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-- fs ; % 7 choice of our government and the question very naturally arises, are they capable. of the task? And will it be to the bettering of this Great Empire whose privilege it is for you and I to belong? Just let us stay for a moment and reflect on what a glorious part woman has played in this awful and most gigantic struggle now waging across the mighty At- lantic in Europe. Shall we ever for- get when that British transport was torpedoed in the Aegean Sea, a small band of nurses refused to avail them- selves of the marine law, that gives woman precedence in a wreck to es- cape, but stood back and said; 'Let ly through the saloon; and if women > do naught else but banish this skele- ton from the cupboard, they have ren- dered to the world at large, perhaps the greatest service possible. t Oh, yes, anonymous, from Millbank, \f cannot believe that you, yourself verily believe those verses. You haye put into rhythmic measure what you know to be unjust and cruel. Yes, 'methinks when history records its deeds\a woman's heart and a woman's sacrifice will be emblazoned on ite pages, to be handed down acon after | aeon until this world is no more. Yours faithfully, * Wm. Green. to a hand in guiding it. as IT heard a remark a short while ago made by a man who deems himself, I justly suppose, a good Christian and a good churchman; if women get the ballot, temperance is here to stay. He might as well have saidhe was very sorry for it. I read it by his utter- ance, I have seen and I say it with- out the least boast or pride just a little of this globe we inhabit and it 'has been given me to see and study many nationalities and if he had seen what I have seen he would never have made such a foolish remark. I -have seen families in Civilized England bordering on starvation sole- it is false, false and you know it. Let us board the cars at our nearest railway station and visit some of our large industrial centres, there we shall find women and girls clad in the khaki and blue overalls working for your sake and for mine in our the fighting men go first," The sol- diers were needed in the trenches and that gallant little band of nurses calmly went to their death for Old England's cause. This is only one case of the many, many similar ones, I cannot let this occasion pass without mention of Edith Cavell, Oh, yes,'large munition factories day and Edith Cavell, God bless - her. Her night. These gallant bands of work- name will ring with honor until this ers are giving of their best to de- world is no more, who, with unband- feat "Mr." Krupp shoulder to shoul- aged eyes and without a tremor faced;der with their sisters across the foam a firing squad of modern barbarians. in the motherland. Hats off, I say, Yes, this war has had its heroines yes, hats off gentlemen to the ladies as well as heroes. 'of Britain. Yes, and to the fair Can- Oh, anonymous writer, call not ndains also. Surely if they help to the hand of woman feeble after this save a state, they are justly entitled ech te nel a ae a having, read "The Great Be- SS On ; »* by Anon : i On Saturday, April 28th, Mr. John ymaus, of: Milbank Hagarty, of lot 16, concession 9, of oa bay feo ors permission in your : D ns for a brief space. Firstly, the Township of Logan, passed away let me thank our unknown Minbank at the age of eighty-seven years. He was born in Ireland but had lived in Sorrespendent for his excellent verses ne \ and although my views are contrary _ hogan for about sixty-five years ang |to his an hundredfold, I readily admit was considered to be the oldest pio-|there is a smattering of wisdom ip neer of the township. When he came |i2 their contents; and it is on' the to the township but few improve- {Said verses I have taken the liberty ments had been made. The Logan and I may say the audacity to write road had been chopped out but it was |'"A Woman's Saorifice and its After- not for some years after his arrival |™ath," | that a turnpike road was laid, Be-| [t is now only a matter -of time fore this in order to travel, logs had | till women will have a voice in the to be laid across the road in various places in order to get over water Pa _ holes and bogey places. After years of hard labor Mr. Hagarty as out of the dense forest a comfortable home for himself and family, and it was on the splendid homestead farm that he died. He was a man of strong char- aeter, who stood always steadfast for rinciple, and he had many friends, is death is mourned not only by a loving family, but all who came in contact with him in daily life. He is survived by his widow, two sons Mike and John, and two daughters, Mrs. Phelix Regan, of Logan, and Mrs. Glavin, of Biddulph. Mr. Tim- othy Hagarty, of 'Stratford, is a brother, The funeral took place from the family home on Monday morning to St. Bridget's church, where re- quiem high' mass was celebrated by Rey. Father Kelly, After the ser- » Vice the funeral cortege proceeded to Mitchell and the remains were laid te rest in St. Vincent de Paul cem- etery.--Charles A, Robinson, of Logan is one of the latest recruits of the 64th Battery. He was born in 1898, Mr. Lewis Whitfield, of Brussels, Spent Sunday at the home of Mr, G. Hiles. Mr, Whitfield intends leaving this week on a trip to the coast.-- Monkton Methodist Circuit, Sunday, May 6th, Services at Monkton 11.00 a.m., Bethesda 2,30 p.m. and Willow Grove 7.00 pm. Subject; "The Gen- ius of Methodism." The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be given. You ill be weloome.--The Literary eve- -hings conducted each month in con- nection with the League of the Meth- odist church have been very success- ful; but none have been more so _ than the last one, when, in addition _ to the splendid program, a debate of -urgusual interest was given, when Mrs, Doan and Mrs. Golightly upheld the affirmative and Mr. Weber and Mr. Illman the negative. The sub- ject was; "Resolved that women are g entitled to the same privileges as men in every position of life." The affirmative won. We expect to hold another literary evening in May. Plan to be present.--The league and Sunday _ sehool of the Methodist church have been re-orgaized for another year. These two organizations have done splendid work and the numbers at- tending the services are gradually in- creasing and the interest in the work was. never as great as at present. The school meets every Sunday mor- ning at 9.45 and 'the league every Sun- day evening at 7.30.--Messrs. G. Weber and Wm. Hammond went to Guelph on Saturday morning last by train and: landed home in the evening about 6.30 in Gid's new D 60 MoLaughlic ' six cylinder car.--Messrs. John Mc- - Naught and G. Weber waited on the Logan council on Monday last on be- half. of the Monkton Public Library and obtained o grant of $10.--White Deleware seed potatoes for sale at Weber & Bettger's. They have also a quantity. of nice white variety: from Manitoba which should be good for seed.--Mr. Fred Wiesenburg and family have moved into the house they purchased from Mr, C, C, Rock near the C.P.R. station.--Mr. and Mrs. John Mahoney were on Sunday last called upon to mourn the loss by death of their year-old son, The fu- neral took place at Mitchell ceme- tery on Tuesday morning. Mucb sym pathy is felt for the bereaved parents --Mr, W.J. Burnett, of Milverton, marchased from Messrs. Golightty Bros. a Ford car. Mr. Burnett soon learned to manipulate the levers and left for home under his own power. --Mrs. F. Dalling left on Monday for -Foronto to attend the funeral of her sister, Mrs. Robert Harrison (nee Miss Margaret Mothers).--Mrs. Roy Row- -Yand and son, Everton, of Crosshill, are visiting at Mr. A, Holmes'.--Miss Bertie Ronnenberg is spending afew days with friends in Stratford.--Rev. J. D. Fergusson is attending a meet- ing of the London Synod at Brant~- ford this week.--Among the list of wounded soldiers at the front appear the names of several boys from this district, namely; Wilfred and John Paterson, sons of Mr. Peter Paterson; Mr. Emerson Holmes, son of Mr. Jas, Holmes; and Mr. Harvey Tarr, son of Mr. F, Tarr.--Mr. and Mrs. A. Holmes accompanied by Mr. J. Holm- es spent Sunday in Stratford, They were accompanied home by Mrs. Jas. Holmes.--Mrs, A, Harris and son have returned to Monkton after spending a few days with friends in Toronto. +The Men's Patriotic League are ™ making arrangments to hold a big field day in June.--Rev. J. D. Fergu- son on Sunday last read his resigna- tion to his congregation to take ef- fect. in July. -------- LISBON. Mr. Gharles Hohl has perchased a - mew Chevrolet car from the New Ham - burg agent. -. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rehberg spent jast Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Hohl. ; Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Streicher are at present visiting their son, George, "who underwent a successful operation "*at the Stratford hospital and is doing a@ well as can be expected. ~ Rev. O. Stockman, who accepted a ~¢@ail to the Sebastabol Lutheran ghurch, intends leaving for that place ~ about the first of May. - 'Mr. and. Mrs. Henry Clausser, of New Hamburg, visited with the lat- -ter's parents here on Sunday. 'Mr. Hilliard Neumeister: spent the "Baster holidays with his grand par- ents, Mr. and Mrs, Jobst. Neumeister. "wr. and Mrs. George P. Schmidt, of Russelton, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Kneisel. "Mr. and Mrs, Herb Kaufman, of Meliestey, spent Sunday with friends Rére. : ; ' -. ROSTOCK 'ry. Fred Kreuter has purchased a -- car.--Mr. and Mrs. Hector Pi- geon and baby, of Stratford, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. Justus Kreuter.--Mr, Laverne Zulauf left on 'Saturday for Stratford where he has 'secured employment.--Mrs. J. Kreuter has returned home after spending a in Stratford.--Mr. Louis Schneid house was destroyed by fire on 'Sunday afternoon. If the wind had 'been in any other direction but from east the cheese factory would ye been in danger. ' pe . 'How Ontario's potato crop dwindled in the last two years is shown by the 1914 the crop was| 3. 00 bushels} -- Famine and Wor id-Hunger : .,»Are On Our Threshold -- ONTARIO se in the nation's honour, heed! Acquit yourselves like men. 3 As workers on the land, do your duty with all your strength!" --Lioyd George. THE CRISIS France, England and Italy in peace times did not depend upon America but on Russia, Roumania and Slee for most of their breadstuffs. With these 'sources closed the crisis of the hour 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 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- pee taking authority to search the houses of Great ritain 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 Ist, 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. Potatoes and Carrots . . 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? World-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. 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 Ast, ;1917, to be the poorest ever recorded and predicts a yield of 244,000,000 bushels below the crop of 1915. The 1916 crop was poor. Even with favorable weather, the wheat crop of ithe United States is likely to be the smallest in thirty-five 'years, not more than 64% of the normal crop. » Under date of April 10th, Ogden Armour, executive head of Armour & 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! Hunger Tightening ~ His Grip --New York Byening Mail © ARP BALERS Copyrighted by & S. McClure." 'and England than on People are starving to-day in Belgium, in Serbia, in Poland, in Armenia, in many quarters of the globe. Famine conditions are becoming mere wide-spread every day. : On these alarming food conditions President Wilson immediately appointed a Food Comptroller for the United States. He 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 states, "The war will probably last another year and we shall have all we can do to supply the necessary ood tc carry our Allies through with their full fighting stamina." | The Peshion for Gutsnc The land under cultivation in Ontario 365,000 acres less than in 1915. Consider how much LESS Ontario produced in 1916 than she raised in 1915: becoming known, in 1916 was 1916 DECREASE Acres B 105,315 Year Acres Bushels 41946 704,867 14,942,050 4945 841,485 24,787,044 1916 529,886 412,388,969 4915 552,318 19,893,129 Fall Wheat... .. . 9,794,961 oe @ z 2 Barley and Oats?.°. 2. " " 24,432 7,504,160 Peas and Beans . 6 " 41946 1945 95,542 126,943 4,243,979 2,043,049 31,401 799,070 Gord 3.005 Reais os AIG ¥ Beier s aes piace bic ts) 1946 4945 258,332 309,773 139,523 173,934 42,747,072 24,760,496 7,408,429 43,267,023 1916 42,793 9,756,045 4915. 50,799 25,356,323 Other crops show as critical decline. Reports from Ontario on the condition of fall wheat for 4917 are decidedly discouraging. 51,441 9,043,424 " " 34,411 5,858,594 Mangel-Wurzels - and Turnips.. .. 8,006 15,600,308 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. » --Photo from London (Eng.) 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' Cham- pion prize for plowing. Food Production is the Greatest Problem the World Faces To-day Cwing to destruction by submarines, ocean ships are scarce. It is much easier to protect shipping between -Canada 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 en -- 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. ae ~ on which wars are decided. ~~. & > The Second- Line Trenches } --McCay in The New York American. ns "ih hs sy Gi eA i aa Aogytightod by the latornations) News Service, New York. = @ a ~~ The farmers know that they are the last reserve, er that the soil on which crops are grown is the strategic groun 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 them 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 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: "* 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' 'fon land and sea. If it breaks at any point it: "breaks everywhere. In the face of the enemy the: "seamen of our Royal naval and mercantile marine "fand 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. "fall 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 "thonour, heed! Acquit yourselves like men, and as "workers on land do your duty with all your "strength !" 4 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. i We owe a great debt to those who are fighting for us; Organization of Resources Committee, Parliament Buildings, Toronto. iieconien a = eal --_ Chairman: His Honour, Sir John S. Hendrie, K.C.M.G., C.V.0., Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario; Vice-Chairmen: Honourable Sir Wil- liam H. Hearst, K.C.M.G., Prime Minister of Ontario; N. W. Rowell, ae ee Leader of the Opposition; Secretary: Albert H. Abbott, d-, i fe