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~Lord Rhondds, 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 wheat lands of Roumania, Russia, Poland and Ukrania. To-day, the shadows of hunger, 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 Flanders Must Not Want £ . Do you realize what a German peace would mean to Canada? Germany covets our natural fre sources--our agricultural and mia- eral wealth, our forests, our fisheries, Vo everything that is Canada's. Germany won't be satisfied with European territory, with teeming masses, wrangling factions and de- pleted natural resources, She wants colonies--big, thinly-popuilated coun- tries in temperate zones for her sons and daughters to go to propagate their kind. The Kaiser would sacrifice millions of Germans to-morrow if he thought that bv so doing he could set foot on Canada's shores as Conqueror. And what's more, the. Germans would offer themselves for the sacri~ fice, so great is their subjection to the military ideal, The only thing that balks German ambition is that battle line from the North Sea to Switzerland--and the. British Navy, The Only Thing That Sus- tains Our Men on Land : and Sea--is Food What are we, each one of us; pre- pared to do to insuse/that Food supply? ; Germany, by her submarine cam- paign, has seen that great Vadne, the British Mercantile arine Shirk in volume. any has seen South Aerio a ralia, New Zealand, India and "far away outposts of the Empire practically cut off from supplying foodto the Motherland Because of the lack of ships. "5 Forty 'million - Allied meh. and. women having been put on food Sh has dangerously, de- y miltion gone ore A. Anpraset demand int deren : harvest of France was third less in 1917 than 1916, Tend this must be smaller still, ow lack of fertilizers, which be: Supplied through shortage P he world's decrease in Jive stock, ' 'as compared to 1913, Is sppresimate. ty 115,000,000 head. Herbert Hasoer Says oY "Our European Allies are dependent upon. us for greatsi quantities of jood than we have ever before exported. i are the first he of otir defence. x money, our ships, our life blood, and not feast 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. he submarine destruction of shipping has made it necessary to abandon hope of bringing food from South Amer- ica, Australasia and India. "Food must, there- "arus, to o the "crumbs * the rich iS gomang Flex foe a right Lo uly. what is eh ver. l0s¢ WwW are n| ii Common battle for civilization "and for our pro , tion have a Fergmbs thee io t Be man's table." ot The Canadian ple must 1 cognize that bor Allis ave he e first o or As the Allies Jcpendent upon upon the North Ameri- can continent for food, it is vital neces. sary that Canada should increase her pro- duction' of food in order to take a lar part in providing for the Allies' require- ments. This is es- fore, be shipped from Canada and the United States -- the nearest and safest route, "Canadian and United States sup- plies are normally 350,000,000 bushels short of the Allied needs. By gredter production and con- servation Canada and the United States must combine to increase the ex- rt of n 255.5007000 "Drshels. shortese of 200000; orta, 000 bushels must Se overcome by grea tion im ountries, And is being done by 5 tain, France and Italy rationing her people. "From two and a half years of contact with the German Army. | have come out of the horror with the complete conviction that auto- + gracy is a political faith and a system that directly _en gers and jeopavdig the future of our r: : ~that threatens our very independence. It has, however, been able to com- mand complete in- spiration of devotion and self - sacrifice _ farm' la your do so. The heart of this problem is | - Without more. farm labour more food cannot be - If you really want to serve your Country in a big; practical way, Fegister.now for or urge: nd assist L e employees to - Tr pecially urgent as ...~ the maintenance of a *large United States Army in the pean field will cau a very heavy in on that country's re- sources. t sees must he no. without "vies strength and ski her antagonists, What she can gain from these tactics is lain to all the world - in the sorrowful ex- ; ? perience of Russia.' - | © Germany's most dangerous weapon is not het Zeppelin--' "that is obsolete. Not Se her submarine--that . . can . be overcome. Not her machines army--that has repeatedly hurled - Pd back by the living a ; armies . --t free: in its JDeople ta: the . nterest of their na- - . tion, 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 aca- ~--demic problem to be solved-by discussion. To 'me it is a vision of brave (dying men and suffering women and children, for service on whose behalf the greater exer- tion. of the Allies' farmers comes in a direct necessity and a direct plea... The Canadian and the United tes citizen _ who sees war as | see it needs no in- ducement and no inspiration. but the thought that every full of earth nd every an fi fn sening human suffering a guaran ing the, Atberty of the wi ar? his 3 Sa j ~ While with her an 'she murders na g 2 despaile with. her voice, she invites 18 eYl, Sn Det 0 aig ow Liberty is in Peril Threat of Lasting "Disaster in the Very Peace' Whe ~ = ir A greatest tookipeo Tr wd rapt. 0d prom a Pio ipping situation rakes the Crore tunities--our responsibi «Upon very man and wom, boy and girl, rests a personal obligation 4 to serve, Every pound of food produced, in what- "ever form, isa' contribution to the Cause of Freedom. Ontario farmers should sow 500,000 acres of spiing eat, Every ron farmer whose land is. at all suitable should put an extra five acfes into wheat, even at the expense of, another crop. What You Can Do" To Help: 0s A ll os production cat bs mi in America, Great are our oppor~ is dremen-: they fear th ghey "woul a not ge > cult an unusual crop after they had harvest it. The burden is not one fo be placed solely upon the farmer. Neither 'can it be placed upon the townsman. = It is a personal obligation upon every man, woman, boy and girl, in_every fa town and city home in thé Province Qntario. AWAY WITH 'CRITICISM -- _co- OPERATE! Mr. City Man, dort ay that the farmer should do so-and-so thus allow. criticism in this: hour 0g and our ation) s peril to cripple your effort, Mr. Farmer, don't. hastily underesti- te mate the. <value the ity man Jan be to ToEr TodgnEe IN IN THE Lat us not lament what MIGHT vo © but sarnesty fac Jace what MUST Fifte d.. boys a 'the a' nineteen must be or- ages bg Hiteen an ers-of the Soil" to work rr ganized as "