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^BBBmBmaBssBSfsm Til£ FLESH ERTON ADVANCB >V'rSb Â¥9i ". â€" _-4p li- r N % . V. Lack of Food â€" threatens tbe Batile Line ONTARIO "The food wanted by mankind does not exist. The word 'shortage* is not strong enough. The whole world !â-  up against a nasty .hing, familiar to the people o f India, called 'fam- ine." --Lord Rhondda, Britain's Food Controller. 'One year ago, only the enemy was on rations. To-day, Great Britain, France and Italy are on rations. To-day, Germany controls the nlieat lands of Ronmania, Russia, Poland and Ukrania. 'i'o-day, the shadows of inuiger, f.imiiie. disease and death hang over tlie .Mlies. Upon the 1918 crop from Canada .nnd the United States depends the fa(e of the democratic peoples of the world. If that crop is snfTicicnt 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 Flanders Must Not Want Do you realize what a German peace would mean to Canada? Germany covets onr natural re- sources â€" our aj,M-icnltiiral and niin- rral vvcallli. nnr forests, our fisheries, everything that is Canada's. Germany won't he satisfied with F.iiropcan trrritnrv. with teeming masses, wrangling factions and de- pleted nalnrni rcsoiu-ces. She wants colonies â€" big, thinly-popidate<l coun- tries in tem()orafo /-ones for her sons and (hiuRlitcrs to go to propagate their kind. The Kaiser would sacrifice millions of Germans tomorrow if he tliouglit that hv so doing he conM set foot on Canada's shorts as Confineror. And what's more, the Germans would offer themselves fur the sacri- fice, SQ'^grcat is their subjection to the njpKtary ideal. The only thing that li.ilLs German ambition i.-; that b.-;iile line fri'Mi the NprtU Sea to Switzt rlandâ€" and the liritisji .\'avy. The Only Thing That Sus- tains Our Men an Land and Sea â€" is Food Wiiat are we, each one of us, pre- pared to do to insure that Food supply ? Germany, by her submarine cam- paign, has seen that great .^rmada, the r?ritish Mercantile M;irine, shrink in volume. Germany has seen South America, 'Australia, New Zealand. India and far away outposts of the Empire practically cut off from snp|)lying food to the IMolherland because of the lack fif shi()s. Forty million Allied men and women having been put on warwork, food production has dangerously de- creased in Europe. These forty million consume more food than when they were in oidi- nary occupations, nnd thei^ are fewer men for farming. Hence an increased demand and decreased sup- plies. 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 ship- ping. â- The world's decrease in live stock, as compared to 1913, is approximate- ly 115,000,000 head. bone, are proudly paying the price and sharing with France and Italy their lim- ited stock of food. For in this there is mighty pride, a conscious measuring of their ».â-  iry with the best traditions of aiicici.i Sparta, and of Imperial Rome, for Britons know that upon them rests the btirdei) of saving humanity. The story of their service shall ring and echo for- ever along the hilltops of history. Herbert Hoover Says: To Send More Food to Our Allies is Not Charity "Our l^uropean .Mlies are dcpciulciit upon us for jjrcatcr quantities of food than wc have ever before exported. They are the first line of our defence. Our money, our sliips, our life blood, and not least of all, OUR FOOD supplj\ must be of a common stock. "In pre-w.ir times, Britain. France, Italy and I'elKitini vearlv imported more than 75U,(XX).(XX> bushels of Rrain, plus vast <|uantities ttt meats and fats. "The submarine destruction of shipping has made it necessary to abandftn the hope of bringing food from South Amer- ica, Australasia and India. "I'ooiiinust, tiiere- fore, be shipped from Canada and the â-  United States â€" the neares' and safest route. " â- Canadian and United States sup- plies are normally .»JO,(K)0,000 bushels short of the Allied needs. I!y 'greater prodnctiiin and con- servation Canada and t li e L'nited States must combine to increase the ex- port of Krain l>v 15(MXX),(«10 Ini.'^hels.' " The remaininj; shortase of 20U,(X)O. l!)() bushel.s must be overcome by (greater ' reduction in con sumption in the al- lied countries. And this is Ileitis done by Hritaiii. I'rance and Italy ratiiiiiiin; lu-r ptoplc. "I'mm twii and a half years of contact with the German Army 1 have come out of tlic horrur with the complete conviction ll;at auto- cracy is a political faith and a s.vstcm that directly eiidan- .i^ers and je':i)ardizes the future <ii nur race â€" that threatens our \ery independence. It has, however, been abU' to com- iTi.Tnd complete in- spiration ui devotion a II d self - sacrilice in its p,\opIe to the interest^ of their na- tion. 'Fhe German fanner, in the name of the Fatherland, ^upports a nation two- thirds as laryc as the United Slates and threatens to .subject the world fron\ an area oiu: half the size of Ontario. 1 "My vision of VS'ar is not of an aca- demic problem to be solved by discussion. l"u me it is a visioi\ of brave, dyiiiK men and sufferiuK women and children, for .service on whose belialf the greater exer- tion of the .Allies' farmers comes in a <Hrect necessity and a direct plea. The C'anadiiOi and the United States citizen who sees war as I sec it needs no in- ducement and no inspiration but tl;e thought that every s|iadc full of earth turned and every animal reared is Ics- scninp^human sutterinj; and guaranteeing the liberty of the woi^d." The heart of this prohlem is labour. Without more farm labour more food cannot be produced. If you really want to serve your Country in a big, practical way, rejiister now for farm labour, or urge and assist your male employees to do so. It is war. The .Mlies have a right to demand it. They have a right to resent the offer of only what is "left over." Tliose whc) are lighting the common battle for civilization and for our protec- tion have a higher claim than had Laz- arus, to only the "crumbs that fall from the rich man's table." ' The Canadian people must recognize that our .Mlies have the first claim on our food supplies. As the shipping situation makes the Allies dependent upon the .North .\ineri- can continent for food, it is vitally neces- .sary that Canada should increase her pro- duction of food in order to take a larger part in providing for the .Mlies' re(|uire- ments. This is es- pecially urgent as the maintenance of a larjje United States Army in the Pluro- pian I'leld will cause a verj- heavy drain on that country's re- sources. There must he no peace wiihout vic- tory. I'or nearly four years ('lermany has been s t r usuling against the powers of law and order. She bas failed so far to ni;ike ,!;oocl her es- cape with her booty liy .Miperior strcn.irtli and skill. .\nd now she is attcmptiuK by intrigue, su.srgestion, device and propa- ganda 10 divert the attention of her an- tagonists from the struK'sle itself, and thus to nain her ciuls by relaxing the strength ami skill of her antagonists. What she can gain from tlic.->e tactics is plain to all the wiirld in the sorrowful ex- perience of Russia. (lerniany's m o s t dangerous weapon is not her /cppelin â€" that is obsolete. \ot her subinarir.e â€" that can be overcome. * ot her machine like army â€" that has been repeatedly hurl e d back by the living armies of freemen. Her most dangerous weapon is her prop- aganda of peace, lands she murders and voice she invites to While with her dcsi)oils, with her parleys. When Liberty is in Peril There is Threat of Lasting Disaster in the Very Word "Peace Lloyd George's Warning "I fear the disciplined people behind the German Army, the rationed family and the determination of wife and sister and daughter and mother to stand and starve â€" so tha.t their fighting men may be fed â€" I fear it more than the Imperial German Army itself." Rritain is now on Food Rations. I'rance is now on Food Rations. Italy is un the verge of starvation. Only continuous support from us can enable us to hold out. Only with a disciplined people behind ran wc liopefS win. The rationed British Nation, blood of our blood, bone of our Lord L,cverliulmc, long known in Can- ada as Sir William I, ever, who knows well the uerman mind, in a recent inter- view .stated: "You will never be able to dictate terms to Germany till she is beaten. The argument you mention is founded on the dangerous fallacy that because Germany is sick of this war she is aick 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 brig- and, Hertling. Is there any sign of re- pentance in that .speech? Is it a chas- tened speech? Is it the speech of a statesman who wants disarmament and a league of nations? No! 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 to her she HAS won it. Why, it would be better a thousand times that every man in England should be dead than that Germany should issue from this war with the feeling of a conqueror. You heai- people use the phrase, 'to the last man, and the last shiUing.' and yoa think it is only a bit of rhetoric, but to my mind it's the most solemn and abso- lute truth. I mean when I say it that it would in very truth be a million times better for the people of these islands to be dead, every one of them, rather than live on as the serfs of a triumphant Prussia." How can any lover of liberty remain insensible to this peril? Food means Victory and the world made safe for democracy â€" Lack of food means disaster and sutr- jugation to Germany. The Citizens of Ontario Must Lead This Mighty Crusade for Greater Food Production They did it last year and will <lo it again. .^s the greatest food-producing Prov- ince, Ontario must maintain her leader- ship in .\merica. Great are our oppor- tunities â€" our responsibility is tremen- dous. Upon every man and woman, boy and girl, rests a personal obligation to serve, livery pound of food produced, in what- ever form, is a contribution to the Cause of I'reedom. (•ntari« farmers should sow 50(),(K)0- acres of spring v iieat. I'.very Ontario farmer whose land is at all suitable should put an extra lUe acres into wheat, even at the expense of another crop. What YOU Can Do To Help .•\t all costs production must be main- tained. That's why farmers and fanners' sons are being exeJiipted from military service. Working on a farm is equivalent to ser- vice in the Second f.ine Trenches, To enal'.lc the farm to do the work two- factors are essential. The first is Time. W hatever 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 unusual crop after tliey bad raised it. The burden is not one to be placed solely iip.iiii tbe farmer. Neither can it be place<l upon the townsman. It is a personal obligation upoiT every man, woman, boy and .girl, in every farm, town and city home in the Province of OntMuo. .\\^\V WITH CRITICISM -CO- OI^blKA'PH! .Mr. City Man, don't say that ilie fanner should do so and-sn. .-md thus allow criticism in this hour of our Nation's peril to cripple your elTort. Mr. I'arnier, don't hastily underesti- mate the value the city man can be to you. GET TCTGETHER IN THE FIGHT FOR LIBERTY I,et lis lujt lamoiit what .MIGHT be, but earnestly face what MUST lie. b'ifteeii Thousand boys between the a.ures of fifteen and nineteen must be or- ganized as "Soldiers of the Soil" to work on Ontario farms this season. Farmers tMii get one or more of these boys by applyiiig to the District KeiJre- sentatives or to the I'ublic Ivmployment Bureaux at Tnr(>ntn. Ottawa. lIainiIto:i or London. I nmarriid men, exeir.pted from mili- tary scr-.:ce. are urged U> take u;) farm work. .Married men who have b.i I v>re- vious experience uu i\ iarni are urged to resume farm work for a season. Fni- idoyers of labor are asked to assist men to take up farm work. We urge the fanner and the towns- men to get lo.gelher for greater proiir.c tion in the ir.tcrcsts oi a free people and democracy. Let tlie I '-•.•aniz;ition of fvesourccs Committee, vi'iir Histrict Representatives of the I'uMic Fmployment lUircaux act as vour intermediaries. When wc bav« done our best, the cry for food cannot be wholly met. For the rest â€" dtir .-Mlies arc tightening; t^ieir belts Organization of Resources Committee Parlutment Building*, Toronto, Odt, CH.\IRM.\.\": Mis Honor Sir John S. njlcndrie.. K.CM.Oi., C.V.O., I.ieuttiant- Governor of Ontario. VICKCil.MR- Mb;\: Honorable Sir William M. Ilcar^^t, K t.'.M.(i., I'riine Minister of Ontario; \\ illiam Froudfoot. b'sc]., K.C., LeasUr of the Oi'position. Sl'.CRFT.MiY: Albert H. Abbott, P.-.q.. I'h.D. The only thin^ that balks German ambition is the Rattle Line in France and â€" tbe British Navy Tbe only thind that sustains our men on land and sea is Food J ^ i\ t) MM^'- ^^m^ '^m^mm^mmmm^ft