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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1917-5-3, Page 54 $UMNES$ ARM • JNO. SUTHERLAND & SONS D,t,y�oI,e,�J��W DLpIMITED Gr9AbsI ®,wawa Business Cards JAS. ANDERSON. VETERINARY SURGEON. Successor to M, H. Moore. Office at Ander- son Bros. Livery stable, Brussels, Telephone No. 20. T. T. M' RAE M. B.. M. C. P.. di S. O.' M. 0. H., Village of Bruesele. Physician, Surgeon, Accoucheur Office at rosidenoo, opposite Melville Church, William street. DR. F. T. BRYANS Baohelor of Medicine, University of Toronto ; Licentiate of College of Physicians and Sur. goons, Ontario ; ox -Senior House Surgeon of Western Hospital, Toronto. Offices of late Dr, A. Reliever, Smith Block, Brussels. Rural phone 46, MAUDE O. BRYANS OPHTHALMOLOGIST Personal graduate Department of Ophthal- mology hthal- mology, MoCormiolr Medical College, Ciiiongo, Ill., is prepared to test eyes and tit glasses at her office over Miss millinery store. Office days—Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of every week. Office hours -10 to 12 a. m. ; 1 to 0 p. m. Evenings by appoint- ment. Phone 1210. OR. WARELAW Honor graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College. Day and night calls. Office opposite Flour Mill, ilt11e1. JAMES TAYLOR Licensed Auctioneer for Huron Co, Satisfaction aeoured ; Charges moderate. Write or Telephone if not convenient to call. Both Brussels and North Huron Phones. BELGRAVE P. 0. P. R. MULHERON Teacher of PIANO, ORGAN, VOCAL Organist and Choir Master, Melville Church, Brussels. Pupils prepared for Toronto Col- lege of Music Examinations. Phone 60x PROUOFOOT, KILLORAR & COOKE Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Public, &c. Office on tho Square, 2nd door from Hamilton Street, GODERICH, ONT. Private funds to loan at lowest rates. W. PROUDFOOT, K. 0. T. L, KILLORAN H. .1. D. Cooae CENTRAL STRATF.ORD. ONT. W; Ontario's Best Business College Students may enter our classes at any Eine, Conunence your course now and be qualified for a position by Midsum- mor. During July and August of lost yonr we received calla for over 200 office assistants we could not 00 ply. Our graduates are in demand. Write at once for our free catalogue. },� B. A. MCLACHLAN, Principal. 9, 2gPlrydYr4 rpmrvArYp �v t 6 Trowbridge Mrs, Thos. Daly has moved and is now living in 13. McCormick's place, South of the village. Jas, McCrea will soon have his mill yard cleared of logs again. Be has been quite busy for the past few weeks. Miss 1;. McOmmick, who has been spending a few weeks with her broth- er in Detroit, paid a flying visit to her home last week. An effort is being made by the teacher and 00ho1ats of the public school to have the grounds beautified and several evergreens have been planted. Gerrie W. D. Williams has arrived Home from Mobile, Alabtuna, Mrs. M. Walker, Pott Arthur, was a guest at the home of G, W. and Mrs. Walker. Miss Cora Coles was the hostess of a very pleasant birthday party at her hotne. N. S. McLaughlin, who had his left arm severely injured while working in a munition factory in Toronto, and who was in the hospital for several weeks, arrived home here. A. A. Holt had the misfortlnle to have 3 fingers of his right blond badly damaged while assisting to cut wood with a circular saw at the home of W. J. Douglas, Orange Hill, Wingham Dr, R. L, Stewart has purchased a Ford car. Mrs. Robb. Johnson is visiting with Chicago friends, Miss L. Barber went to Ottawa to attend session Of Parliament, J. J. Mitchell, License Inspector is able to be around again after bring confined to his home for some weeks. W. F, VatStone has solei his farts, commonly-1ctiown as the Graham property on the 1st line of Morris, to lipling & Mills, Mrs. Copeland -heath bite purchased the Elder property on Shooter street, She has sold her fat min Lower Wing - ham to John Armour. Mee. George Olver, who underwent an operation in the hospital is doing nicely, Many friends will wish for to speedy and complete recovery. Robt. Johnston ie back to tower after spending the 'eVinler in Toronto and has re -opened the Marble Works with. Alex, 13ird, Paisley„ in his employ. Miss Olive Crnickshnnlis, 13, A., of Manitoba Agricultural College, Win, nlpeg, is spending a 00111)1(1 of weeks at the home of her parents, Geo. and Mrs, Cruieltehailks, Turnberry, Rev, B. G, Dymond, wlro has been rector of St, Paul's church, will preach his farewell sermon Sunday, May (itll and will then take up his work as Rector of the Anglican church at. Durham, h..er i..it,.5.. Y ..... ..... �J 11IIh� I IIIIIIIIII' • ONTARIO in the nation's honour, heed! Acquit yourselves like men. As workers on the land, do your duty with all your strength!" —Lloyd George. THE CRISIS France, England and Italy in peace times did no depend upon America but on Russia, Roumania and Bulgaria for most of their breadstuffs. 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 has been put on limited rations: meat is prohibited one day a week and •the making of cakes and pastry has been stopped. Further restnctlons are anticipated. Bread has gone to 28c per four -pound loaf in Eng- land, for the first time since the Crimean War. Lord Devonport, British Food Comptroller, .pro poses taking authority to search the houses of Great Britain to prevent food hoarding. Forty million men, less the casualties, are now on active service. Twenty million men and women are supporting them by service in other war activities. In the last analysis, the land is bearing this burden. One million tons of food-carryingships have been torpedoed since February. 1st, 1917. Germany's hope for victory is• in the starvation of Britain through the submarine. 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 plough mightier than the sword? Will we help the acres to save the flag? World -Hunger Stares Us in the Face David Lubin, representative of the United'States to the International institute of Agriculture—maintained by forty Governments—reports officially to Washington that the food grains of the world on March 31st, 1917, showed a shortage of 150,000,000 bushels below the amount necessary to feed the world until August,. 1917. He declares it is beyond question that unless a greater acreage is put to crop in 1917 there will be WORLD -HUNGER before the 1918 crop is harvested. The failure of the grain crop in the Argentine Republic, which is ordinarily a great grain -exporting nation, resulted in an embargo being placed, in March, 1917, upon the export of grains from that country to avert local famine. The United States Department of Agriculture, in its official report, announces the condition of the fall wheat crop (which is two-thirds of their total wheat crop) on April 1st, 1917, to be the poorest ever recorded and predicts a yield of 244,0000000 bushels below the crop of'1915. The 1916 crop was poor. Even with favorable weather, the wheat crop of the. United States is likely to be the smallest in thirty-five years, not more than 64% of the normal crop. Under date of April loth, Ogden Armour, executive head of Armour & Company, one of the world's largest 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 supervision, 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 has suffered droughts. Canada and the United States must wake ups ofrr.Ittt.d by a a M,cw,.• Hunger Tightening His Grip —New York Evening Mall People are starving to -day in Belgium, in Serbia, in Poland, in Armenia, in many quarters of the globe. Famine conditions are becoming more wide -spread every day. On these alarming food conditions becoming known, President Wilson immediately appointed a Food Comptroller for the United States. He Selected Herbert C. Hoover, to whom the world is indebted as Chairman of the International Belgium Relief Commission for his personal direction of the distribution of food among the starving Belgians. Mr. Hoover is already urging sacrifice and food restric- tions, for, as he states, "The; war will probably last another year and we shall have all we can do to supply the necessary food tc carry our Allies through with their full fighting stamina." The Problem for Ontario The land under cultivation in Ontario in 1916 was 365,000 acres less than in 1915. Consider how much LESS Ontario produced in 1916 than she raised in 1915: Rear Acres Bushels Pall Wheat 1916 704,867 14,912,050 1915 811,185 24,737,011 Barley and Oats . 1916 529,886 12,388,969 1915 552,318 19,893429 Peas and Beans . . . . 1916 95,542 1,243,979 " " . . . . 1.15 126,943 2,043,049 Corn 1916 258,332 12,717,072 1915 809,773 21,760,496 Potatoes and Carrots . 1916 139,523 7,408,429 1915 173,934 13,267,023 Mansel-Wurzels 1916 42,793 9,756,015 and Turnips . .. , 1915 50,799 25,356,323 Other crops show as critical decline. Reports from Ontario on the condition of fall wheat for 1917 are decidedly 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 still smaller acreage under cultivation In 1917 unless extra labor is supplied. 1916 DECREASE Acres Bushels 105,315 9,794,961 24,432 7,504,160 799,070 9,043,424 31,401 51,441 '34,411 5,858,594 8,006 15,600,308 —Plato Men London (Eng.) Bystander. A 15 -year Old Girl at Work Miss Alexandra Smith, one of the thousands of British women workers on the land. She recently won an All -Comers' Cham- pion prize for plowing. Food Production is the Greatest Problem the World Faces To -day 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 tirtl'S as many as from Australia. Therefore, every ton of food stuffs grown in Canada Is worth to the Motherland two toes grown in India or four tons grown in Australia. Why the Call to Canada is So Urgent If this country 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 not paralyzed. Therefore, the right solution of the present,war problem comes back to the farm, as to a foundation upon which our whole national and international structure must be built and maintained. Mnst P c CV..10.hwi b, pu I,0 e,0o el New, So vim Now 000...— The 00.w The Second - Line Trenches --3rr(ay In The Now York Amerinon. The farmers know that they are the last reserve, and that the soil on which crops are grown is the strategic ground on which wars are decided. '1'o their care is entrusted the base of supplies. To enable the farm to do the worn two factors are essen- tial. The first is Time. Whatever we are to do must be done at once. Nature waits for no man. The second is Labor. Many fanners cannot plant the acres they would because they cannot get the necessary help.. Mary are afraid to increase their acreage because they fear they would not be able to culti-. vete and harvest an unusual crop after they have raised it. If they are to do the work that is essential for there to do, the last man in each city, town and village must be mobilized at once. Every man not on Active Service can help. In every city, town and village are men who, by their training on the farm, or by their present occupation, can readily adapt themselves to farm work. These can render no greater service to the Em- pire at the present time than by answering the call of the farm. Capable Wien 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 by encouraging these men to help the farmer to cultivate every available acre, and by making it easy for them to go? Ontario's farm lands are waiting—the implements are ready—the equipment 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 production we cannot expect cheap food. The world is waiting for our harvest. If peace should be declared within a year, the food con- ditions will be no better, for the accumulated 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 shall cease. It is endless—, its lengthening out has paralyzed the thought and conception, of all men who thought about it and its possible time of con-: elusion. Three months—.six months, we said; nine months, a, year, we said; and yet two years and eight months have passed) their long dreary and sanguinary length and there is no man who can tell how long this gigantic struggle niay yet last Lloyd George, in a letter addresd to farmers throitghoutl the Empire, said: " The line which the British Empire holds "against the Geriratons is held by those who WORK, ""O1'! THE LAND as well as by those who fight] "ore land and sea. If it ',maks at any point it "break everywhere. In the face of the enemy the "seamen of ofrr Royal rteVa,i grid mercantile marine "and rite: soldiers gatlrzred ti•;,ara every part of our r'Ena,.-ire hold our line !rstly. You workers on land "must hold your, part of ocn' eine as strongly. Every "full stay's labor you do he.;:sa to shorten the strug- "gle and brings us nearer victory. Every idle day, all loitering, lengthens the struggle and makes de- feat more passible. Therefore, in the nation's "honour, heed! Acquit yourselves like men, and as "worbers 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 citizens that, in the hour of our greatest need, their response was worthy of their sons. We owe a great debt to those who are fighting for us. Organization of Resources Committee, Parliament Buildings, 'formic). Chairman: Ills Honour, Sir John S. Hendrtr, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario; Viee-Clavirneea, Honourable Sir 1V11- 12. Hearst, IK,C.M,G., 1' type Minister of Ontario; N. W. Rowell, Esq., PILE.Leader of the Opposition; Secretary: Albert B. Abbott