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RSMINISMINCE OF SMOOT" DAYS Til get through in oott time . Utey
AT SPROATS. ' , Put In their be hcks. t _
Then the aim summer evenings when
(Sy J. A. Laidlaw, Sacmmento, Cal.) b.......t..,4
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1 often go back in ray .moments of Theo
nly theutheokr, waif, heard,was
ent, will, :
To the little log school-houe, where 1 Onthe baaft;of the river we had Many
good chits, '
the Jamieson's taught;
Then there were Lees and fiolmes and And many good times right down on
* also Menary,
f.s
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Of whose pointer an# strap, the
boys were all wary;
Then there tame lady teachers for a
living to strive,
We had Miss McGaw for one year,
and Miss Wilson for five;
During Miss Wilson's regime my
school -days were o'er,
That 1 did not keep on, is a thing
deplore.
So here's to you young folks: Improve
- hence,
Or u' 'n some day feel sore when
ba and you glance.
The log school 1 vmember, which had
but one door• ,
With east and west windows and big
cracks in the floor.
• Down the cracks went our pencils, and
years later were found,
When the schoal -was torn down and
we dug in the gro-und;
The spelling snatehes on Fridays; oh,
how I did hate;
Gould scarce get tura words right
on the length of my slate...
But once by hard study by day and by
night, 1,
Out of thirty-two words, I got thirty
all right. -
Then teacher and pupils laughed both
loud and long,
For they thought that my nodie yad
surely gone wrong.
There was the creek, the liver, the
woods and wild -flowers'
Where the girls and the boys spent
many noon hours;
The may apples aild haws, the choke
cherries and wild plums,
Butternuts that discoloredour fint
gers and thumbs.
How manys apples we swiped, I guess
nobody knows;
We liked Archibald's red astrachans
and Bill Chesney's snows;
• The slippery. elm we peeeld and chew-
ed by the cord,
For bad colds it was sure a gift from
the Lord. • •
There was the acorn tree, down near
Pickard's gate,
The beeches asid maples both bushy
and straight;
- Many saplings we climbed and bent
over for swings,
We had bows and arrows and pop-
guns and slings.
There was -snowballing matches and
pump -pump -pull-away
Why we did. not get hurt, I sure can-
not say.
One time, football at noon hour was
" the general rule,
When Jim Ross and four aids play-
ed the -test of tire school.
There was Parker's nailk. wagon that
broke down with its load,
And for several: days ittooii out on
the road.
It very sow was dissected and quick-
ly taken ,;apart,
• The hind wheels and the hounds
were used as a cart.
With a boy- on each wheel, head and
feet btwenssnelsee.
Then we rushed down the road with
long strides and long strokes.
Yes We hit it up hard, gee whiz! what
apace,
We would have left Beattie's black
mare clean out of the race.
That we ever survived while playing
so rough,
We sure must have been both hardy
and tough.
There was Dave Laidlaw, who stood on
his head in the trees,
Or on the ridge of the roof or wher-
ever you -please.
The creek bridge once broke down with
John Teinpleton's team,
When'Stuart Mandell with bricks,
was crossing the stream.
Then that forenoon recess, when up
went the erY,
Here's Jim Sr.roat and Jack Powell
driving Humpy and Fly..
We all rushed to sleet them just chuck
full of glee;
With never a thought of what was
tcv
We met on the bri4ge and quick as a
thought, -
That -hay -rack upset and Sam Wal-
lace was caught.
can hear him to -day, his voice almost
increases,
"Lift the rack off, my leg is all
• broken to pieces."
The winter weather was cold, but Sam
was all grit;
For the many long days before that
bone knit.
In the bleak month of March, on his
back there be lay,
And ere he got well it was time to
make hay. •
George Reinke alone, was on one side
of that rack;
Fle Went over the bridge and came
down with a whack,
His west side came in contact with one
foot of ice, -
I scarcely imagine that it felt very
v, nice,
But without snauping a finger or ask-
ing* permisaion,
George very (slickly arose from his
• sitting position.
There was the briskyard where often
the boys went at noon,
And the good times we had there,
we will not forget soon.
The men with bare feet running off
with the bricks;
1MIIIMMIRMeNIP2.7YEREASIDOINZ.0-1—
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LISTEN TO THIS!
SAYS CORNS LIFT
RIGHT OUT NOW
You reckless men and women vita
We pestered with corns and who hay*
at least once a week invited an swfu!
gleath from lockJaw or blood poison
are now told by a CincinnatioUthillitT
to use ,a drug called treasons, whit%
the moment a few drops are e.polisd
te any corn, the soreness is relieved
axed soon the entire corn, root and all,
sifts out with the angers.
11 1 asticky ether eempound why
Aries the moment it is spoiled and
Amply &dad, the earn without Mann
Ing or even irritating ths surround.,
ing Moue or Adis. It is clamed that
a ef an ounce of freeeoae will
-., very little at any of pi drug.doreo,
but-la:sufficient to rid -one's tett at
awn peril, or soft coratoor canna.
You ate further -Warned thit -carttlna
st tom le-siestrieldat habit -
a
tile flats..
ere Jack" MAO and -Billy memo*
fan a; very elope race.
They were shoeless and. hatless and
red.in the face,
Afaim,:,,,toints went past when the
sleighing was good,
And With snowballs in hand, in a
• bench we all stood.
Whata *Or0 • -000Wballt Or AVM"'
-t the ttimiter who diiied to refuse
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tut* irost'of -the:tesaitia andtheir
ders quite well.,
If no chance for a tide we most al-
eotild
One tealS1.We knew well and we always
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in the nation's honour, heed!
Acquit yourselves like men.
As workers on the land, do your
duty with all your strength!"
—Lloyd George.
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THE CRISIS
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France, England and Italy in peace times did not
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 Mbtherland 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
restrictions are anticipated.
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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 -
taking authority to search the houses of Great
tam 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 -carrying ships have been
to bed sirite-February 1st, 1917
Germany hope for victory is in the starvation of
Britain'thf-Ough the'inbinarine.
Canada's 'sons Will have died in vain if hunger
compels the Motherlind'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?
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t_k,e1.) on 'writing but it would
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1/the' full story or sing all the
any years have gone by since we
went to school,
And got licked for opposing the
MAY 4,
teacher's home rule.
erhans troubles to smae have com*
both thick and fast,
And for a time all around thorn, a
shadow been cast,
ut no matter how hard by this
we are stung,
Let ua remember school days and
try to keep young.
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People are starving to -day in BeIghi, in Serbia, in
Poland, in Armenia, in many quarters -of the globe.
Famine conditions are becoming more wide -spread every
da.y.
On these gaming food conditions becoming lemma,
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 f his personal direction of the
distribution of food among the starving Belgians.
- -Mr. Hoover is already urging sacrifice and food restrie
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."
1 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:
Year Acres Bushels
Fall Wheat . • ... #916 704,867 14,942,060
1915 311,185 24,737,011
Batley and Oats . . . . 19/6
4.4 f` 1915
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Peas and Beaus . . .
61 • • • 0 •
Cern
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Petaibes Carro . .
Mangel-Wurseis
and Turnips . •. .
529,886 12388,969
552.,318 19;04,129
1916 95,5421,243,979
1915 126,943 2,043.049
1916 258,332 i2,717,072
1915 309,773 21,16096
1916 139,523 7,408,429
173,934 13,267,023
1916 42,793 9,156,015
1915 50,729 25,356,323
1111.€ DECREASE
freres Bushels
$5,315 9,794,961
24,432
7,504460
31,401 799,070
51,441 9,042,424
34,411 5AS04.
8,00; 15,440,301
Other crops show as critical decline.
Reports from Ontario on the condition of fall wheat kr
1947 are decidedly discouraging.
As there is an average of not more than one BM Mk
each hundred acres of farm land in Ontario, the
prospects -Indicate even a still smaller acreage under cutfivatim
in 1917 -unless extra labor is supplied.
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David Lubin, representative of the United States to the
International Institute of Agriculture—maintained by fatty
Governments—reports officially to Washington that the food
grains of the world on March 314, 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 R
which is ordinarily a great grain..exporting nation, resulted in
an embargo being:placed, in Mardi, 19174 upon the expect of.
grains from that country to avert local famine.
The United States Department of Agriculture, in ib
official report, announces the condition of the fall wheat crap
(which is two-thirds of their total wheat crop) on April tst,
1917, to be the poorest ever recorded and predicts a yield ot
244,000,000 bushels below the crop of 1915. The 1916 crop
was poor. Even with, favora.ble weather, the wheat- crop of s
the United States lis likely to -be the smallest in thirty -11w
years, not more than 64% of -the normal crop.
Under date of ,April inth, Ogden Armour, executive bead
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 Governnient 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 up!
Gointlekto3 W. S. neMrp...
Hunger
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—Photo front Londe* (Ella.) Bystander.
ar Old Girl at Work
Mies Alexandra Si/atti, one of the thousands of British WOBICIA
workers on the land. She recently won 'an All-Cornsr alms -
pion prize for plowing.
Food Production is the Greatest Problem
the World Faces To -day
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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 tines as many as from
Australia.
Therefore, every ton co,f food stuffs grown in Canada is
worth to the Motherland two tons grown in India or four tons
grown in Australia.
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Why the CO 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 willsuffer 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.
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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. To their care is entrusted the base
of supplies.
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Armoriefft.
To enable the farm to do the work two factors are essess.
tial. The first is Time. Whatever we are to do roost 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 a& afraid to increase
the: acreage because they fear they would not be able to ail&
vide nod harvest an unusual crop after they have raised It if
they are to do the work that is essential for doom to dor- dio lot
men in each city, town and village nsuot be mobilized at ' -m.
Every man not on Active Service can help. /n evay city,
town and village are men who, by their trahling on the far,
or by their present occupation, can readily adapt- themselves
farm work. These can render no greater service to t
pire at the present time than by answering the Call of the4sena
Capable men and boys willing to learn should not allow l*
lack of farm experience to stand in the way. ,
Can the employer render a me signal service in tits
crisis than by encouraging these nun to help the farmer to
cultivate every available acre, and by making it easy fin° Unto
to go?
Ontario's farm lands are watts the impnawe
ready—the equipment is cora& farmer is wilUng—oti1
he needs is labor. ,
So short is the world's food supply that without ilea
production many in Canada must go Itungry, and even with
enormously increased production we =not expect cheap food.
The world is waiting for our harvest.
If peace should be declared within a year, the food min-
ditions will be no better, for the accumulated hunger of fne
Central Empires must be met. This win absorb a tarp put te
the world's supply.
We do not know when this war shall it. It h meanie—
its iengthening out has paralyzed the thought and conception,
of all men who thou ht about- it and its " .con-
eluion. Three mon months, we id'nine melt**
we said; and yet two years andeigbt months have paned,
long dreary and sanguinary le d there is no Zan .
who can tar bow long this gigantic struggle may yet last. 1
Lloyd George, in a letter adthesaed to 414raaerS thnintin.
the Empice, said:
" The line whick Mite BritishE. hat
"against the Germans is held by those who wow
"ON THE LAND as seal as by those who
"on land and sea. 11 if breaks at am, -point•it
"breaks everitehere. In the face of the enemy the
"seamen of our Royal naval and meroantile merino
"and the soldiers gathered from every part of our
"Empire
holdour line fir**. You weikers o/0100
"mast hold your part of or The as strongly. Every
"fall day's labor you do helps to shorten the strag-'
"gle and brings as !soarer victory. Every kite dun
"all loitering, lengthens the straggle and makes
"feat more Possible. Therefore, in the nation's
"honour, heied Acquit yoursebses like men, ared
"workers on land do your duty with all your
"str=ngth 1"
So, for the honor of Canada's soldiers M France—aad
for the glory of our New-born Nationhood—let it be said of
Ontario's citizens thatoin the hour of our greatest need, tit&
response was worthy of their sons.
We owe a great debt to those who are fighting for u.
Organization of Resources Co ee,
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Chairman: His Honour, air Jetta S. Henries K.c.m..G., C.
Lieutenant -Governor of Ontari*; Viee-Chak.men: Honourable &r wa-
E. Hearst, 1C..C.M.G., Prina* Irmaister of Ontario; 1.1. W. Rowea.
rh-C.3Deader of the Oppodation; Secretary; Alber
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