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BETTER FRUIT 



June 



Berger & Carter 

 Company 



MANUFACTURERS AND 

 JOBBING DISTRIBUTORS 

 OF 



Equipment and Supplies for the 

 Food Preserving Industries 



Home Offices: 



17th and Mississippi Streets 



San Francisco, Cal. 



Division Offices: 



i Los Angeles 



Portland 

 I Seattle 



Hydraulic Cider Presses 



Windfalls, culls and undergrades make valu- - 

 able food products when made into cider, cider 

 vinegar, apple butter, jelly, etc. Apple 

 waste can be turned into profits with little 

 labor and expense by using improved 

 Mount Gilead equipment. There is big 

 money made in custom pressing. Some, 

 by using the press here illustrated, are 

 clearing $1200.00 a season. 



We build complete cider 

 press outfits in sizes from 10 to 

 400 bbls. daily- Hand or power. 

 Our cider presses are the result 

 of 40 years specializing. They 

 have taken highest awards at 

 all the big expositions. Our 

 catalogs contain valuable in- 

 formation. Copies free on re- 

 quest. 



THE HYDRAULIC PRESS MFG. CO., 60 Lincoln Avenue, Mount Gilead, Ohio 



WESTERN AGENTS: 



The Berger & Carter Co., 17th and Mississippi Sts., San Francisco, Cal. 



Food Control or Famine 



By Ernest B. Roberts, in The Montreal Star and The Toronto Globe 



DO you remember when the British 

 people first learned that this would 

 be a long war? It was not by Earl 

 Kitcheners' famous statement that it 

 would last three years; there was to us 

 then something airy and ultra-profes- 

 sional about the prediction we could 

 not understand. The people had not 

 then learned to speak in solidier's 

 terms. No, it was when Mr. Lloyd 

 George, the "little Welshman," a com- 

 mon man, interpreted for them in com- 

 mon language the full significance of 

 the bad dream they dreamt they were 

 undergoing: "It takes eight months to 

 make the machine on which to make 

 machine guns," he said in July, 1915, 

 after the war had already run its 

 bloody course for eleven months. "We 

 have had to build factories in which to 

 make the machinery for making ma- 

 chine guns. Our high explosive shell 

 requires tools for one hundred separate 

 gauges for the nose alone." The British 

 people gasped, but then, recovering 

 with grand courage, buckled down 

 grimly to meet the worst that the 

 Kaiser's "Big Blond Beast" could give. 

 That British people today, centered in 

 the "little isle set in the silver sea," is 

 down on the mat with that beast with 

 their last nerve taut and tight, fighting 

 a fight that, whether we recognize it in 

 Canada or not, is going to settle for all 

 time the destiny of Canada. For if, — 

 if Britain fails'? That is all that hap- 

 pened to France in 1760. But Canada 

 changed hands through the failure. 



What does Britain's effort mean to 

 Canada? As little to nine out of ten 

 of us as did Earl Kitchener's in 1914. 

 We read, in a detached kind of way, as 

 though it were of academic interest 

 only, that the nation is now on rations. 

 What is it that puts a whole free people 

 of 40,000,000 on measured meals? Why 

 cannot they have a "second helping" if 

 they can pay for it? We do it in 

 Canada; in fact some in Canada, thanks 

 to British money paid over for shells, 

 are doing it today where they never did 

 it before. But why should the work- 

 ingman's wife in the Old Country have 

 to dole out her old man's dinner as 

 though she bedrudged it? Why should 

 good, honest folks, not of the "charity 

 type," have to wait hours and hours in 



the queues, just as they do at your 

 picture shows in Canada, for the bread 

 which is to keep body and soul to- 

 gether? Why should women and chil- 

 dren, bone of your bone and flesh of 

 your flesh, as tenderly brought up as 

 any in Canada, be given just eight little 

 ounces of sugar in a week of seven long 

 days? We ask these things in Canada, 

 those of us who are trying to under- 

 stand, but we ask with the same sort of 

 bewilderment as we felt in 1914 when 

 told we could not get to Berlin in 1915. 

 Because it takes, to paraphrase Lloyd 

 George's words, much more than eight 

 months to make the machinery which 

 shall feed a nation at war. 



That is the present stage of food 

 control. We are still making the bricks 

 of which the factory of food control 

 proper shall be built before we can 

 make the machinery by which food 

 control shall be accomplished. "I fear," 

 said Lloyd George on another mem- 

 orable occasion, and again we lacked 

 the comprehension to grasp what he 

 spoke of, "I fear the disciplined people 

 behind the Germany army, the rationed 

 family and the determination of wife, 

 and sister, and daughter, and mother to 

 stand and starve so that their fighting 

 men may be fed — I fear it more than 

 the Imeprial Army itself." Only with 

 a disciplined people behind can we 

 hope to win that for which our souls 

 are crying out. That is why the British 

 people with a tremendous consecration 

 that reaches to the tender children, 

 have set themselves to a task from 

 which they will only rise victors or 

 vanquished. The rationed nation, the 

 rationed family, the rationed child, 

 blood of your blood and bone of your 

 bone of a common British stock, that 

 is the price they are proud to pay. For 

 in this there is a mighty pride, a con- 

 scious measuring of their glory with 

 the best traditions of ancient Sparta 

 and of Imperial Borne, for they know 

 that "it is a tar, far better thing that 

 they do than they have ever done." It 

 shall ring and echo forever along the 

 brightest hilltops of human history. 

 The Canadian people have not yet had 

 time to understand that the Food Con- 

 troller's is the only war-time organiza- 

 tion which had no workshop, no work- 



ers, no anything to guide before the 

 war. The militia department at least 

 had a nucleus round which recruiting 

 accretions could be grouped. 



Food control until a year ago was a 

 new science, unlearned so far as the 

 Anglo-Saxon races were concerned, 

 needless as the Prussian goosestep. 

 There was no precedent for anything 

 that had to be done; the Food Control- 

 lers in England, the United States and 

 in Canada had to blaze their own trails. 

 Conditions in the United States and in 

 Canada were approximately alike, and 

 the result has been that there is now 

 close co-operation between Ottawa and 

 Washington. It took eight months to 

 make the machine to make machine 

 guns, though they knew how to cast 

 and build those machines from the first. 

 Yet our overfed can only ask in slip- 

 pered, armchair comfort, "What is the 

 Food Controller doing?" 



An outstanding change has taken 

 place in the expert attitude toward 

 food control in the last few months. 

 In fact it is almost a matter of the last 

 few weeks. Food control does not now 

 chiefly mean a regulation of prices for 

 us at home. What Food Controllers are 

 faced with is the shortage of the food 

 to control. It is famine rather than 

 prices. This fact is the more startling 

 the more one knows it. Rhondda, 

 Hoover and the Food Controller of 

 Canada, crossing the threshhold almost 

 simultaneously of a new domain, have 

 suddenly come across the hideous 

 shadow of a spectre of world famine 

 darkening every path. What does it 

 mean? Unless the people of North 

 America do their utmost to conserve 

 and to produce food, it means one of 

 two ugly alternatives: Defeat or desti- 

 tution in France, Italy and England — 

 in homes on whose supplies of food the 

 destiny of Canada depends as inevitably 

 as though our nine provinces were with 

 the departments of Northern France 

 and Northeast Italy actually under the 

 fell heel of Prussianism. 



The food of the civil population of 

 France has been so close to exhaustion 

 that it was dependent on British ship- 

 ping for its maintenance; and this ship- 

 ping is so depleted by the submarine 

 campaign that not a ship could be 

 spared to carry the huge supplies that 

 Italy had bought and paid for in Argcn- 



