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One year ago, only the ecnemy was on rations. Toâ€"day. the shadows of, hunger, famine. disease and death hang over the Allies. If that crop is suffic can be fed. Upon the 1918 crop from Canada anid the United States depends the fate of the democratic peoples of the world. If that crop is not sufficient the Allies may have to accept a German peace. Germany won‘t be satisfied with European territory. with teeming masses, wrangling factions and deâ€" pleted natural resources. She wants c~loniesâ€"big, thinlyâ€"populated counâ€" tries in temperate zones {for her sons nnd (dauchters to go to propagate their kind. Toâ€"day., Germany controls the wheat d4andsâ€"of Roumania, Russia, Poland and Ukrania. Do you realize what a German peace would mean to Canada? Toâ€"day, Great Britain, France and Italy are on rations. Germany covets our natural reâ€" sourcesâ€"our agricultural and minâ€" cral wealth, our forests, our fisheries, ecverything that is Canada‘s. The NKaiser would sacrifice millions of Germars toâ€"morrow if he thought that hy so doing he could set foot on Canada‘s shores as Conqueror. And what‘s more, the Germans would offer themselves for the sacriâ€" fice, so great is their subjection to the military ideal. The only.thing that balks CGerman ambition is that battle line from. the North Sea to Switzerlandâ€"and the British Navy. Germany, by her submarine camâ€" paign, has seen that great Armada, the C British _ Mercantileâ€" Marine, shrink in volume. Germany has seen South America, Australia, New Zealand. India and fair away outposts of the Empire practically cut off from supplying food to the Motherland because of the lack of ships. Foriy million Allied men and women liaving been put on warwork, food production has dangerously deâ€" creased in Europe. What pared supply ? These forty million consume more food than when they were in ordi|â€" nary OoCccup. fewoer mon 5 T ‘kat Battleâ€"Line in F rance and Flanders M ust Not W ant The Only Thing T hat Susâ€" tains Our Men on Land and Seaâ€"is Food â€"â€"Lord Rhoncdda,. L@E{ of E@@fimthwafi@m é:gfae éfige Efim are we, each one of us, preâ€" + do to insure that Food ations, and there are for farming@. Hence an The only thing that Britain‘s Food Controller. 4 "The food wanted ty f’ mankind does not exist. The word ‘shortage‘ is not strong enough. The whole world is J up against a nasty king, familiar to the people o f India, called ‘{amâ€" ine." icnat the Allies that balks German ambition is the B The only thing that sustains our men The harvest of France was oneâ€" third less in 1917 than 1916, and this year must be smaller still, owing to lack of fertilizers, which cannot be Qupphcd through shortage of shipâ€" pn‘lg‘. increased demand and decreased supâ€" The world‘s decrease in live stock, as compared to 1913, is approxiinateâ€" ly 115,000,000 head. pl iAC_S. "Our European Allics are dependent upon us for greater quantities of food than we have ever before exported. They are the first line of our defence. Our money, our ships, our life blood, and not least of all, OUR FOOD supply, must be of a common stock. "In preâ€"war times, Britain, France. Italy and Belgium yearly imported more than 750,000,000 bushels of grain, plus vast quantities of meats and fats. | ho than in t al y in nndhs ce onl Wl c n1 1 PeC "The submarine destruction of shipping has made it necessary to abandon the hope of bringing food from South Amerâ€" ica, Australasia and India, "Food must, therceâ€" fore, be â€" shipped from Canada and the United States â€" the nearest andâ€" safest route. "Canadian _ a n d United States supâ€" plics are normally 330,000,000 _ bushels short of the Allied needs. By greater production and conâ€" servation C a n a d a a nd‘ the United States must combine to increase the exâ€" port ~ of. grain by 130,000,0060 bushels. " The â€" remaining shortage of 200,000,â€" 000 bushels must be overcome by greater reduction in conâ€" sumption in the alâ€" lied countries. And this is being done by Britin, France and Italy rationing her people. "From two and a half years of contact with _the German Army I have come out of the horror with the complete conviction that autoâ€" cracy is a political faith and a system that directly endanâ€" gers and jeopardizes the future of our race â€"that threatens our very â€" independence. It has, however, been able to comâ€" nand complete inâ€" spiration of devotion a n d_â€" _ self â€" sacrifice in its people to the interest of their naâ€" vount practi registe farm | or your | emplo do so tion.. The German farmer, in the name of the Fatherland, supports a nation twoâ€" thirds as large as the United States and threatens to subject the world from an area oneâ€"half the size of QOntario. "My vision of War is not of an acaâ€" 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 behalif the greater exerâ€" tion of the Allies‘ farmers comes in a direct necessity and a direct plea. The Canadian and the United States citizen who sees war as I see it needs no inâ€" ducement and no inspiration but the thought that every spade full of earth turncd and every animal reared is lesâ€" c.enmg human suffering and guaranteeing the liberty of the world." Lloyd George‘s W arning ' "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 starveâ€"so that their fighting men may be fedâ€"I fear it more than the Imperial German Army itself." Britain is now on Food Rations. Trance is now on Food Rations. Italy is on the verge of starvation. Only continuous support from us can enahble us to hold out. + Only with a disciplined people behind can we hope to win. The rationed British Nation, blood of our bloed, bone of our Herbert Hcover Says: The heart of this problem is labour. Without more f2rm labour more food cannot be produced. If you really want to serve your Country in a big, practical way, register now for farm labour, or urgde and assist your male employees to do so. is the Battle Line in France andâ€"the British Navy aur men on land and sea is Food bone, are proudly paying the price and sharing with France and Italy their lim«â€" ited stock of food. For in this there is mighty pride, a conscious measuring of their glory with the best traditions of ancient Sparta, and of Tmperial Rome, for ritons know that upon them rests the burden of saving humanity.. The story of their service shall ring and echo forâ€" ever along the hilltops ot history. As the shipping situation makes the Allies dependent upon the North Ameriâ€" can cofntinent for food, it is vitally necesâ€" sary that Canada should increase her proâ€" duction of food in order to take a larger part in providing for the Allies‘ requireâ€" ments. ‘This is esâ€" pecially urgent as the maintenance of a large United States Army in the Euroâ€" pean field will cause a very heavy drain on that country‘s reâ€" sources. It is war.. The Allie® have a right to demand it They have a right to resent the offer of only what is over." Those who are fighting the common battle for civilization and for our protecâ€" tion have a higher claim than had Lazâ€" artus, to only the "crumbs ‘that fall from the rich man‘s table." The Canadian peopnle must recognize that our Allies have the first claim on our food supplies. While with her hands s despoils, with her voice parleys. Lord Leverhulme, long known in Canâ€" ada as Sir W nlham Lever, who knows well the mind, in a recent interâ€" view stated: o PE EoC "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 Gerimany is sick of this war she is sick 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 brigâ€" and, Hertling. Is there any sign of reâ€" pentance in that speech? Is it a chasâ€" 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 hear people use the phrase, ‘to the last T o Send More F ood to Our Allies is Not Charity When Liberty is in Peril T here is Threat of Lasting Disaster in the V ery W ord P eace" There must be no peace without vicâ€" fory. For : nearly.â€" four years Germany has b een s tr uggling against the powers o? law and order. She has failed so far to make good her esâ€" cape with her booty by superior strength and skill. And now she is attempting by intrigtite, suggestion, device propaâ€" cganda to divert the attention of her anâ€" tagonists from tie struggle itself, and thus to gain her ends b voretla x the strength at her antago W hat sh plain to all the woril in the surumml cxâ€" perience of Russia. Germany‘s mos t dangerous weapon is not her Zeppelinâ€" that is obsolete. Not her submarineâ€"that cait‘. be. _ Not her machineâ€"like mm\â€"-tl"xt has been repeatedly hurle d back by the living IrMIniesâ€" â€" 1ERemIgn: Her most dangerous weapon is her propâ€" aganda of peace. nds she murders and voice she invites to id \l\ll] (" man, and the last shilling,‘ and y>u think it is only a bit of rhetoric, but to my mind it‘s the most solemn and absoâ€" lute truth. I mean when I say it that it would in very truth be a million tim«s better for the people of these islands to be dead, every one of them, rather tha live on as the serfs of a triumplhant Prussia." } At all costs production must be mai u- taimed. How can any lover of liberty. remain insensible to this peril? Food means Victory and the world made safe for democracyâ€" Lark of food means disaster and subâ€" jugation to Germany. That‘s why farmers and farmers‘ sons are being exempted from military service. Working on a farm is cqui\ale'u to serâ€" vice in the Sewnd Line Trenches. To enable the farm to do the work two factors are essential. _ The first is Fime. Whatever we are to do must be done at once. â€" Nature waits for no mane The second is Labor. Many farmers caunot plant the acres they would because they cannot get the necessary bhelp.. Many are afraid to increase their acreage becanse they fear they would not be ahe to cultivate and lharvest an unusual crop after they lhad raised it. ‘The burden is not one to be placed solely upon the farmer. Neither can it be placed upon the townsman. t 183 2 personal obligatton upon every man,. waman, bey and girl, in every. faria, town and city home in the Province of Ontario, They, did it â€"last year. and will du._it again. As the greatest {food producing Provâ€" ince, Ontario must maintaim her leaderâ€" ship in America.. Great are our oppurâ€" tunitiesâ€"our responsibility is tremenâ€" cous. Upon every man and woman, boy and girl, rests a personal obligation to serve. Every pound of food produced,. in whatâ€" ever form, is a contribution to the Cause of Freedom. Ontario farmers should sow. acres of spring wheat. Every Ontario farmer whose land is at all suitable should put an extra live acres into wheat, even at the expense uf another crop. AWAY.â€" WITHELâ€" CREPPECISM â€"â€" CCOâ€" OPERATE! â€" Mr. City Man, don‘t say that the farmer sh(mld do soâ€"andâ€"so, and thus allow criticism in this hour of our Nation‘s peril to cripple yaur effort. Mr. Farmer, don‘t hastily underestiâ€" mate the value the city man can be to 114 te * Qll. GET TCGETHER IN THE FICGHT FCR LISERTY Let us not lament what MIGIHT be, but earnestly face what MUST Fitteenâ€" thousand boys between the azes of ..nmn and nineteen must be orâ€" gcanized as "Soldiers of the Soil" to work on Ontario farims this season. EFarmers can get one or more of these boys by applying to the District Repreâ€" sentatives or to the Public Employment Burcaux at Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton or London. + Unmarried cxempted from miliâ€" tary service, are urged to take up farm work, Married men who have had preâ€" vious expcrience on a farm are urgedito resume farmr work for a season.. Fim ployers of labor are asked to asststâ€"men to take up farm work. We urge <the farmer and the townsâ€" men to get together for gréater producâ€" tion in the interests of a free people and democracy. Let ‘the Organization of Resourees Committee, your District Representatives of the Public Employment Bureaux act as your intermediaries. When we have done our best, the cery for food cannot be wholly met. For the restâ€"our Allies are tightening their belts. Organizaetion of Resources Committes Parliament Buildings, Toronto, Ont. CHAIRMAN:â€" His Honor Bir John S. Hendrie, K.CM.G., C.V.O., Lieutenantâ€" Governor of Ontario. * VICEâ€"CHAIRâ€" MEN: Honorable Sir William H. Hearst, KCM.G.. Prime Minister of Ontario:; William Proudfoot, Esa., KC., Leader 6f the Opposition. SECRI",TARY: Alber:t H. Abbott, Esq., Ph.D. T he Citizens o+ Ontar o Mus: Lead Th:s Mighty Crucad: for Greater What YOU Can Bo To Help £5 I#CT{Ti0G n