288 DEEP FURROWS 



The Banks, the Railways, the Manufacturers are con- 

 sidering them. The Joint Committee of Commerce and 

 Agriculture has great opportunities for removing much 

 old-time hostility on both sides. And now that true 

 co-operation of all classes has become a national duty, 

 surely out of the testing must come better under- 

 standing and a greater future. 



Just now, of course, there is only theJWar. It has 

 brought the Canadian people to their feet. For the 

 angry glare of the gun flashes has thrown in silhouette 

 many fallacies, many foibles and rubbish heaps, and 

 these must be swept out in preparation for the new 

 nationhood which Canada is called upon to assume. 

 With a third of the entire British Empire entrusted to 

 her management and the hopeful gaze of homemakers 

 the world over turning upon her Canada's responsi- 

 bilities are great. But she will rise to her opportunities. 



Just now there is only the War. The history of 

 mankind has no previous record oLsuch chaos, such a 

 solemn time. Thrones toppling, maps changing, whole 

 peoples dying of starvation and misery while the fate 

 of Democracy is balancecLon the issue. Men are slay- 

 ing each other on land, in the air, on the water and 

 below it while the forces of Destruction are gnawing 

 holes in the World's resources with the rapacity of 

 swarming rats. It is costing Great Britain alone over 

 thirty-five million dollars every day a million and a 

 half every hour ! 



As for Canada much figuring is being done by 

 experts and others in attempts to estimate the total 

 debt which the Canadian people will have to carry after 

 the war. But the people themselves are too far 

 immersed in war efforts to pause for futile reckonings. 

 There will be time enough for that when the war is. 



