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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1918-03-29, Page 6ONTAn1iC1 "The, food mantledtwin. kityi does not wrist The Word 4shorisiel is not: - strong -0 strong°0► The ,whole world .is up against a nastything; if amilier to ethe peop+ecatiq t. --=Lord Rls± Br°itadn's` •to Conwwo . One year ago, only they rations. s� Thy, Great Britain, Froze and Imo, are on rations. Taffy, 'Germany controls, the wheat landi of Roumania - - Rusi 'Poland aid Uhran T+ the e shadows of hurt disease. and death hanii over #ha A. Upon to 1918. crop from Canada and the United States depends the fate of - Ike democrats Pages et thevo If that crop sufficient '. the Ades an be fed. If that crop is not sufficient.: the Allies may have to accept a Ger That `Ba e- i .e in . France Flanders `Must No Do you real . what .3 German Peace would mew to Canada Germany cove . natural., resources —our agricultural anti mbteraI e forests, our. fisheries, everything that is dada's. Germany won't be satisfied with Euro- pean territory, with. teeming. masses, wrang- ling factions. and depleted natural resources. She wants colonies --big, thinly -populated countries in temperate mons for her sons and daughters to go to propagate thew kind* The Kase would `sacrifice millions of Ger- mans to-morr ? w if he thought that by so doing he could set foot pn Canada's shores as Con- queror. And what's more,. the -Germans would offer themselves for the sacrifice, so great is their sr Jttkon tothe military ideal. The.only thing ,that balks German ambition is that battle line from. the North Sea to Switzer- land -rand the British Navy: The Only Thing That Sus Our Men oil Land and Sea -Is Food What are we, each one of us, prepared to do to insure that Food supply? Germany., by her submarine campaign, has seen that g .neat Armada, the British Mercantile Marine, shrink in volume. Germany has seen South► , America, Austra- lia, New Zealand, India and faraway outposts of thedEmpire 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 ati 1 ': �, to �1���� . a�paoa y 15 Ed Hoover Says: " , . Ern Allies are d , dent" upon ns for er quantities of food :anwe have ever be ore exported, Tleey are first line of our defence. Our money our • ,ps, our life blood, and not least of all, OUR ; OOD supply, vausttbe of a common stock. "k pre-war times, Britain, F yeaily imported more lensliels of grain, plus • meats and fats. _z _ ,.submarine destruction of shipping hes made it necessary to abandon di hope of g- • ing food from South Aaerica, Austral and India.. , `"Food nit, . therefore, be shipped from Com. and the United 'Stat ' nearest unit e, Italy and 75(1,000; - quant tiee. of safest route "Canadian and Unilted _ St. 150,000,000 bushels lied needs. By greater product tion Canada and: the !United States mut, combine to increase the ex- po+tt of grain by 1510,00,0,O'00 bu4he1s. The remain" ira shortage of Z: 0,000,000: b fshels must be overcomeby g> eater reduction i i consumption in the allied coun- t$ies. And this is being, done by lntain' F r a n ce Italy oration- i their people; 'Trim two and a half years of , contact with the German Army l have Come :out of the horror with the rtes supplies are short of the Al- on andconserve- is mighty pride, a oonecire ineasuring of r their glory with the beat tnittitions of ancient Sparta, and of Imperial Rome, fiarstiritonss know that upon them rests the burden.:of saving humanity , The story of their service shall ring and echo for- ever along the ha tops tif history. To. Send ire Food' t Allies It Not It is wain TIonAillites bore a right to demand it. They have atilt& tosae est thesoffer of only wilsat is "lefteoena none. viiimat aiR, fighting the conreon bailie for civilatidefor our pro tectioh er Lazarus, to only the "esenribe that Eittiewile rich mat T Cessackneetpeopie asse recognize deal "'j' - Ani fit ta on our supplies. ), a AT the ai rxts die Allies dependentnpaseitnilkieth e `continent for. food, it is Tatar teary that Cancun should increase law induction of food in order to take a hang r part in providing for the Allies' requirements. nts. This is especially urgent as the maintenance. of a 'large United States army :!n the European. —.— field will cause a ie Heari roble of This sLabour Witout NLabour More Food Cannot _be Produced� if you really want,to serve your �ountiy in a:big practical way, tegister now for farm labour, Or urge or assist your male mployees to do so. 4 Complete convic- tion that autocracy is a political faith and a_ sys- tem that directly endangers and jeopardliizes the future of our race-e.that' threatens our very in- dependence. !tiles, .however, been able to com- iband a complete inspiration of devotion and. self-sacrifice in its people to the nterest of their nation. The Gerrnan farmer, in the name of the f atherland, supports a nation two-thirds as large as the United States and threatens to subject the world front an area one-half the size a of Ontario. "My vision of war is not of an academic roblem• to be solved by discussion. To me it is at vision of brae, dying risen and suffering wo- men and children, for service on whose behalf the greater exertion of the Allies' farmers comes as a &reit 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 nspiration but the thought that every spade full of earth turned, and every animal reared is lessen-, Ing humeri suffering and guaranteeing the crty of the world." Lloyd George's Warning "1 fear the disciplined ed people behintht1ie'Ger- Man Army, the rationed family and 'the deter- ruination of wife and sister n and daughter. and: mother to stand and starve—so that -their fight - men may be fed --I fear it more than :the am. penial. German Array 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 BritielettNatiozette blood of our blood, bone of our bane, are pi-Tido:- 1y' rado:ly' paying the price and sharing wit} France and; Italy their limited "stock of food. For in ,this.:tbere erman a y: think that s veryheavy' 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 ipake 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, deviceand 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 - lace 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 t*sthg. Disaster in the Very. Word "Peace" Lord Leverhulme, long_ known in canasta as Ser William Lever, who knowswell the German mind, in a recent interview; stated: "You will never be able to dictate terms to Germany -.1 dtie 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. I doubt .if her Government, is even sick of this war. You've real the speech of that oldbrigand, Herding;. Is there any sign! of repentance in 'that speech? Is it a chastened ' speech? Is . it the speech of a statesman who wants disannament,and a league of nations? No Germany isback in her mood of 1914 She believes she is winning the war.. She believes she has won nowAnd. if we taik of :peace she:. HAS won it. Whyjit would be bel tern a thousand tunes that every man in Englund 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 roan, ani #.lige last shilling,' and you think it is*o_y ma bit 'of;=trhet'oric, ` but to my � `it's the most 14, • a filen # on- tt voriumf solemn and afolute truth. 1 mean *hen t say it that it would in very@ truth be a million times better for the people of these islands to be dead, every one. of L , . rather than live on as the serfs of it triumphant Pinola." • How can any lover of liberty remain insen- sible to this peril) Food means Victory and, the world made safe for democracy -- Lack of food. means &easter and subjugation o German*. . The Citizens_ of OntarioMust Lead ThisCrime for Greater.F Production _ p They did it'last year and will do it again. As the greatest ` food producing Province; .ario must maintain her leadership in Anneri" ca Great are our opportunities—our responsii hility is tremendous. r . Upon every man and woman, boy and girl, psis a personal obligation to serve. Every pound of food produced, in whatever form, is a contribution to, the Cause of Freedom. Ontario farmers should sow 500,000 acres of spring wheat. A Every Ontario farmer whose land is at all stutable should put an extra five acres into wheat, even at the expense of another crop. 1 mat YOU Can Do to -Help At all costs production must be rained. That'swhy farmers and farmers' stns are being exempted from military service. Working on a farm is equivalent to service in the: Second Line Trenches. To enable the farmer to cro the work two fat tors are essential. The first its 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' frail to increase them acreage because they fearthey would not be able to cultivate and harvest'anuri- usual crop after they had raised it. The burden is not one to 'be placed sully upon the farmer. Neither can it be placed upon the townsman.elt is a personal obligation upon every man, w..., boy and girl, in every farm, town end city home in the Province of Oft AWAY WITH CR1TIClSI-0 ATE! Mr: City man.; don't say that the f cshould do soapd`'-so, and thus allow criticisan i this hour oo our Nation's peril to cripple effort. Mr. Farmer, don't hastily under -estimate the value thy,je cityman can be to you. Get Totether - eter in the For Let us not lament what MIGHT be, but earnestly face what' MUST be. a".4`Fifteen thousand boys between thetages of fifteen and nineteen rnust be organized as "Sol- diers of the Soil" to work on Ontario farms this seeson, t 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. ried men who have had previous experience on a farm are urged to resume farm work `for a sea- son. eason. Employers of labor are asked to assist men to take up farm work. We urs the farmers and the townsmen to get together for greater production in the inter- ests r}of a,y'f�ree ,people and democracy. Let 'tie Organization of Resources Corninit- tee; youi District Representatives or the Public Employment Bureaux - act as your into rmedl- aries. When we have done our best, the ; cry for food cannot be 'wholly met. For: the rest—our Allies are tightening thei r belts. ` Organiz,fion of, Resources Committee Parliament _ Buildings, Toronto Onterint. CHAIRMAN: HishHonor Sir John S. flendrle, C.V.O., Lieutenant -Governor of Ontario. VICE -VIA*. MEN;, Honorable Sir William H. _ HemC. .G,, Prime Minist _of Ontario, William Proudfoot, Es , KZ., Leader of the opposition. SECRETARY r Albert . Abbott, J q ranee - and ---The British dFood.