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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1918-03-28, Page 5Thursday, Mr, 28th 1918 >rN l<MO LA..M r.,� Tillt4 WO taken from the I+sarlehatal Zeonomist:•-errivate Colin AteNaugh- ton, son, of John and Martha l'teNaugh ton of Bluevale, and grandson of Mrs. Jas, t+'reneh of 'Unionville, who has seven other grandsons at the front,, doing their share in the de- fence and honor of our Empire, laid down iia life at the early age of 1401'1and0 our esteem, and calls out our sympathy tet the bereaved re- latives and friends. Whoa man forgot tiro 1a.w of live, That gives hies likeness to his Lord, And turned away from path of right And Epurned the claims of God's own, word. When lust of Trower did fill his mind FrDELIS' 13141T,t ¢6 c .\tit' aim to conquer nations all, ,And his might led out his uonc, ;Who mo in answer to its call. .And trampled on his wea.t:cd. foe With erusd heel and heart of hate kTiil men united in their nii};1tt To save themselves frcan•ruthlet;:; fate And loolung unto God for light, Their sons did meet in grand array, of f "The food wanted 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." —Lord Rhondda, Britain's Food Controller. One year ago, only the enemy was on rations. To -day, Great Britain, Trance and Italy, are on rations. To -day, Germany controls the wheat lands of Roumania, Russia, Poland and Ukrania. To -day, the shadows of hunger, famine, disease T,, .p ,::.:p: r11 hang over the Allies. 1l 9.13 crop from Canada and the E;JNA ?res depends the fate of the denite, ;,° : , Vies of the world. sufficient the Allies can if tl4 is not sufficient the Allies may have ceps a German peace. That I3attIP-line in France and Finders Must Not Want Do you re:llze what a German Peace would mean to Canada ? Germany covets our natural resources 1, -our agricultural and mineral wealth, our forests, our fig heries, everything that is Canada's. Geri any Aral be satisfied with Euro- peap. *erp,t a 7, , �, . ° " •Zg masses, wranj .aftaral resources. She wants colnbes—lg, thinly -populated countries in temperate zones for her sons and daughters to go to g:ropagate 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 ideal. The only thing that b dks German ambition is that battle line from 3 North Sea to Switzer- land ---and the Britis'; N.e.vy. The Only Thing That Sustains Out Men on Land and Sea—Is Food What are we, each one of us, prepared to do to insure that Fool < . 71y? Germany, seen that Marine, marine campaign, has 'e British Mercantile Germany -:ra South America, Austra- lia, New Zealana...l, ik .-iia and far away outposts of the Empire practic<diy cut off from supplying food to the Motherland because of the lack of ships. Forty million Allied men and women having teen 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. TELE W L.N G A A,DVAN OE Page Five I In home above, that's free from t:trito Annual 'Ct•ic•111nuie :►lacth g. 4:^ proet'reci ' 3d ir."ttalWd. `J.l,. itiitsecr;:and DiMet,or(, elected for the ! t The annual meeting of tta 1 e: - I s t, of if:ttt�'ric;; and all hind, of onsuiu ;'c? tt': „t;ee:dent, laic OW* L of greater ,owc have. none than this wick Mural Totei,'i,one Cca:!.pany w� ao "utat€rials: ue::1 Lia, increar:cd in many o,on; vice-Vrow$detat. Jot. wiitiamson.;. To ;viae hie iiia tor that of trice?d held in Brown's, 'Hall en 'wednecrlay elven to more than d.oubie oince the Director;, --A. E. Cooper; Thos. Me- r'or eottntt'a"'s Gal:o, Go dear to all lata, There Wray not a; taro an at- cC�tlttlic'P,wC1'.tEtlt. of the war, but in (,ie:nent and W. II. tlte^ . c r 'al hich in his death he acid defend ' jtet( E e .r .racy fondanco of :baac•holderu at, wvao ch- opite of titer; the not e4ritini; of the Treaty. J If. Jlo er;>; Andiron%. Dutton Shall wo not honor all who tint; '.peete:l, 'here wa:.r. quite a number of {('o,'tpany to 1::»» heist year wa'l -cry Leonard and A. J', 1'atterc;ou, JIa;e followed where the Maoter trod. new telepitorea Juetalted lar,t year muds In r•;.�:er of prcviouu yeaci. i _ And leave theta in the hands of hint and a number of applleatione are in'and spealact well for tate very careful ' } ()� }paid in advance reads 'fans AD. Who is their I sifter, and their God. the Secretary's hands for telepoltne and oilieieatt ta:attagenient of the Com. w'�z+ctsint� att1� lienee itt (asses until "J 1tip1 1' I - 1 ; .000 home;,, `with roan ge bravo that knew no tear .As tor the right they fought each day. r'ell .sacrifice their only thought 1'or these whose they had left behind With patience wrestling day by day, No 1notri lit 01 failure in their spud. But};t:t;:t ening to the end, So oft until the end of life, Whtcia hut presaged a greater gain --Ingleside service as soon its Instruments can pauy'a businewi icy the Pireetorrs. The ..)anatary , , p, t :snow read ire over '7r the battle line ?e �re-;nze in live stock, as c �corn. 913, 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, 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 bring- ing food from South America, Australasia and India. • "Food must, therefore, be shipped from Canada and the United States—the newest and safest route. "Canadian and United States supplies are normally 350,000,000 bushels short of the Al- lied needs. By greater production and conserved tion Canada and the United States must combine to increase the ex- port of grain by 150,000,000 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 two and a half years of contact with the German 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 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 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. "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 induc.ment 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." LI yd George's Warning1 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 echo for- ever along the hill tops of history. • To Send More, Food to Our Allies Is Not Charity It is war. The Allies have a right to demand it. They have a right to resent the ca:c: of only what is ' `left over." Those who are fighting the common battle for civilization 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 makes 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 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 escapee with her booty by superior strength and skill. A n d now she is at- tempting a by in- trigue, sugges- tion, device and propaganda to di- vert the attention of her antagon- ists £ r o m 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" he ' eart f roblemisL Without More Farm Labour More Food Cannot be Proaced If you really want to serve your Country in a big, practical way, register now for farrn labour, or urge or assist your male employees to do so. "I fear the disciplined people behind the Ger- man A t my, the rationed fancily and the deter. minaation 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 Inh• 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 bone, are proud- ly paying the price and sharing with France and Italy their limited stock of food. For in this there ii✓ii�.ii� 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 she 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. " the isn't. I doubt if her Government is even sick of this war. You've read the speech of that old brigand, Hertling. 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 Gernnany 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 nay mind it's the most solemn and absolute truth. I mean, when I 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 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 -- Lack of food means disaster and subjugation 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, Ontario must maintain her leadership in Ameri- ca . Great are our opportunities—our responsi- bility is tremendous. Upon every man and worrian, boy and girl, rests 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. Every Ontario farmer whose land is at all suitable should put an extra five acres into wheat, even at the expense of another crop. 1 What YOU Can Do to Help 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 and 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 noz 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 1 oronto, 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 of Resources Committee Parliament Buildings, Toronto Ontario. ` CHAIRMAN: His Honor Sir Jolm S. Hendrie, C.V.U., Lieutenant'(iovertner of Ontario. VICIt.CHAIR,. MEN; Honorable Sir William 14. Hearst, R.C.M.O., Prime Minister of Ontario; William Proudioot, F?scl., ICC., Leader of the Opposition. SLt1R1 'FA1tY : Albert 11, Abbott, limb, Ph.1). The only thing that balks German ambition as the battle line in li‘rance and— the British Navy. The only thing that sustains our men on land and sea is Food Ca 16. sem,-,':....,w __ __ r ..:.:.::. .::. a CO V %-.. i�.