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Lack of Food —Threatens the Battle Line
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be led.
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Mair have to accept a German peace. .
"The food vented by man-
kind does not exist.
The word 'shortage' is not
strong enough.
The whole world is up
against a nasty thing,
familiar to the people of
India, called 'famine.'
--LorJ Rhondda.
BritaBa's food kontroller.
a a,go, only the enemy WO on
bat Battle -Noe in France a ► d
Flanders Must Not rant
Ifo you realize what a German Peace
would ine. t to Canada?
Germany covets our ,atural resources
—our agricultural and a,lHerat wealth, our
forests, our fisheries, everything that is
;Canada's.
Germany won't he satisfied with Euro-
pean territory, with teeming masses, wrang-
litlg factions and depleted natural resources.
She wants colonies --big, thinly -populated
co : !tries 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, so great is their sub-
jection to the military Leal.
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
Mena on Laced and Sea- -ls 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, 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 men and women having
been put on war work, food production has dan-
gerously decreased in Europe.
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.
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
supplied through shortage of shipping,
The world's decrease in live stock, as com-
pared to 1913, is approximately 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 money, our ships, our life
blood, and not least of all, OUR FOOD supply,
must be of a common stock.
"In pre-war times. Brit in, France, Italy and
Belgium yearly imported E more than 750,000,-
000 bushel of ;;rain. plus vast quantities of
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meats and fats.
"The Ribinxdq(! (ICOII'r iitlonl of shipping has
rnade it necessary to abandon the hope of bring-
ing food from South America, Australasia and
India.
"Food must, therefore, be shipped from
Canada and the United States—the nearest anal
safest route.
"Canadian and United States supplies are
normally 350,000,000 bushels short of the Al-
lied needs. By greater production and conserva-
tion Canada and
the United States
must combine to
increase the ex-
port of grain by
150,060.000
bushels.
"The remain-
ing shortage of
200, 000,000
bushels must be
overcome by
greater reduction
i n consumption
in the allied coun-
tries. And this is
being done by
Britain, Fran ce
and Italy ration-
ing their people.
"From t w o
and a half years
of contact with
the German
Army I have
come out of the
horror with the
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 eche for-
ever along the hill tops of history.
To Send More Food to ' ur
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 crsrilization and for our pro-
tection have a higher claim than had Lazarus, 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.
As the shipping situation snakes 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 European
field will cause a
The 4 eart of , his
Pro e is La i §Lir
Without More Farm Labour
More Food Cannot
be Produced
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.
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 in-
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 fanner, in the name of the.
Fatherland, supports a nation t*o-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 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 Can-
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."
Lloyd George's Warning
"1 fear the disciplined people behind the Ger
man Army, the rationed family and the deter-
mination of 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.
Italy 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
we hope to win. The rationed British Nation,
blood of our blood, bone of our hone, are proud-
ly paying the price and sharing with France and
Italy their limited stock of food, For in this there
very heavy drain
on that country's
food resources,
There must be
no peace without
victory.
For nearly
four years Ger-
many has been
struggling
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 s h e is at-
tempting by in-
trigue, sugges-
tion, device and
propaganda to di-
vert the attention
of her antagon-
ists from 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 C,..Lada 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 : y'.ie is beaten. The 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. 1 doubt if her
Government is even sick of this war. You've
read the speech of that old brigand, Herding. is
there any sign of 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! Germany is back in her mood
of 1914. She believes she is winning 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
from this war with the feeling 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 absolute truth. 1 mean when 1 say
it that it would in very truth be a million times
better for the people of these islands to be deed,
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 made
safe for democracy—
to GLac lk of food means disaster and subjugation
ermany. r" 1� Ckizerlis of Ontario Must
Lead This Mighty Crusade
h,�rr �lrreatorr' eeed 'rod r l➢ctio t
They did it last year and will do it again.
/' - the greal•'st food -producing Province,
Ontario mast maintain her leadership in Ameri-
ca , Great are our opportunities—our responsi-
bility is tremendous.
- Upon every mann and woman, boy and girl,
rests a personal ohliation to serve. Every
pound of food produced, in whatever form, is a
c lintribution to the Cause of Freedom.
Ontario farmers should sow 500,000 acres
of spring wheat.
Every Ontario 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 I
At 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 work two fac-
tors are essential. The first is Time. Whatever
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 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 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.
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 ®f Resources Committee
Parliament Buildings, Toronto Ontario.
CHAIRMAN: His Honor Sir John S. Hendrie, IC.C.lYI.G.,
Lleutenant.Governor of Ontario.
MEN; Honorable Honorable Sir William 11. Hearst, lb.C.M.G, Prime
Minister of Ontario; William Proudfoot, Esq, K.C., Leader
of the Opposition. SECRETARY : Albert FL Abbott, Esq.,
Pb.b.
.e only thing that balks Gertnan am ition is the battle line in France and— the British
Navy. The _rely thing that sustains our men on land and sea is Food.
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