumphant Prussia."
How can any lover of liberty remain insen-
sible to this peril?
Food means Victory and the world a
fe for democrac
Lack of food means disaster aatel'subjtgatio
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 Province,
io
roust maintain her leadership in Ameri.
ca. Great are our opportunities --oar sponse.
y is tremendous.
Upon every man and we
es
boy and gin
a personal obtigation to serve. Every
mild of food produced, in whatever fro n,
contrihution to the Cause of :Freedom.
Ontario farmers also/lid sew 500,000 ,aa
of spring wheat,
Every Ontario farmer 'whose land is
table should put ata extra five acres
eat, even at the expense of another cro
lacing_ ex
on a farri
Line Tre'
To en
tors are €
why
3pted it
quivale
St
r
s anti tanners soils
alitary service, orf
to service in the Sec
ifs the farex to do the
senxtial;
The fiat is Time.
e to do raxust be done at once.- Natu
or ho nonan. The second is Labor. Many farmers
cannot plant the acres they would because they
cannot get the necessary= help. Many are afraid
o increase their acreage because they fear they
would not be able to cultivate and harvest ora un-
susi crop after they had raised it.
The burden is not one to be placed solely
upon the fernier. Neither can it be placed upon
the townsrnan. ;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.
ro
er
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 are tightening their
belts.
Organization anizat€oa: e i Resources' Committee
Parliament Buildings, Toronto Ontario.
CHAIRMAN: nN: iris Honor Sir Johne S.'Iendrie, IC.C.N.Ga
C.V.o., I..iet tesa.,s.E=G overnor of Ontario. VICE -CHAIR=
MEN; I -Io' 'i _ ' ' Sir William H. Hearst, KCMG I'ritnc
Ntanis te - cfe "E' ..rio; .\ vv_v rn ProndCo , . I .C. Leader
o€ the Position. SECRET/TARNAlbert 1i ,
i5,Ab&tott, Fust?
Pia).
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