THE SIDNEY AND ISLANDS REVIEP a — 7 SIDNEY AND ISLANDS REVIEW : PUBLISHED BY THE SIDNEY PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY, LTD. Issued Every Thursday at Sidney, B. C. Advertising Rates on Application. Subscription Price, $1.00 per annum. Notices or advertisements must be in the "Review Office, corner of Fifth Street and Geacon Avenue, by Wednesday noon to insure publication, THE FOOD CONTROLLER SAYS The food situation in the Allied coun- | tries of Western Europe is graver than; it has been at any time since the be- ginning of the war. Information has been received by the Food Controller | which shows that the utmost effort must be made to increase spring acre- age and to secure a much larger pro- duction of bread grains in 1918 than was done in 1917. Mr. Hoover has al- ready pointed out that if ships have to be sent to more distant countries to carry food stuff to Europe, fewer ships will be available to carry soldiers and supplies from this continent, with a result that the continued participation of the United States and Canada in the war will be greatly hampered. The situation has been thoroughly canvassed, and among those who have, : - studied it, there is unanimous agree- ge" ment that the only solution of the food! problem is greater production in North | America. In this connection it is espec- gown in bread grains should be as large aS it can possibly be made. dally important that the spring acreage | man’s life. THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1918. saw the surest hope for the peace and progress of the world. While Earl Grey’s last message is ad dressed to the whole British Empire, if has special appeal for Canadians. OF all the great Dominions this is the one in which he took the keenest interest, and to which he was’ bound by the strongest ties. In fact his last publish- ed utterances under his own hand, was a warning to Canadians to avoid the pitfalls and injustices of party politics. To the end his hopes as an Imperial statesman were centered in Canada, and he delighted to describe himself even in England as a Canadian by adoption. It is therefore only natural that in his last message his eyes should have been turned particularly to this country. Mr. Begbie has very wisely added to Earl Grey’s last word a character study of the dead statesman himself. Canad- ians have every reason to recall how unselfish and lovable was the personal- ity of this nobleman, who probably numbered more intimate and devoted friends among all classes of the Canad- ian people than any other Governor- General. As Viscount Bryce says ad- mirably in this very book: ‘‘No more beautiful or lovable personality has ad- ourned our generation, or borne more worthily the tests of long life and high office.’’ Similar testimony is given by men of such diverse distinction as Lord Milner, George Russell, the Irish econ- omist and poet, Sir Starr Jameson and F.S. Oliver. The appreciations of these distinguished public men and writers, the clever and sympathetic character sketch by Mr. Begbie, and above all Earl Grey’s own last word to a harass- ed and bewildered world, make this book, which is announced for immed- iate publication by Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton Limited, Toronto, one which should have an al most universal ap- peal. It is a fitting monument to a great career closed in honor and in un- selfish public service. It represents also the accumulated wisdom of a states- Special sale of all goods in stock. _. Every person who can possibly pro-|Special prices on clocks. Call at Fral- duce food must do so, no matter how) Small his or her contribution may be. Those who cannot produce food can at least conserv eit. The utmost economy is imperative. The situation to-day is critical and the world is rapidly ap- proaching that condition when ~rice will not be the most important question, | but when even the people of Canada | “may be glad to eat any food which they ..ced -obtain.: ‘ties ; The successful prosecution of the war by the Allies will depend to a very large extent upon the extent of food production and food conservation this year by the people of North America. Baron Rhondda in a recent message says: ‘‘The food position in this coun- try, and I understand in France also, can without exaggeration be described as critical and anxious. I am now un- -_ \ able to avoid compulsory regulation. I a fear it will have to come with long i * lines of people awaiting in the severe Weather in practicallv every town in England for the daily necessaries of life.’’ t - A LAST WORD TO CANADIANS. ‘ ry YY A piece of literary news which has for Canadians an almost national signifi- cance is the announcement of the forth- coming publication of Earl Grey’s last “a, . message to the Empire. At a time whem EERO Utama rent e-imost devoted and unselfish of statesmen might be pardoned for think- ing only of his approaching end and his private affairs, Earl Grey summoned his failing energies to utter a final word in support of the ideals to which he had devoted his life. The message has been ‘Won to the world through Mr. Howard Boegbie, the. well known novelist and man of letters, who has for some years intimately associated himself with the ‘late Earl Grey. Such a message as this, coming from a statesman of proverbially liberal and he progressive views, would at any time Hi deserve the most serious consideration. Tut at such a period of stress and change as the present, when the whole fabric of modern society has been thrown into the fiery crucible of war, it has a very real significence. Far more keenly than most public men, ‘Earl Grey realized the perils to liberty and progress involved in the great Huropean struggle, perils which might still exist, even if Germany were decis- ively beaten. These perils lie in the long and bitter struggle between capital and labor, in the selfish tyranny of partizan politics, in the spirit of arid sacerdotal- ism in the church, and in the general tendencies of society towards money- grabbing industrialism and materialis- ~“tie~standards of happiness. 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