1'? - - whose seed, labor, fertilizer and all that|` ' goes to make a successful crop for nexti " the full limit of their capacity for many: l i . . . ° . ‘ iii so, is so serious that it may mean the loss 1 l if » r » \ Q i 1 A _, »-, i 4"; i I 1- have farms that cannot do any better than , , theyeare-doing bee-auseef-the want--of seed, _ ii I . » Ti’ ' food production if we would. And why i»_ * »l needless al_ai'm but we do believe in pla- cing the situation fairly before our peo- \ V ' FRIDAY M.~\Rl`ll 22nd, l91S -_-__ , _ _T _,_ ..,, -_-_~_~_-_-,f -, ..._ -_ _ -_-. ..-V-Y . -.- -V-_-.. 1----' 4-' ‘---‘~‘--1' ‘ ‘- I fl FOOD l‘l_lOl)l`("l`IO.\' The cityward flow from the farms is attracting a good deal of attention now that th'e serious consequences likely to re- . suit from it is becoming more and more appare'ht. Already the crop of the coming year isf being estimated and present ap-‘ . .__.peaitanccs_indi_cat£-QmtllL§&Ti£ §_?9i‘9!lS it , will fall short of the normal average crop. The letter of Rev. Mr.-Harding, of Tignish, which appears elsewhere in this paper.i gives a somewhat discouraging prospect of' conditions in the westeri'i part of the pi'o- vince. Doiibtless the scarcity of' seed, of' labor and of fertilizer will also be felt in other sections. This added to the state-, ment that in the State of Maine alone thel crop acreage will be 50,000 acres less _than last yea-r, reveals a condition the serious-_ ness of which oui' people apparently have not _vet grasped. ` It is little use talking starvation to thei man whose barns and cellars ai'e full audi ii season, are already in sight. This is the . position enjoyed by the great majority of Q1 ~ our farmers and the_ threat of starvation or l " even of want falls lightly iipo_n them. Our i best farms have been producing almost to r years. This is what made 'them our best f farms. and while the increased prices of 4 the past few years may have added a little to their output the average well worked farm cannot be expected to produce much more than in the past few years. Our only hope of increasing production is to get af- ter the poorer farms, the vacant f'arnis, the abandoned farms whose owners have gone elsewhere, many of them to the cities to . become consumers instead of producers. 1 Now, to come to the point: The food si- ' tuation is not onlv serious but extremely ...,,, _-...M (J-u|,_f_.. of the war and the loss of those things which we have consideied sufficiently va- - luable to sacrifice the lives of our best be- loved to save. We have idle farms, we of labor and of fertilizer. We have men who are doing women’s work, we have men, doing work that does not require to bel il, done, we have men doing work that had 4; better be left undone. In other words we, gi have the means to _greatly increase our would we not? First of all for the simple 5_3; reason that in our comparative prosperity we refuse to look the situation squaifely in ‘; . the face. We _do not believe in raising 4 ple even though it be alarming and that is 2 the situation today-alai'ining- and the ,sooner our people realize it the better. Our correspondent suggests starting “ai campaign for an increase of acreage on P. E. _Island.” By all means, but such a cam- paign has been carried on for the past three years and right up to the present many of our people still regard it in the light of dollars and cents not the winning of the Wai' oi' the salvation of the world. The crying need of more production and; the fate that threatens us if we do not produce should be cried aloud from the housetops, from the pulpit, from the plat- form,_from the press. It will be too late to do this when it is too late. sncni-:fr n0ci'.i|ic.\'T couics To Liolrr _Those who. think such a thing as a ne- gotiated peace is possible with Germany, who think -any kind of peace conference is possible until she has been beaten, who take her words not _exactly at their face value but as containing some residuum of truth, should attend to the secret official communication which fell into Hugo Haa`se’s hands and was read by him to the Main Committee of the Reichstag. Haase is the_.leader of the Independent Socialists, who are the anti-Kaiserite minority So- cialists. The document he produced was a U secret, communication sent by Berlin to Vienna outlining Germany’s intentions. It was .wrtiten by Michaelis, who was then Chancellor. ' This is the same Michaelis who preten- ded .to accept the resolution of the Reich- stag declaring for peace without annexa- tions. Wh`ile Michaelis-who, like Beth- ~ nlannand Hertiing, ismerely the mouth- piece and pupet of the real rulers and not to -be~cons1dered as having an identity apart from them-was declaring to the _'A i _:fr ’=."u_."...:i-. __=...i.ii»- `t,~&.\ ¢»,».!~i_.¢,s#.)'&i:\i A _ _ ' _ _ ‘ " ' ` ' 't ' ,\_.,:~ \ _,__..,~.,_.. ___=',»» . _ w " ' ‘ ‘ L < ' , ' _ ~ _ _ V , » ‘ - 1 ' 'rate an __ _ _ _ 0 I a 0 a commvn __ d pacific aims, in secret he was ` icating to Austria her real aims. i ‘f _ _ Compare them: uni-wifi; unity-(anim 1:91), mio W yur. uniiv- micwistis 'ro THE; wiicnnsiiis 'ro Aus , cred) ln,,ndv_f|nco" 82.50 per your (mulled) In advam_to, in 'R¢|¢H31-AG_ _|U|_y ' 1-R|A_ |N 1-HE '35 ---- Can|d|,_l_nd"88.0f) for U.S.A. 19_ 1917 ~ CRET DOMJMEN-,_ There nre many thousands of mo. -_-,-,-,-_-,-_-_-,-,-_-_-,-_-f_-.-,-,-.-_-,-_-;.-_-,~,--.--.~.-.~..-:=-=----»--=-'--- -‘-~- --‘f-A---f The cgncgntrutlon of ’l‘he_ motive nf all Oi' lh°l`5 ill me Uni'-ed Stale* ‘md 3 PY0' the Russian Army conr- Gcrninny's nets is the lack pc-lied Goriiiniiy to seize` of territory. both for tho tho sword. There \vus,ilcvelopnient oi' coninicrco no choice loft to ns, :ind wliat. is true of the wal' itself is true also oi out weapons. piirticuliirly the submarine. _ I Licriniiny did not desire the war in order to niiihc, \'iolent conquests. and tlierei'oi'e will not conti nite the war ri day longer iiiorely tor thc suite ol coiiiinests, il"`it could ob tain an lioiiornlile peace These aims may be at-» tained within the liniitsi oi' your resolution .is l` uiiilei'stanil lt, (the Ileiclistzig resolution do clu\'ing against annexa- tioiis.) \\'e cannot again oi`i`ei' peace. We have lo yiiily strctclied out our liaiids once. it niet ri ivsipoiise; init ’-“ ‘ii thi (in\'eriiiii<~iit feels that .l our enciiiics nbiinilor their lust t`or couqueii' iiiiil their aims of snbju giition, und wish to ente- inio uegotiatioiis, we shall listen honestly anfi readily for pence tr what they have lo siiy ti us. ‘ i \\'hat we loir: to at tain is ai new :ind splen diil Gerinany, not ai Ger inany which wi.-.lies, :ii oui' enemies bcliovc. ti terrorize the world will licr armed iiiiglit-no, tht nioraily purified. Go( leiiring, loyal, peut-cl'\il and iniglity German' which we all love. l~'oi this Germany we and; I oui' brothers out tlieri will bleed :ind iii~ ,_ . . . . Allq 110W Comes Bethrnann lunch with zi qiiiirt of Cliquot, and admission that before_ the declaration Oi W-iiii.. rin siiiiiiiys genius oiiisiiie war he issued instructions to demand from or .i iiiiigmim of ii. 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