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PAGE 42 Save the Food and Serve the Empire !

The Average Canadian Family Wastes Enough to Feed a Soldier

“The Kitchen must help as well as the Workshop and the Trenches”

Lloyd George.

the kitchen can do much

to prevent the threatened a ’ world famine—can counteract the effect of high prices— and can replace growing debt with systematic saving.

Careful investigations show that before the war the average British family wasted 25% of their food—and we Canadians were even more extravagant,

This waste is not in a few big things, but in many little ones, each, we used to think, too small to bother about—such as careless peeling of vegetables and fruit—failure to make good use of dripping and “left- overs”—and such others as will occur to every thrifty housekeeper.

For the Empire’s sake as well as your own, hunt up and cut out

these leaks! You'll be helping to relieve the food shortage—saving

our own money—and putting yourself in a position to buy Canadian ar Savings Certificates and help win the war.

War Savings Certificates are issued in denominations of $25, $50 and $100, to be repaid in three years at full face value. They cost $21.50, $43 and $86 respectively, at all Money Order Post- Offices and Banks, thus yielding over 5% Interest. Should you need it, you can get your money back at any time. 19

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Canada who have voiced their honest feelings in the matter and who believe that the primary trouble rests in the fact that too much attention is paid to evidence given by officers, and not enough to the evidence of those who have served in the ranks and who know what a ranker has to go through.

As nearly as can be learned, it is believed that the above conditions could be obviated, to a large extent, by looking after the first complaint, by appointing more doctors for attendance, and also the making of appointments by schedule. Secondly, by constantly and carefully checking over the men on the register. Thirdly, by a simpler and more sympathetic system in dealing with those who have been seriously wounded. Fourthly, by forwarding money to men more readily than is at present done. Fifthly, by a bureau of information where the men could have their individual perplexities carefully listened to and relieved, Sixthlyy, by the speeding up of artificial limb manufacturing, or by purchase abroad, and also the getting into new quarters as soon as possible. Seventhly, by a more appreciable sympathy on the part of those in charge of the work, and also a tactful intimation to the general public, who at present hardly realize the part the men have played and the sacrifices they have made. Eighthly and finally, an extension of the out-patient system, with a subsistence allowance which would give the afflicted man more independence of spirit and would help to alleviate a good deal quicker the physical ills which at present beset him.

I believe that if the Government were to make an analysis of these findings they would prove them to be substantially correct and that they are really matters which call for urgent attention before next winter finds us again unprepared to deal with the situation.

Every good citizen should make it his duty to see that certain bad practices which have obtained in other countries do not creep into Canada in connection with our pension system. Already we are told that in England certain employers are seeking to benefit themselves by using the pensions to lower wages. According to the "London Chronicle" the scheme is worked in this way: A man was granted a pension of sixteen shillings a week: his employer was graciously willing, according to his promise, to take him on again if he would be content with a wage which would make up the difference between sixteen shillings a week and the standard trade union rate. However, the case was settled by the determination of the union not to allow such a transaction.

While labour, at the present time, is scarce in Canada, and will probably be scarcer during the coming months, it would be only a wise precaution for all good citizens to vigilantly watch conditions so that the men who return from the Front are not taken advantage of. It is good to know that in Great Britain the War Pensions Statutory Committee is alive to the situation. So long ago as June, 1916, it suggested to the Board of Trade that the "rates of pay to disabled sailors and soldiers should bear the same proportion as the rates of pay to competent, able-bodied men as the output of the former bears to that of the latter." In other words, a policy of equal pay for equal work, irrespective of pension, had practically been decided on in the Old Country.

The Committee further proposed that if any dispute arises between discharged soldiers and sailors and their employers the question should be referred to a committee consisting of an equal number of representatives of employers and union labour organisations, who shall recommend to the Board of Trade what wages should be paid in each particular case. Since this proposal was made the British Board of Trade has agreed ta set up such machinery. Advisory Wage Boards are to be established experimentally in twenty of the principal cities and towns, and if they are a success, the system will be extended throughout the rest of the country. Each Advisory Wage Board will consist of an independent chairman, a local employer, and a local workman, together with not more than three members of the local War Pensions Committee, sitting as assessors, but without the right to vote.

It would be well if the Government of the Dominion would supplement such work as the various patriotic organisations in every locality may do by adapting the system which the British Board of Trade has put into effect in the Old Country, and thus guarantee to every pensioner his full remuneration for services rendered.

Now that your true worth has been made known provincial legislators all over the Dominion are hastening to give you the higher tight of citizenship by offering you Equal Suffrage at the polling booth. It becomes, therefore, incumbent on you to see that justice is fully administered to the soldiers who have done what they could in this great crisis, and also to those who are dependent on them. This is a great responsibility and will necessitate much of your time and energy as you merge more and more into the political fabric, T am absolutely sure that every woman will prove equal to the task if she perceives clearly just how necessary will be her energies when peace at last arrives. If the women of Canada catch the correct perspective, Canada's future will be even brighter than the past has ever been.