IF YOU WISH TO HELP WIN THE WAR 



by increasing the output of Sugar within the Empire, 

 especially in India and the West Indies, 



READ 



The High Price of Sugar, 



and How to Reduce it by increasing the 

 production within the Empire 



(Second Reprint). 

 By H. Hamel Smith. 



Price Is. net, postage 3d. 



This work, although extendinj^ to only 54 pages, has 

 attracted much attention. The Indian Press has commented 

 freely on the ideas advanced and welcomed their publication, 

 whilst centres competing against our own sugar acknowledge the 

 " strength " of the arguments advanced. 



The Agricultural News of Barbados, the hub of ihe sugar world in the West 

 Indies, points out that the gist of the pamphlet rests on the idea that unattached 

 labour is becoming more and more scarce, whilst the area under cultivation grows 

 larger .ind larger; above all, the demand (or tropical produce is growing so 

 enormously that it would become necessary in the near future to produce the 

 largei-t possible crops per acre by intensive cultivation, and discard extensive 

 methods as needing too many hands. 



The book itself states as much on the cover, when it says: — 



Even 5,000,000 tons, including India, would make a good start, and that 

 m«ans, on Java's basis, only 1,250,000 acres under cane for the whole of the 

 Empire, or half of the area now planted in India alone. What an immense 

 saving of labour, which could then l)e devoted to other industries, such yields 

 would mean compared with our requirements under existing conditions. The 

 fact that in the near future every worker will be (if he does his duty) worth two 

 ordinary ones before the War, should aU-ne cause the authorities to see that those 

 who have the land and employ the labour to cultivate it, know how to appreciate 

 and how to use both to the best advantage, and that too without the labourers 

 being overworked to a degree that can lender them useless to their family or 

 themselves and a burden to the community at large. 



JOHN BALE, SONS AND DANIELSSON, Ltd., 

 83-91, GREAT TITCHHELD STREET, OXFORD ST., LONDON, W.i. 



