GOING WITHOUT FOR US.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14647, 3 July 1918, Page 4

GOING WITHOUT FOR US.

AMERICA'S "SACRIFICE. (By Lacey Amy.) Naturally England takes to the 10.30 closing order with no more than a sigh. There can be no ground for national protest against the . privations of inherent shortages when America (Canadia :and the United .States) has long suffered equal, privations without the urge of 'locnl necessity. There has been no suffering m England this winter from lack of ■ coal. But America, where there are tons to hundredweights m Englandy has endured real physical* distress — all m orde* that labor and transportation facilities might bei directed to the needs of >tho European Allies. \ /* For five days there was complete industrial suspension. in the United States t— not only theatres and' 'clubs and restaurants, .but factories, too, and offices' 'and .wareh6uses<and music-halls and shops. In Canada the same sacrifice was endured for three days. In both countries 1 places of amusement were closed one day a week for several weeks. V • In Canada, libraries, churches, municipal buildings, although exempt from the order, observed 1 rtv- Church is con? ducted m. small rooms. Schols have closed for weeks at a time. Apartment-houses are) sometimes without heat. Friends lend coal by the scuttleful to friends or join households to save fuel.' In the City of Toronto partitions m houses were torn down for ftfel. • : And all this m the midst of the most severe winter for 63 years and tlie unprecedented experience of no thaw for ten week?. ■-.■■■■ Only now is England prohibiting window lighting. Canada stopped it .weeks ago. And the United States lias eliminated the great electric signs which made Broadway on© of the night sights of the world and about which is woven much of the romance of ' American advertising. ; Although America, is the home of wood pulp, the^great newspapers of the United, States are limited to sixteen pages. RailJway fares are higher. Passenger trains are greatly reduced. Freight rates have materially advanced. Canada has forfeited her settled policy of ■ protection by removing the duty on certain- importations. Merchants are co-operating . for delivery. Labor has bent to the new will. There, was no pa*y for the enforced idleness, , no overtime where work was necessary on those days. The miners' union refused to permit the workers m a Canadian mine to strike against an obvious injustice m rate, paying .the difference itself until the dispute could be adjusted. • v . With the food produced .by her own hands, America is stinting herself for the , Allies. Although there was , no surplus over normal local requirements the United States ihas been releasing 15*000,7 000 bushels monthly. Canada, lias pur-' 'Chased a vast quantity of. cheap fish, for its people m order that England njijrht have the! meat ; i Sugar, qonsorved for the Allies, is more, uncertain than m. England. There is probably more '^food \ eaten, more time wasted, at afternoon tens m London m on& day than m alj America m a month.. ." r Bread, potatoes, and margarine t are dearer in* America, and butter 1 and cheese about the same- as here. ':JLn Canada not a bushel of grain, not a pound of sugar, crocs to the manufacture of ■ potable liquors. x : , • .'. • Food' for thought is' often aii ideal substitute for food for the body. Real sacrifice consists m giving w> to others what one has, not m going without- whrvb one hasn't.' • •■■■•■-. ■; •' . ..- --_ ._^ _ j