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The Clinton News Record, 1917-05-03, Page 4CIESEYEUP MILL PPE1 NOW From Our Spring Stock m ,mwos a� nzo., 1umissth( Nov Wall Panora n6 nI&1.howing this sort ngis t(1 misg the best we have ever Though we have sold Wall Paper. ter . years; 1 he,,e new •61pring (iuods are 1iy all odds the beet. cg.1:+.^..sxmrsaxraz..x A, T000 ter Telegraph and Ticket Agent. Clinton, Ontario Clinton News -Record !hay yds 1917 Zurich • 1191 and Mrs. la E. Hess of Lpn- don were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. Hess, Sr., one day last week. Louis Jeffrey, foreman of the St. Joseph Tile Yards, expired suddenly on. Tuesday evening of Last week. He had betrn' attending to his duties as usual during the day. He is sur- vived by his wife and .one daughter aid three sons. The funeral took Place on Thursday to the R. C. cem- etery at Drysdale. A CHANCE FOR THOSE GOING WEST )3onreseekers Excur- sions Via C. ;tour-sionsViaC. 1'. R. Homeseekor's Excursion to Western Canada at attractive' Fares each Tuesday until October , 31st, via Canadian Pacific, the Pioneer Route to the West. Particulars from any Canadian Pacific Agent or W. 13. Howard, District Passenger Agent, Toronto, Ont. REAL TRAVEL COMFORT. Spring is here, and patrons of the 'Canadian Northern Railway wi11 find renewed pleasure in the Compart- ment -Library -Observation cars on all Transcontinental trains, which not N. orclyi allow the Passenger to gain the full b'enefit..nf the wonderful scenery along the route, but also to take ad-, vantage of 'the many new cornfort features which have created so much favorable comment among cross. eotultrp travellers. A magazine and library' bureau. ,which contains the latest and most popular . literature ; writing desks with attractive stationary ; a "Trac vcllers' shop" with stock of articles the traveller is likely to forget or ov- erlook in packing up for the trip such as collar buttons, shoe laces, etc., are a few instances while tasty teas, and light refreshments may be ob- tained at a very' small cost. GRAN :'s;TRUNKSYSY M Plan Your Summer Vacation Now Arrange to visit some of the fol- lowing points. AU beauty spots close to nature, Muskoka Lakes Cleoritsn Bay -"%tT.pmagami Alkonquin_Park Lake of Bays • Kawartha Lances. • Pall information and descriptive literature may he secured on applica tion to C, 311. Horning, .D.P.A. Toronto, Ont. J. RANSFORD se(. SON, Phone Wle WE'LL PLEASED Joe Memnon, Bello River; 'Ontario, says : "I' used 'Homestead Bone Black )i er- tilizer last Spring on ,my, potatoes, and am so wellpleased that 3 must write .you about same. 3, made a thorough test; with two bushels of seed potatoes. Tliey produced forty bushels arid where 1 did nth fertilize they were a failure." ' THREE TIMES 'tHill PROP Clarence .Ralf, Orwell, Ontario, says: "I bought some Homestead Bono Black Fertilizer from Charles Millard, and used it on part of my onions, Where 1 used it, I had three times the cro15' 3 had where there was no 3+'ertilizet. My corn was the same;"" Write Michigan an Carbon Works, De- frlot, for free book and partleiilats. about their Homestead Bello Inhale Fertilizer, • w. iVI S 0 ff in the nation's honour, heed! Acquit yourselves like men. (4c�R"n -, As workers on the land, do your ?T414 0daety with all your strength!" ONTARIO —Lloyd George. is France, England and Italy in peace times did not depend upon America but on Russia, Roumania and Bulgaria for most ;of their .lireadstuffs. .With these sources closed the crisis of thehour, 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 _malting of cakes and pastry has been stopped: -Further .restrictions are 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 lst, 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. Tile 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? LWorld-Hunger 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 31st, 1917, showed a shortage of 150,000,000 bushels below the amount necessary to feed the world until August, 1917. 1 -le declares it is beyond quebtion 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 embargobeing placed, in March, 9917, 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, 1917,.to be the poorest ever recorded and predicts a yield of 244,000,000 bushels below the crop of 1915. The 19.16 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 of Arinoiu & 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, Bust 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 l Ceq,l b,ad by M. S, McClung, • Hunger Tightening His Grip —Now Yorl: ICvenlog riell • People are starving to -day. in Belgium, 01 Serbia, in Poland, in Armenia, in many quarters of the globe. Famine conditions are becoming more wide -spread 'every day. On these alarming food .coOitions becoming known, President Wilson immediately appointed a Food Comptroller for the United States. He .selected Herbert C, Hoover, to • Whom the world is indebted as Chiiir tan 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 states, "The war will probably last another year and we shall :linve all we can do to supply the necessary food tr. - carry our Allies through with their full lighting stamina." TheProblem f r t•tario 1 The land tinder cultivation in Ontario . in 1916 was 365,000 acres less than in 1915. Consider how much LESS Ontario produced in 1915 than she raised in 1915: 191U ))ECRJIASE Aoic9 Bushels 195,315 9,794,961 1916 24,432 7,504,160 31,401 799,070 51,441 9,043,424 34,411 5,858,594 8,006 15,600,308 Iemr Pall Wheat 1916 .........915 I3arley and Oats Acres. 701,867 811,185 Bustle's 1!',912,050 21,737,011 1913 529,886 552,318 12,388,009 19,893420 Peas and Beans . , 1916 95,512 1,213,970 1.915 126,913 2,013,019 Corn 1916 258,332 12,717,072 1015 309,773 21,700,406 Potatoes and Carrots . 1916 139,523 7,608,129 " • , . 1915 173,931 13,267,02:1 Mangel-Wu rgels 1910 112,703 0,750;015 and Turnips , ,. . 1913 50,799 25,356,323 Other crops show as critical decline. Reports from Ontario on the condition of fall wheat for 1917 are decidedly discouraging. As there is an average of not more than one marl 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. —Photo from London (End.) -Bystander. A 15 -year Old Girl at Work Miss Alexandra Smith, one of the thousands of British women workers on the land. She recently won an.All-Comers' Chain - 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 tines as many as from Australia. Therefore, every ton offood 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 \vitt the people of Canada suffer but the Motherland and her Allies will suffer and their military power will he 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 mustbe built and maintained. .111111' 'ii�SA t 9l�ir t,{.tltdPiraSriul! cay.,lrl¢go-a b, ILa,ukrnatluum New, &,,I,,. /My ro.k. ••- t0 The Second- Line Trenches .-4,•cay ill The new York American. ` • The farmers know :that they lire the last reserve, and 'T 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 farm 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 culti- vate and harvest an unusual crop after they have raised it. If they are to do the work that is essential for there to do, the last man 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 theme+--4, 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: • " The' line which the British Empire holds "against the Germans is held by those who WORK "ON THE LAND as well as by those who fight "on land and sea. IF it breaks at any. point it "breaks everywhere. In the face of the enemy the "seamenof 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 yourselves like men, and as "workers on land do your duty . with all your "strength !" • 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, I•Iondrie, Ii.0.111,C4„ Lieutenant -Governor or Ontario; 'Vico-Chairmen: Honourable Sir wit- llam H. Hearst, Lt,0,M.(5., Prime Minister of Ontario; N. W. !towel! )lstt, 13.C., Leader of the Opposition; Secretary: Albert H. Abbott Msg., Pill), • .eg ANL Alit Mrs. 13. Meguarrie has hien visit:' ing her daughter, Mrs. Babb al Tees - water. Mrs. McNeil of Sarnia has been visiting lice parents, Mr, and Mrs, Jos, Stotlters. Dr. and 1VIrs. Allison of Landon visited friends ht town recently, Mrs. A. 91, Carr was in Milton last weals attending the funeral of is COtiSiil, Mtn. John 1431116 has returned hotno after a visit with her (laugh-, to, Mrs. (Rev.) 'Ciysdate of Salem. W Ingham Mr. and Mrs, Clre or - of London g y aro ueats for a few days recently itis the lady's parents, yMr, and -• a of town. ],s. F. Buchanan tOWn. l E1 , Mr.. Samuel 1.!!`311 Sad 'lis ,two. nn have: enc to il'amilton . whore s g ley have secured positions kir: the inimer season. . week...for Miss L. ltar•3ior left last week.*£or, . .to ttaWa to lasumc bar walk an in. _ Dar- gLapher 'dying elle fi0hS101L-O£ pax _ .,_:_,. . cele for mfr. John Reid left last week Greene, Sask., whop lie will apond lie suintnor with his daughter. t g • i �` recentlyto .IMLs, Coltiim returned . her hone at Cliarlbtte, Mieh,' atter s i • , a visit With her daughter, Mrs. i4,il- .. - !turd, here, Mrs. Hilliard mom- petted' her Noma tar a shaft visit, r er • i : Pres. rtbheLt and Samuel flames of tile lOeth battalion,. Winnipeg, visit- r 1-iainhiS ed their mother, Mrs. Arthur .i. - of town, last Week Prier theft go a . . .._ Mg bVCYSCaS. 'Virg, HOMO alas three .:..ca„, .., t,,.: .,......,,e,,,, ,...t 4.1,,, V .,wn)*'i Wolter Main with the Iiurons, naw Wolt garm: Ip: France. Mrs, A. G. McDonald of Goderieh vision lief sister, and other relatives g here Hist week before leaving for -t` n t 5ask, swift Cur10 t, , Pta. WallacetVallaeo t eliesen son of Mrs., Wm. �iitaieson of town, died of - Fronde, the news reaellio woun(is in l 1aU , .. � his another last week. This is the second son Mrs, Alteheson hos given a to • �' la.` c1., fo the rrinpiro, kite. Laeltl n tb,lt t � n Draneo OSbn !laving died (1f wounds i ,,. tend. Cf1I1 h.,,fhar vim .- in with the Canadian 1633!18 in England. Miss Olive Cruiolcshanks, of the teaching start of the Manitoba Agri- cultural College, Winnipeg, is home on a vacation to the parental home in Turnberr , y Mrs: P. Davidson has returned to her home in Parlctlalo after a' visit with Mis. W. J. Maines, .. Mr. R.` S; Wilttatus, manager of the 13an11 of 'Conitneroc, 1s taking a fort- . ' li 'ta; mid is beiti relieved. night's hb11< ys. g, by'. . S. Williams of the Heath 14'[1 r)ni,, _ wreifiMMOinsrair naa i'" Blyth 1 �y'�`e "` tagro' The .engine in alto saw mill was 80 badly injured by the bursting 01 the fly -Wheel last week that a hew ono Mad to he procured, One Wad shipped from Wiarton and is now installed. Miss Edith Money of Stratford visited fora few dive recently With , , - , •hlci nal 01 hb1 sister, Miss Money, pl. 1 the Public Soltobl. Miss Alberta Stothers lett last , week to take' charge of a school at CtuarnSev. Sasir, • .eg ANL Alit Mrs. 13. Meguarrie has hien visit:' ing her daughter, Mrs. Babb al Tees - water. Mrs. McNeil of Sarnia has been visiting lice parents, Mr, and Mrs, Jos, Stotlters. Dr. and 1VIrs. Allison of Landon visited friends ht town recently, Mrs. A. 91, Carr was in Milton last weals attending the funeral of is COtiSiil, Mtn. John 1431116 has returned hotno after a visit with her (laugh-, to, Mrs. (Rev.) 'Ciysdate of Salem.