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The word 'shortage' i net
strong cntgh.
The whole world Is arp
against a nasty thing,
familiar to the people of
India. called 'famine.'
—Lord Rhondda,
Britain's rood Controller.
One year ago, only the enemy was on
rations.
To -day. Great Britain. France and Italy.
are on rations.
To -day, Germany controls Ike wheat
lauds of Roumania, Russia, Poland and
Ukrania.
To -day. the shadows of hunger, famine,
disease and death hang over the Mlles.
Upon the 1918 crop from Canada and
the United States depends the tate of the
democratic peoples of the world.
If that crop is sufficient the Mlles cam
be led.
It that crop is not sufficient the Aures
may have to accept a German peace.
That Battle -Line in France and
Flanders Must Not Want
Do you realize what a German Peace
would mean to Canada?
Germany covets our natural resources
— our agricultural and mineral wealth. our
forests, our fisheries, everything that Is
Canada'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 zones for her sons
and daughters to go to propagate their kind.
The Kaiser would sacrifice millions of Ger-
mane ;q -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 balks German ambition
is that battle line from the North Sea to Switzer-
land—and the British Navy.
The Only Thing That Sustains Our
Men on 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 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 lalhve stock, as com-
pared to 1913, is approximately 1 15,000,000
head.
1 Herbert Hoover Says: 1
"Our European Allies are dependent upon
us for greater quantities of food than we have
ever before exported. They are the first line of
your 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
1 • :):. i air •
is mighty pride, a coriiaoiss riding of their
glory with the"oils of ancient Sparta,
and of imperial 1 r Brittle» know that
tupgn thenf rte tj tiutdert-ef moving humanity.
The story of their service shall ring and echo for-
ever along the hilltops 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 offer of only
what j "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
meats and fats. table."
"The submarine destruction of shipping has The Canadian people must recognize that
made it necessary to abandon the hope of bring- Our Allies have the first claim on our pod
ing food from South America, Australasia and supplies,
India. As the shipping situation makes the Allies
"Food must, therefore, be shipped from dependent upon the North American continent
Canada and the United States—the nearest and for food, it is vitally necessary that Canada
safest route. . should increase her production of food in order
"Canadian and United States supplies are - to take a larger part in provjtiins fox the Allyn:
normally 350,000,000 bushels short of the Al- requirements. This is especially urgent as the
lied needs. By greater production and conserve- maintenance of a large Unit e States army in
tion Canada and
the United States
must Combine to
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increase the ex-
port of grain by
150,0.00,000
'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. F ran ce
and Italy ration-
ing their people.
"From t w o
and a half years
of contact with
the G
erman
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 1 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."
... _.. - Europe
The Heart of This
Problem is Labour
Without Moro Farm Labour
More Fcid Cannot
be Produced
If you really what to serve your
Country in a big practical way,
register now for fartp labour,
or urge or assist your reale
employees to do so. .rm:•.
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 Archy 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 tie 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 proaproud-
lypaying the pie and abating with France and
Italy their limited stock of food. For in this these
t
eel
field will cause
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 b
sgperior strength
and skill. A n d
now a h e is at-
tempting by in-
trigue, sugges-
t:1un, 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 platin
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
bac} 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 Liber!y is in Peril There is
Threat of Lasting Disaster m
the Very Word "Peace"
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
G�any *Se 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 chastdned speech? Is it the speech of a
statesman who wants disarmament and a league
of nations? Nol Germany is bade in her mood
of 1914. She believes she is winning the was.
She believes she has won now. And if we talk
of peaceshe HAS won it. Why, it would be bet-
ter a thousand tmeskthat every man in England
skould be dead than that Germany should issue
frees this war with the feeling of a conqueror.
You boor people use the phrase, 'to the lest roan,
aasd the `st g,' and you think it is only a
bit of rhetoric, but to my mind it's the sheat
.
osis.ami absolute truth. 1 n when 1 Mr
it that it would in very truth bo.a stallion dimes
better for the people of these Isla adead.
s to be d 1
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 woman, 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 axes
of spring wheat.
Every Ontario farmer whose land is at all
suitable shou'.d put an extra five acres into'
wheat, even at the expense of another crop.
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 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 townamah. 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-
ATEI Mr. City man, don't say that the farmer
should do so-and-so, and thus allow criticism in
this hour of out; 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 m 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 die 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 b6m 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 productio%in the inter-
ests of a free people and democtacy.
Let the Organi etion 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. s
Or auization of Resources Committee
arliament Bulhgs, Toronto Ontario.
CHAIRMAN: His Honor Sir Joao S. Illoodrio. K.C.M.1,
Gv.O- of O.fari.. vIC-CHAIR-
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his �weills.. Oatodoi VV IcPy drw"s^ n• Abbott. Bq.
The only thing that
balks German ambition is the battle line in Prince aid-- the &lash
Navy. The only thing that sustains our men on land d sea is 'lood.--_ -
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