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THE CLINTON NEW ERA.
eats °s
1 OWTM" .11O
"The food wanted by arm -
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, France and Italy,
are on rasions.
To -day, Germany controls the wheal
lands of Roumania, Russia, Poland and
Ukrania.
To -day, the shadows ofhunger, famine,
disease and death hang over the Allies.
Upon the 1918 crop from Canada and
the United States depends the fate of the
democratic peoples of the world.
If that crop is sufficient the Allies can
be fed.
If that crop is not sufficient the Allies
may have to accept a German peace.
That Battle -Line in France and
_L Handers Must Not Want
Bo you realize what a German Peace
would men to Canada?
Cerana i y eves and
FnCa!pturpal�,r resources
-'-i�•r'MA' ,L�`1C'�V.� liar i 6'�.�indi mineral eral Wealth, our
forests; our fisheries, everything Mal is
Canada's.
Germany won't be satisfied with Euro-
pem territory, i,yith teeaning Enasses, wrang-
ling inU'a€I.p,s, a ii depleted natural resources.
tt }'��,, ,
:•: fT, 8x colonies—big, m !-
�><r:2 a�al,i.s eo vluc�.s---ti}i�, fihia>:3� popn ate
countries hi temperate zones for her sons
and daughters to go to propagate 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-
gtiei•or.
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 Seam -is Food
A— - -e-
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 Ernpire 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 to 1913, is approximately 115,000,000
head.
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,
I The story of their service shall ring and echo for.
Herbert Hoover Says: ever along the hill tops of history.
"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 nearest and
safest route.
"Canadian and United States supplies are
normally 350,000,000 bushels short of the Al-
lied needs. By greater production and conserva-
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 t w o
and a half years
of contact with
the German
A.rrriy 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."
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 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 "cr`umbs 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 skipping 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 escape
with her booty by
superior strength
aricl skill. A n d
now she is at-
tempting by in-
trigue, sugges-
tion, 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 f -ores 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.
The Heart of This
ro Ism is Labour
Without ore Farm Labour
More Food Cannot
be Produced
If you really want to serve your
Country in a big practical way,
register now for farm labour,
or urge Or assist your male
employees to do so.
Lloyd George's Warning
".I fear the disciplined people behind the Ger-
roan Amy, .the rationed family and the deter-
mination of wife and sister and daughter and
mother to stand and starve—so that their fight-
ing meen may be fed—• -1 fear it more than the Im-
perial Gernntn 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
When Liberty is in Peril There is
Threat of Lasting Disaster in
the Very Word "Peace"
solemn and absolute truth.
it that it would in very trut
better for the people of thes
every one of them, rather
serfs of a triumphant Prussi
How can any lover of 1
sible to this peril?
Food means Victory a
safe for democracy—
Lack
Lack of food means disa
to Germany.
The Citizens of
Lead This Mig
for Greater Food
They did it last year and
As the greatest food -p
Ontario must maintain her 1
ca . Great are our opportu
bility is tremendous.
Upon every man and w
rests a personal obligatio
pound of food produced, in
contribution to the Cause of
•Ontario farmers should
of spring wheat.
Every Ontario farmer
suitable should put an ext
wheat, even at the expense
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 ' aIle 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
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 1 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 Gerrnany 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 my mind it's the most
What YOU Can
At all costs production r
That's why farmers an,
being exempted from militar
on a farrn is equivalent to s
Line Trenches.
To enable the farmer to d
tors are essential. The first
we are to do rnust be done at
for no man. The second is L
cannot plant the acres they
cannot get the necessary h
to increase their acreage bac
would not be able to cultivat
usual crop after they had ra
The burden is not one
upon the farmer. Neither c;
the townsman. It is a persc
every man, woman, boy anc
town and city home in the 1
AWAY WITH CRIT]
ATE! Mr. City man, don't
should do so-and-so, and th
this hour of our Nation's b
effort.
Mr. Farmer, don't hastil
value the city man can be t
Get Together
For Lib.
Let us not lament w
earnestly face what MUST
Fifteen thousand boys
fifteen and nineteen must
diers of the Soil" to work
season.
Farmers can get one o
by applying to their Distri
to the Public Employment
Ottawa, Hamilton or Lond
Unmarried men, exer
service, are urged to take
ried men who have had pre
farm are urged to resume
son. Employers of labor a
to take up farrn work.
We urge the farmers
get together for greater p
ests of a free people and d
Let the Organization �.
tee, your District Represe
Employment Bureaux a
cries.
When we have done
food cannot be wholly in
the rest—our Alli
belts.
Organization of Res
Parliament Buildings,
CHAIRMAN: Flis Honor Sit
C.V.O., Lieutenant.aovernor o
MIEN; Sionoralrle Sir William
Minister of Ontario; William P
of the Opposition. SlCRETAR
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