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The Seaforth News, 1917-05-03, Page 8qe til@ li[itisl1 sailors' Relief Fun SEAFORM NEWS The follow tee leGte; hon l,eeu received fly the Mayor reger;liug the eoutributi torr made /test f':ail to the British Relief Fluid trete the l•'hel f••,rtl .:ei rho Ad miralty. • Mor le 9, tali. llcnr i ir• 1 shall i.e ;;ba.). i1 ,v,na will cenr,•v cu the Committee ..i the Itritish M:aiui'r' Relief Fuad, i.'anegia, the ristefsl1 thanks of the Board of A,boiralty fur! Plan iatunifieealt ee ntrileitiuu roads! through that Fend by the, people set! Canadaltowartle the reaiutenanoe of the various Charities, tirphRnages and 13ospitale established for the, benefit ;.nen iaelcnging tae the Royal Navy and of thoirifamibes. This;goneronu gift and the cordial "message of receepniti::u of the r.e.vice:s of the lleyai i9avy -..‘y which it -was accompanied, wi'1, I :s111 sure, give sat- iefacEi tla, f'Ic•e: aloof, it ir, pru- ao od teinform u5 your 'dounntraimvt .:on by :4 t;ei:t': ,i Vprr; a�+iPn d, ti Y:'^ w:.1 1 iei1 t+i vier that Ole 5ratetery V'eesinitten' %hic Pias been t '.lp by Parliament •` ender the loin i e. Marine !'erre ti Act: ,s being asked , a arrange lei' distribution of the tnouev in the rianimr ?,esire<n. May I be 1 e ;*cittit:l t. ey,l,ress own and lay eellc•agalrei piearlirce at tire. .•cecisioti of your Ceennittee to ellteate' a similar sum to the rapport of the in• ititutiois maintained for the beuellt of the Mercantile Marine, whose courage and endurance nave deservedly won, admiration and gratitude clic Empire, Sours faithfully. :Sgd Edward, Carson. First Ler,1 of the Admiralty W '1 Roes, Esq„ !'resident, British Saiiues' Relief Fusel, Canada. Tovell Is Brewing . The assessment is completed end shows that Seaforth is steadily growing having gained last year 11E of an ad- dition. The total assessment ie 31,1 During the year there were 22 births and 12 deaths. McKillop Many friends here will be grieved to hear of the death of Pte Geo Cranston who gave hie life for the Empire on April 10tn, Before enlisting he worked for some of the farmer's in the northern gentian of the Township, and was a quiet and industrious young man. The farmer's are busy preparing the land and sowing the need we hope there will be a fair return, Another lean year suoh as lag year was would copse misery and suffering. Last Sabbath at Bethel the eerlitie orae of a Patriotic nitturo and a'ae very interesting at this time of national anxiety and distress. The following from a paper publisher in Newmarket refere to a noon of Mrs tom. Smith of the Leedbury line Mc Eillop.—Word has juat been reeeired that nursing Meter Miss Marion Marsh slaughter of Mr Uriah Marek has been decorated by the King for her gallant *cruise with the Red Oroea at the frr,ut, Miss Marsh left home here two years ago and has been overseas ever sine, lefewmarket is very proud of their great honour tieing aonforred ou one of her own girls and the warmest uongratula. clot' is extended to her from the people of her home town. A Safe Pill for Suffering Women.— The secluded life of women which per- mits of little healthful exercise, is a fraitfttl pause of derangements of the etomooh and liver and is accountable for the laesitedo that sot many of them experience. Parmelee'a vego. table Pills will correct irregularities of the digestive organs and restore health and vigor. The delicate woman oan take them with safety, because their Ration, while effective, is mild and soothing. ora stilet Mrs Corbett of Stratford spent eome ime visiting relatives in the Town - hip. Harold Frederick aged nine menthe, ni of Mr and Mrs Jae Reynolds of Sea rth and formerly of Rullett was buried Ire in the Roman Catholic Cemetery it week. The parents have the apa- thy of their former neighbors, nlie most obetivato corns and warts to resist Holloway's Corn Cara It. t in the nation's honour, heed! Acquit yourselves like men. As workers on the land, do your duty with all your strength!" -Lloyd George. THE CRISIS France, England and Italy tin peace times did not dep. nd Emil America but on Russia. Roumania and Bulgaria ear most of their breadstuffs. With these sources closed the crisis of the flour demands that we see that our soldiers and the Motherland are fed. Everyone in Great Britain has been put on limited rations: meat is prohibited one day a week and the making of cakes and pastry has been stopped. Further rest rictions`aree anticipated. Bread has gone to 28c per four -pound loaf in Eng- land, for the first time since the Crimean War. Lord Devonport, British Food Comptroller, pro- poses taking authority to search the houses of Great Britain to prevent food hoarding. Forty million men, less the casualties, are now on active service. Twenty million men and women are supporting them by service in other war activities. In the last analysis, the land is bearing this burden. One million tons of food -carrying ships have been torpedoed since February 1st, 1917. Germany's hope for victory is in the starvation of Britain through the submarine. Canada's sons will have died in vain if hunger compels the Motherland's surrender. The land is waiting—the plough is ready—will we make the plough mightier than the sword? Will we help the acres to save the flag? WorldeIHunger Stares Us in the Face David Lubin, representative of the United States to the International Institute of Agriculture—maintained by forty Governments—reports officially to Washington that the food grains of the world on March 3 i st, 191 7, showed a shortage of 150,000,000 bushels below the amount necessary to feed the world until August, 1917. He declares it is beyond question that unless a greater acreage is put to crop in 1917 there will be WORLD -HUNGER before the 1918 crop is harvested. The failure of the grain crop in the Argentine Republic, which is ordinarily a great grain_exporting nation, resulted in an embargo being placed, in March, 1917, upon the export of grains from that country to avert local famine, The United States Department of Agriculture, in its official report, announces the condition of the fall wheat crop (which is two-thirds of their total wheat crop) on April 1st, 1017, to be the poorest ever recorded and predicts a yield of 2-14,000,000 bushels below the crop of 1915. The 1916 crop was poor. Even with favorable weather, the wheat crop of the United States is likely to be the smallest in thirty-five years, not more than 64% of the normal crop, Under date of April loth, Ogden Armour, executive head or Armour a, Company, one of the world's largest dealers in food products, stated that unless the United States wishes to walk deliberately into a catastrophe, the best brains of the country, under Government supervision, must immediately devise means of increasing and conserving food supplies. Armour urged the cultivation of every available acre. The food shortage, he said, is world-wide. European production is cut in half, the Argentine Republic has suffered droughts. Canada and the United States must wake up! m Hunger Tightening ibis Grip —New York 14vening Mas People are starving to -day in 13elgium, in Serbia, in Poland, in Armenia, in many quarters of the globe, Famine Conditions are becoming more wide -spread every day. On these alarming food conditions Becoming known, President Wilson immediately appointed a Food Comptroller for the United States. Ile selected Herbert C. Hoover, to whom the world is indebted as Chairman of the International Belgium Relief Commission for his personal direction of the distribution of food among the starving Belgians, Mr, Hoover is already urging sacrifice and• food restric- tions, for, as he slates, "The war will probably last another vear and we shall have all we can do to supply the necessary food to carry our Allies through with their full fighting stamina," pie Proem °itw: - Ontario 11 T'he land under cultivation in Ontario in 1916 was 365,000 aures less than in 1915. Consider how much LESS Ontario produced in 1916 than she raised in 1915 : Year acres Y.oabele Fa11 Wheat 1916 704,807 1.1,942,050 1915 811,185 24,737,011 Barley and oats . . . 1916 529,886 12,388,969 " , .. , 1915 552,318 19,893,129 Peas and Beans . . . 1916 95,542 1,243,979 . , 1915 126,943 2,043,049 Corn 1916 258,332 12,717,072 1915 309,773 21,760,496. Potatoes and Carrots . , 1916 139,023 7,408,429 1915 173,984 18,267,023 hfanget-Ww'zels 1916 and Turnlpe . . , . 1915 .12,793 50,799 9,756,016 25,356,323 1919 Ul•:C'lif':ASE Acres Bushels 105,315 9,794,981 24,432 7,504,164 31,401 51,441 34,411 8,006 Other crops show as critical decline. Reports from Ontario on the condition of fall 1917 are decidedly discouraging. As there is an average of not more than one man on each hundred acres of farm land in Ontario, the prospects indicate even a still smaller acreage under cultivation in 1917 unless extra labor is supplied. 799,070 9,043,x►' 4 5,858,594 15,600,308 wheat for —Photo from Louden (Eng,l aystander, A 15 -year cold Girl at Work Miss Alexandra Sirlith, one of the thousands of British women workers on the land. She recently won an Ali -Comers' Cham- pion prize for plowing. Food Production is the Greatest Problem the World Faces To -day Owing to destruction by submarines, ocean ships are scarce. It is much easier to protect shipping between Canada and England than on the longer voyages from India or Australia. One vessel can make twice as many trips from Canada to Britain as from India, and four times as many as from Australia, Therefore, every ton of food stuffs grown in Canada is ' worth to the Motherland two tons grown in India or four tons grown in Australia. Why the Call to Canada is So Urgent If this country does not raise a big crop this year, not only will the people of Canada suffer but the Motherland and her Allies will suffer and their military power will be weakened if not paralyzed. Therefore, the right solution of the present war problem comes back to the farm, as to a foundation upon which our whole national and international structure must be built and maintained. The Second., Line Trenches --9Yr<'ur in The New York A mm'iamit, The farmers know that they are the last reserve, and that the soil on which crops are grown is the strategic ground on which wars are decided. To their care is entrusted the base of supplies. To enable the farrn to do the work two factors are essen- tial. 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 csdti- vate and harvest an unusual crop after they have raised it. If they are to do the work that is essential for them to do, the last moan in each city, town and village must be mobilized at once. Every man not on Active Service can help. In every city, town and village are men who, by their training on the farm, or by their present occupation, can readily adapt themselves to farm work. These can render no greater service to the Em- pire at the present time than by answering the call of the farm. Capable men and boys willing to learn should not allow their lack of farm experience to stand in the way. Can the employer render a more signal service in this crisis than by encouraging these men to help the farmer to cultivate every available acre, and by making it easy for them to go? Ontario's farm lands are waiting—the implements are ready—the equipment is complete—the farmer is willing—all. he needs is labor. So short is the world's food supply that without increased' production many in Canada must go hungry, and even with. enormously increased production we cannot expect cheap food. The world is waiting for our harvest. if peace should be declared within a year, the food con- ditions- will be no better, for the accumulated hunger of the Central Empires must be met. This will absorb a large part of the world's supply. We do not know when this war shall cease. It is endless— its lengthening out has paralyzed the thought and conception of all men who thought about it and its possible time of con- clusion. Three months—six months, we said; nine months, a year, we said; and yet two years and eight months have passed their long dreary and sanguinary length and there is no man who can tell how long this gigantic struggle may yet last, Lloyd George, in a letter addressed to farmers throughout the Empire, said t " The line which the British Empire holds "against the Germans is held by those who WORK "ON TJ9E LAND as well as by those who fight "on land and sea. If it breaks at any point • it "breaks everywhere. !n the face of the enemy the "seamen of our Royal naval and mercantile marine "and the soldiers gathered from every part of our "Empire hold our line firstly. You workers on land "must hold your part of our line as strongly. Every "full day's labor you do helps to shorten the strug- gle and brings us nearer victory. Every idle day, "all loitering, lengthens the struggle and makes de- feat more possible. Therefore, in the nation's "honour, heed! Acquit youlvtelves like men, and as "workers on land do your duty with all your "strength 1" So, for the honor of Canada's soldiers in France—and for the glory of our New-born Nationhood—let it be said of Ontario's citizens that, in the hour of our greatest need, their response was worthy of their sons. We owe a great debt to those who are fighting for us. Organization of Resources Committee, Parliament Buildings, Toronto. Chairman: His Honour, Sir John S. Hendrie, I .C.M,CI., C.V.O., Lieutenant -Governor of Ontario; Vice -Chairmen; Honourable Sir Wu - nam H. Hearst, M.C.M.G., Prime Minfeter of Ontario; N. W. Rowell, Esq., ltd., Loader of the Opposition, Secretary; Albert H. Abbott. Esq., Ph.D.