The Lucknow Sentinel, 1918-03-28, Page 6Lackof Food
reatens the Battle
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"The food *anted Ey ran-
kind docs not ems'
The word 'shortage' Vii: not'
strong enough,
The whole world is up,
against a .nasi,, thing,.
familiar to the people o}
Indict, culled `fxainiale»"'
—Lord Rhondda,
Britain's Food controller.
Otte year ago, only the enemy was on
rations. „ a •
Ta -day, Great Britain, Franc and Italy,
are on ratio..
.
Today, Germany: controls the wheat
lands of Rouyia da, Russia„ . Poland and
Ukrinia.
To -day,; the shadows of hunger, famines.
disease.and death hang over .the Allies,
Upon the 1918 crop from Canada and
�
the United States
. es depends the , fate of the:
democratic peoples 'of the world.
If that crop Is sufftelent 'tt4e Allies can
he fed..
I# that, crop is not `'stiff relent Ike Allies
may have to accept: a German :peace.
The world's decrease in live stock, as coin- is mighty pride, a conscious measuring of their
,pare to 1913, is ,approximately 115,000,000 glory with the best traditions of ancient Sparta,
and of Imperial Rome, for Britons know that
upon therm rests the burden of saving humanity.
The story of their service shall ring and echo .for-
• ever along the hill -tops of history.
Herbert Hoover Says:,
1 "Our European Allies are dependent upon
we have
Food
To Send More to :Our.
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Not Charity
itis war. The Allies have .a'right to demand
than
us for. greater 'quantities of food t.
ever before .exported. They are the, first line of
our defence. Our money, our ships, our life
blood, aixtnotleast of all, OUR -FOOD supply,
must be of a comixion stock.
"Ip, pre-war times, Britain, France, Italy and
Belgium yearly nnportted :more than 7.'"50,000,
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-
ingfood.from South America, Australasia and
India. .
"Food must, therefore, be :'shipped from
Canada and the United` States=the nearest and
safest route, - A,
a "Canadian. and United States supplies are
normally 350,0.00,000 .bushels- short of the Al-
lied needs. By greater production and'conserva-.
tion. Canada and
the United States
must combine tQ.
increase the ex-
port of grain' by
150,000.,000.
bushels.
That Battle -Line in France and
• Flanders Must Not Want
remain-
ing , shortage • of
200,000,000
bushels ,must be
overcome by
greater • reduction .
leo you realize what a German Peace
i n consumption : •
would 'mean to Canada? in the allied coup-
. • . tries,. And. this is:
`--Geriau covetrl�-naturat `resources --being • one • y
7 -our
; .- Britain, France:
--�anr a andmineral :wealth,' ourF . ,. ..
and Maly ration-
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forests,: our fisheries, .
� �• everything that:' Is : .
ing their people.
Canada s.,
• •1~rom. two,
Germany won't be sdtisiled with Euro- Ana a _half years
of ;contact' with
peon territory, with Teeming masses, wrang-
. . ,hee
Gr.rnan :..
Bag faelians and depleted natural resources. Army 1 .h av
• She 'wants. colonies -big, thinly -populated Koiner wout .of the
orroith. the . ••
countries. In temperate zones for her `sons h
confete: convic-
p
T_.
it. They have a rightto resent the offer 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
onlyr •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
e .net
role
ithout Mo:
More F
• the European
field will cause a
very heavy drain
rt �f This
is Labour
e Farm Labour; ,.
od Cannot
odnced:<. .n
If you,
',Country in .a
register now
or urge or a
g
employees 'to
solemn and absolute truth. l **eon when i say
it that it would in very truth be a million times
better for the people of them islands to be dead,.
every one of thena,,rather than live on u the -
serfs of a triumphant Prussia. " ' ° • •
How can any lover of liberty remain in$end
sible to this peril?
Food means. Victory and. the world made
safe for democracy -,-
Lack of food means disaster and subjugation
fi o Germany.
The Citizens of Ontario Must
Lead This Mighty Crusade
forGreater Food Production -
They hey did it last year and will do it again.
As the greatest R food -producing Province,
Ontario must maintain her leadership in Ameri-
ca.: - Great are our.opportunities—our responsi-
,.
bility is.tremendous. •
Upon every man and, woman,'boy and girl,
rests a personal obligation to : serve." Every
pound of food produced, in whatever fon*, is a
contribution to, the Cause of Freedom.
Ontario faii ors 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
on that country's
food resources.
•There must be ,
no peace without At �?l costs production must be maintained.
aswh
�- Thi
victory. ; y farmers and farmers'sons are
;For n e a r l y p. being exempted"from military service..Working.
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what YOU Can Do to Help
on a farm is equivalent to service in the Second:
Litre ,Trenches. . •
To 'enable the farmer to do.the Work two filo.
tors are essential: The first is Time_ . Whatever
we are to do must be done at once. Nature waits
ors of law and. ori
der. She has fail- . for no man. The second is Labor: Many farmers
• ed so far to make cannot plant the,acres'they would because they
go er escape
tan of -get t-Iie nec-essa eIp Marty- are afraid
four years Ger-
many has been
'struggling.
against •the pow-
If
ow
art to .serve your
ig practical way,:
or . farm . labour, •
list :your:: reale
o.so..
and daughters`to go to propagate their hind. tion that autocracy is a political faith -and a sys
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 s mond a complete ins ir'ation- of devotion and
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queror. self-sacrifice inits people' to the interest of their
nation. The German fanner, in the name of the
Fatherland,supports a nation two-thirds as large
as. the United States and threatens to. subject the
world from,arearea one-half the ,size of Ontario..
"My 'virion' of war is not . 'of an academic
problem to be solved by discussion. To the it is
a vision of brave, dying men and ,suffering wo-
ineii 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 inspire
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on but the thou h every .,spade -ful? -of
_� 7^±aa+aaari. *macro ++taw a rim z. arc'—a3s
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tem that directly endangers and jeopardizes the
future of our race—that threatens our very in-
dependence. ft has, however, been able to con
4nd'what's more, the Germans would offer.
_themselves' for the sacrifice,sogreat is their sub-
jection to the military ideal. •
The only thing that balks German -ambition
• is that battle line from the North Sea to Switzer--
land -rand the,B ritish Navy,
he Only Thing That Sustains` our
Men en Land and Sea --Is Food
..._...W at- am: __ ch. one et rt; T+_'x_r: aa.�*.
What- '.RZ Ly, "e'FL1 ,litiIIV• vR +� 3-, as �:aun
.4 •1� n4FJ .
Germany, by her submarine campaign, has
seen that great Armada, the British • Mercantile
11 rine, shrinlvin volume.
Germany has seen South America, Austra-
ha,..New Zealand, India and far away outposts
of the Empire practically cut off from supplying
,food to the Motherland.because of the lack of
Forty ziullion Allied arid-Woiiiinhaving
been put on war work- fooctproduction has dant-
_ garously decreased in Europe.
These forty .. ... illi Y
million consume more food titan
when they were in ordinary occupations, and
• there are fewer men for fanning. Hence an in-
creased demand and'decreased supplies. '
Only with 'a discipljined people behind can'h idol be coag than thatGe hould ' Bement Build' T •
erty of the world:',
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Lloyd George's; Warning..
"1 fe=ar the disciplined people behind the Ger-
man Army, the rati,• ned f airily. and the deter-
mination
eter
urination of wife and sister and: daughter and
2nother to stand a d starvemoo that their Baht
- mg men -be fed I feast more than t Im-
perial German Army itself." _ _ _. _
Britain is now cin Food Rations.
France is now on Food' Rations.
witl'her booty by
superior' strength
and skill. An d
`now she ' -is at-
tempting by in-
trigue, • sugges-
tion, device and
propaganda to: di.-
vert
ivert the• attention
ofher antagon-
ists from the
struggle itself,. and thus to gain her ends by re-
laxing the strength and 'skill :of her antagonists.
Whatshe can gain from these tactics is plain
to allthe 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 y the living armies of freemen.. Her most
dangerous weapon is her propaganda of peace.
While with her hands shemurders and de-
spoils,
e-
s ils with her voice she invites to parleys.
Po ,
When Liberty is in. Peril There is
Threat of Lasting Disaster -in
-. _ :_e a Word ord' "Peace"
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Let us not lament what MIGHT be,' but
earnestly face_what MUST be. __
Fifteen thousand boys between die of
fifteen and nineteen must be organized: as "Sol-'
diers of the Soil" to work: on Ontario farms this
tease eir acreage because they fear they;
would not be able to cultivate andharvest an un''
usual crop after theyhad raised it.`•
The burden is not one to bey
laced solely
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upon the farmer. Neither can it be placed upon
the townsman. It is a personal obligation, upon
everytnarix woman, boy and girl, in every. farm,: :-
town and•city home in theProvince of Ontario.
AWAY WITH CRITICISM—CO-OPER-
ATE! Mr City man, don't say that: the farmer
should do seed -so, and thus allow criticism' m
this hour of our Nation's peril to cripple your
effort:
Mr. Farmer, e
don't hastilynder=estimat the:
value t : tman' can ,be to you. .,
Get Together in: the: Fight .
For Liberty:
Farmers can get one or more of these boys
by applying to their District 'Representatives or
to the Public�Employment Bureaux at Toronto,
Ottawa, Ha riiilton or London. '
Unmarried -men, --exempted _ from military
_. r � 1.. �r: i -. service, are air ►e fi to take it f - ,44-. _
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rsaa. xac,ru�.,. R.a k��.. ��,w e.t--•.�,. ,it.... ��? 1pr�agR?.. , Y°0'r er.
a ...1z3,cH. t++.,�,.��!aR4C#_+1....:.. ��u�..— ...en =�r.�,xr,..�.n4s�...s_."a'>._ . , :t.:'�t sx"d�'..[n .>�-•. ,yavea:.V
,tented, in a r�cia� iaitervew _,_...1"1:,:"
#ated:' . ; , '
farm are ur ed to: resume farm work for a seas
«Your will move i be isle to dictate terms to' . son. Employers of labor are asked, to assist men
Ge nany - e is beaten'.. The argument you ' to take up farm work.
mention
founded n the dangerous fallacy We urge the farmers and the townsmen to
that because is sick of this war she is get together for greater production in the inter-
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. ...- Y. .. ,, �. .,• .. " ' eats of a free People . _ . _
freedemocracy.
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sick of war m geuieraL S'lie�istri..t..f -doubt if Tier people and denocrac .
Government even stick .of•this war. 'You ve . •Let the Organization of Resources Commt-
r�aed the speech of than old brigand, Herding. Is . tee, yo'ar Distract Representatives or the Public
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repentance . .. _ _ a�►t speech? ..�.z �. �._-_��.�W� y.._� reau�....�a►et..as.�_ . : .__
�.Ihex�.ae<nyt.sigr�:Q_.�r��e<�_ ih . � _.� ,Oran in#ermedi _.
><t aa'cfiasteaed speech.? Is it the .:. . of _ a .:..Aries. .. .
statesman who wants disarmament and a league When' we have done our best, the cry for
of nations? No! Germany is back in her mood .. food cannot be wholly met. .
e f 1914. She b Teves size file wain. For the rest—, -our Allies. ere tightening their
Italy is on the verge of starvation. Only con - She believes she I. won now. And if we talk 'belts.
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tenuous -support from .us can enable us to hold of she HAS•woii it. Why, 4 would' hetet, u �_.
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The harvest of France was one-third less in
1917 than1916, and this'year mut :gib smaller
still, ,owing to lack of fertilizers,,which cannot be
supplied through shortage of shinnm$•
ter a thousand times that every :ruin in England - • 'or anus 011 0 •Resources Committee
s o mina ray s issue ar iaiinen mgs, oronto 'Ontario.
IRMAN His Honor Sir .!o
Lieufeoaot-tioVernor of lin S« I•I.en�Isie,1�S.C.14'I.g$;,,
Ontario. VICE- HAIR.
we. hope to win... The •rationed.. British Nation, freanai,thi water with the f aaf as in texer.
blood of:.oarr,bloot , bone of our bone, are proud- 1' Your hear people xitse.�he phrase; `tea► the last max,
ly paying the price and sharing with France and., and the t shilling,' andyou think it is only,
Ital their limited stock of food.. Foran this there '` ' a
bit of • rhetoric., but to my mind it's the most
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MEN.; Honorable _ sir William. H. Hearst, K.C.Mdi P l
Minitte�' of Ontario; William Proudfoot, Et ., ICC, Leader
of the .Opposition. SECRETARY n. Albert . If. Abbott, Psq.,
Ph.D.
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c .onlY thing -that balk6*German and ►ition • is the battle line in France acid -pi- the British
Navy. . The only tag that sustains. our men on land and sea is Food.
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