PRESS OF THE EMPIRE. PUBLICITY, AND PROGRESS.
IMPERIAL NEWS SERVICE.
THE HONGKONG · DAILY. "PRESN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH, 1918.
Mr. Mayrand, of Montreal, also re sponded, and dwelt, upon the importance of increasing the facilities for the dis semination of news throughout the Em- pire. The whole civilisation of the world. he said, was at stake this war, and Canada stood by the Motherland.
WAR AND FOOD. MR. HOUVER ON THE OUTLOOK. Mr. Herbert Hoover, Food Administra tor of the United States, and Chairman far as Quebec was concerned there might of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, have been differences of opinion as to
was entertained at luncheon at the Man- the best way of helping in the struggle. but the unbending loyalty of Frenchsion House, recently, when he gave a Canadians had never been questioned by comprehensive review of the food situa
Hear
hear. people of good faith. They sent overseas thousands of volun- tion. He gave a cheerful account of the as conscription be outlook in the countries pitted against the tears, and as soon came
me law they aubmitted to it, and now
declared that a periphery of starvation their men were coming over wholeheart Central Powers, and, on the other hand, edly to assist the Allies.. (Cheers.)
Mr. N. W. Rowell, propoeing the health rings about so-called German victory.!! of Lord Burnham, said they all wished to express their appreciation of the grear Mr. Ansten Chamberlain, M.P. offerrd public service rendered by the association a welcome to Mr. Hoover on behalf of the of which he was president. In connection with the war the Press had rendered ser: Government, and accompanied it with an vices which none of the countries could expression of deep appreciation of the repay. At their own expense they had
financial guarantees and assurances to our agricultural population as to stabilised markets for these products It is a truism to economists that to increase | production we must give assurances, to the high-cost producer, and, thus bring into play that margin of land and exer sumstances come into operation. (Hear, tion which would not under normal cir-
henr.)
'BETTER' BREAD COMING,
**Our first consideration was bread- stuffe It has been the ambition of the American people during the past year stuffs in Europe should be relieved, and the the quality of Ionf that the restriction in quantity of bread- improved. (Cheers.) The fationing of bread does not sound well in American ears, and I am happy to tell you that the exertion of our agricultural authorities sad of our farm-
Taking advantage of the presence in Landon of the representatives of the Press of Canada, who are visiting Great Bri- tain in order to give to the people in the Dominion a fuller idea of war condi- tions, the Empire Press Union enter- tained the visitors at a luncheon and beld a conference, at which the question of news distribution throughout the Empire At both gatherings, in addition to Canada, other Dominions were represented, and at the conference emphasis was laid on the importance of a constant and direct dow of news between the Mother Country and the Overseas given the people information upon which help which America is rendering to the is. I believe it will be the jaint con-
In this connection Mr. N. Dominions. W. Rowell, President of the Privy Coua cil of Canada, said one of the best menus
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to base their judgment, and they had kept the high moral issue clearly before the public, and thus stimulated them to still The Empire was held further effort. toner by public opinion, and when its the interests of humanity, the Empire Preas Union had a great place to fill in preserving unity, not only for the Empire but for humanity, which benefited by it (Cheers.),
continued, existence was worth while m
IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.
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clusion of my colleagues in European countries that we can get along with less moderate mixture of the other reals in the loaf, and thus provide better bread of maintaining the unity of the Empire
rising to respond to the toast of his health. for the entire 290,000,000 people opposed solute necessity, but because we believe was by each part having as full a know
The conference of Allied food officials, be to Germany. We do not do this from ab
this. ledge as possible of what was occurring
said, came at a peculiarly auspicious we must take the long view, and must 3 build up from our breadstuff The work performed by
moment for all those who were fighting Germany. Victory rested upon the Bri-climatic dangers to harvest. (Cheers) the Empire Press Union in this direction,
tish, French, and Italian arms, and, he
It was clear that with restricted ship- by securing a reduction of cable rates and
ping the Allies must face a reduction in could add with pride, the American arma.
fudder imports, and consequently improving the news services, was fully
(Cheers.) The vital relationship of food decrease in animal products until the appreciated by the conference, but the necessity for further developments was recognised, and a resolution was passed.
Mr. Robert Donald presided at the con- and war was announced to the whole submarine was overcome and our ship- auction will, bowever, be continuous expressing the opinion that the Empire Press Union should use its influence to ference, and in welcoming the Canadisa world within three months of the outbreak ping restored. This degeneration of pro- secure better, quicker, and cheaper facili-journalists maid Canada had found her of hostilities by the realisation that throughout the war, fer it must be good
self during the war. Her great effort ties for the dissemination of news.
Lord Burahim, the President of the old not have been accomplished but for 10,000,000 people in Belgium and Northern strategy to devoto European land to the patriotism of the Press. The first France were in jeopardy of immediate breadstuff production, sad to save four It was little realised then to one in ships by sending animal pre- union, presided at the luncheon, which Imperial Press Conference marked an starvation.
blem of agricultural substitution was held at the Savoy Hotel
immense advance towards a better under that sooner or later the food supplies of ducts instead of fodder. This great pro- Lord Burnham, in proposing "The re-standing between the different parts of the 300,000,000 people would be endangered, dominated by two critical relative faci
Empire. The Empire Press Union had and that the economic disturbances aris
development of ly, the expenditure in our fodder, and, Kaid that during the last decade we might good read and during the war they ing out of it would penetrate into every tors. First, the time factor; and, second. therefore, our land productivity. To have been buoyed up by a spirit of had secured new facilities for correspon quarter of the globe.
rients. Thanks, for example, to the this titanie struggle.. to a point where.
On the approval, to some extent illusory but he persuasiveness and diplomacy of their practically one-third of the min-power of increase our beef production would re- thought they might throw back their
down the exclusiveness of the warfare could have but one result on food other hand, we could bring an enormous minds involuntarily to one event during president (Lord Burnham), they had the white races would be called out for quite from three to five years.
Furthermore the those years which they could regard with Colonial Office. The chief function of the
increase in our meat and fat production to cut off or reduce the food through swine within nine to twelve sembly in that great nerve centre of cows Empire Press Union was, to use the col-suction. increasing satisfaction-be meant the as of the Imperial Press Conference of 1909. lective power and influence of the Press supply of ourselves or the enemy had months. We could also produce the same It was the first attempt to of the Empire to secure better facilities become one of the primary strategies in food value from swine with one-fourth The enemy had rendered our the consumption of fodder crops that we (Cheers.) organise the newspaper power of the Em for the dissemination of news and in the war.
and, to use a military phrase, promote the common interests of the Em-food problem complex and difficult by the could obtain from cattle. We have there- bring it up to strength." (Hear, hea)piro in unofficial ways, and without con- destruction of shipping, and the partial fore urged, and given assurances to our And admirably it succeeded. He did not cerning itself with politics. (Hear, hear.) isolation of many of the great sources of agricultural population, which have fed duction. I have in my possession the say that the conference gave them a new To this end it advocated, the further re-supply in the Southern Hemisphere, but to a wonderfu, increase in our swine pro- duction of cable tolls, the extension of he had failed in his objective. (Cheers.)
needs of the European Allies for mests. Press, but it gave them what was so cables and wireless, better, quicker, and "In normal times, whether the harvest We can furnish this whole volume in pork times called "new atmospheric conditions.
to cheaper means of communication of every be high or low," Mr. Hoover continued, alone. (Cheers.) I mentioned that this Through that conference they learnt
They wanted to see and to work the world possesses little margin of food last. twelve months the United States has know one another, and to see what benefit kind they could be to one another by mutual for more rabies, supplemented by wireless. supplies from year to year. Population exported about 10,000,000 tens of food- service and common action, and from it service of last oil-driven ships, and un
Union. aerial express service of mails and pass presses upon the heels of available food stuffs to the Allies. We can summarise supply. (Hear, hear.) With the higher oar present position by stating that h the Empire Press sprang
gers, which would bring Canada within standard of living among the white races the next twelve months we can, with less (Cheers.)
there is some safety margin in the pressure of saving upon our people, ex- twenty-four hours" journey of London. During war time most things bad
They had probably read that the Impossibility of decreasing consumption port 18,000,000 tons if it prove Decessary.
public health. But and to
this Canada will add about changed, and nothing more than the news. paper Press. It was a great poser before perial War Conference had passed are without damage to
solution dealing with an Imperia: news true food strategy lies in the stimulatica
PERIOD OF ANXIETIES ANDEN. the war, but it was a far greater power service with the object of securing at of production by the elimination of food 3,000,000 tons. (Cheers.) BOW. (Hear, hear. There never was a
"We are all building ships as a part time when the newspaper Press was so dequate news service available in all studs of less nutritive value of less independent of persons and of parties as parts of the British Empire through Bri- economic production, in favour of those
sources. The Government was preof more vital importance. Such it was to-day. If it did not stand above fish
a scheme which would evidently must be founded on the science policies of our submarine defence. We have now from.par parties, it at least stood apart from Phat provide for the getting up of an Imperini sion, a science which had long remained built up our food reserves in the nearest If this meant better dis locked up in our laboratories, but stands ships for food next year will be less than to hold. Dewsagency. the newspaper Press ought
semination of true and impartial informe now silhouetted against a background of Inst. In consequence, we have more ships The feeding of peoples is no fer American soldiers. In practical results (Hear, hear.) There had also been change in the attitude of Government the tion during the war, he assumed that they tragedy.
can deliver artments, He would not say there had were all in favour of it. It is meant im. longer a matter of money, or of exchange we have turned the corner.
(Hear, hear.), after the war they welcomed it. If it of prime importance in national strategy it without restriction, except the injunc economy. Our meat and fat sup- meant that the Government intended to and national administration. (Choers) tion to
Beyond this we can They could not complain now of any want set up an official bureau with an official Furthermore, the problem of food, pene plies are ample. of official attention. Sometimes they basked in the sunshine of official favour.newsagency, subsidised and controlled, trating as it does three times daily into this year build up reserves in North Ame directly or indirectis, by Government of every bome, giving rise to anxieties and rica against the possibility of short The period of our But he thought he was cinis, they were dead against it. (Cheers,) fears in every heart, becomes one of the harvests next year (Laughter.) speaking for the Press of the Erapire when fet the Government confine itself to pro- dominant problems in moral and con- anxieties in food in all essentials is now be said that the only favour they soughtviding facilities.
past. (Cheers.) During the past year Newspapers would do stancy in war."
the Food Administrations of the Allies was fair and equal opportunities to con duct their journals according to their own the rest. An official news service would
have been dealing with food shortages, enterprise and the measure of their abili destroy the freedom and independence of
the Press. (Hear, hear.) A great man Dealing with the steps taken by Ame and orderly administration had to give We have ties. (Hear, hear.) They did not care for patronage, and they were not very once said, "Let me write the ballads of rica to co-operate in solving the food way to emergency measures. ford of the sort of inspiration which had a people, and I care not who make their problem, Mr. Hoover said that the entry been stop-gapping situations from day to Similarly, the Government official of his country into the war was at day Conspicuous in that task in Britain, made the German Press the byword of newsinan could say, "Let me select the period too late in the season to secure the alike by breadth of view, by administra-
courage,
in hopest men. (Hear, hear.) They wanted
news for the papers, and I don't care who full effect in the first twelve months of five skill, and by amazes the British to be able. even more, to serve one an
After all, as Lord Beaverbrook Writes editorials News could be made such measures as they could adopt in the the successful rationing of had truly said the best propaganda tendacious: the most subtle, penetrating, stimulation of production. Furthermore, public, was Lord Ebendda (Cheers) In is the truth" and nothing could help and dangerous kind of propaganda could from climatic causes, the 1917 harvest in that work he has laid down his life, but the Empire so much as a true and cheap go out in the guise of news. The official the United States, as in France and Italy. not until the national peril had been met was in a considerable measure a nutri- and passed. The work of the Food Ad- news bureau could, and would, at the service of news. (Hear, bear.) The cable dictation of a political chief, suppress tional failure. In fact, the whole produc ministration of the Allies and ourselves rates, which they had succeeded in sub- stantially lowering, were still too high, news which it ought to circulate, and tion of the United States for the harvest for the next harvest year takes on a new circalate news which it should suppress year 1817-18 was nearly 9 per cent. below phase. The submarine menace no longer and they looked forward to the day when Let them beware, therefore, of a Ger the average of the three previous years threatens the day-to-day supply of food.
British Empire would be girdled by the All-Bed" route of communication, manised spoon-fed Press. (Hear, hear) Beyond this, the great drain of food. We can now proceed with orderly and which would enable them to secure greater We went into this world war with a free, stuffs to Europe during the previous sen- definite plans to the end that the neces facilities for doing their duty to the pub clean, and independent Press. Let them son had exhausted their supplies to an sary food shall be brought to the Allies lic. For publicity was a necessary condi guard that precious possession. Cheers) extent never hitherto known in the United in such ways, and from such sources, that Mr. R. Richardson, M.P. (Winnipeg) States, and had even entrenched upon shipping shall be conserved. The matter tion to progress in the modern world..said he was particularly glad to bear the their capital in animals. In order that of prime importance now is wisdom in (Cheers.) They believed they would be declaration made by the chairman that in they might give immediate service to the plan. (Henr, hear.) able to increase the eficiency of the Lewe no sense must the independence of the Allied food cause it was vital for them
"For that purpose the food administra They meant to do it if they Fress be interfered with by any arrange to restrict consumption and to furnish tors are gathered to take counsel toge could, and they were looking forward toment that might be made for the subsidy practically exclusively to the Allies such ther as to our resources and how they the next Imperial Prees Conference of cable services for the dissemination of food supplies as they could produce may bert be utilized. I bave great
on the invitation of the Press
They had during the last twelve months faith in the development of programmer Canada, was to be held at Winnipeg Bows (Heur, hent.)
Mr. J. H. Woods (Calgary) proposed exported about 10,000,00 tons of food, for joint action carefully worked ont (Hear, hear.) Meanwhile, they felt that
That in the opinion of this Confer-and, aside from their diminished produc the
they had was.to
moditier by the Food Administrator and the Imperial War Cabinet to get through
ence the Empire Press Union should tion during that year, it was to be re- prepared as to each group of food com membered that the United States was not ita
win- great
task and overmastering
use its influence to secure better, quick- i normally a food exporting country of the committees of their deputies which |
Not only is the er, and cheaper facilities for the dis-or (Cheers.) ning the war of civilisation.
wonders
consequence. (Hear, hear.) The saving may continue the work done The Canadian Press had
exchange of knowledge important, not needed food. They have outrun their semination of news throughout the Em- of foodstuffs in the United States had only are all chances of minor friction borders, they have crushed whole races of that respect. None of them could do too
Pire from British source, and that such been" wholly upon a voluntary Basis, and eliminated, but, more than that, it is only people, and they are daily supplementing | co-operation as Governments may give much. (Hear, hear.) They believed in
shall be limited to assisting in the
no better indication of the devotion of by the completion of import programmes their own food supplies by extraction of, a free Press working for the cause
provision of facilities,"
the American people to the common cause that the needs of the several nations can the already short supplies of these help- A periphery of starvation freedom, and they would do all they could
Lord Burnham seconded the resolution, could exist than the volume of food that be wisely ascertained, and the inevitable less people. to promote and facilitate & working agree- ment with all the Britains a brotherhood Bir Roderick Jones said, with regard the last ell dough the ports during struggle for tonringe between the different rings shout so-called Germany victory. branches of governments and commodi These conquered people, already hungry of free peoples making for the progress to the proposed Imperial service, the sole the last six months. (Cheers.)
idea was to afford Press representatives "In considering the
world's food ties can be eliminated, and our produc- are being slowly and surely starved, and. of the world. (Cheers).
throughout the Empire further facilities, strategy, we felt that we must lay our tion, policies can be brought even further their loss of lives through malnutrition and starvation during the next barvest Mr. into tune. (Cheers.) leaving it to the Preas to make the heat prima foundation in production,”
year will be far larger than all the casual- Hoover continued: The reduction in While the 220,000,000 people in Europe, ries on the Western front. There is no Mr. J. H. Doods (Calgary), in returning use of these facilities (Hear, hear.)
The resolution was carried.
our consumption must be a reserve against and North America pitted against the greater illumination of the ill that has thanks, said that in Canada, as in other
emergencies such as we have gone through Germans are able to congratulate them been done to civilisation through the parts of the Empire, they had realised
during the past year. The first considera selves on having successfully passed, ambitions of this group of men than the the tremendous obligation of guiding the
tion in feeding a people in to have the through a bad winter, and on having appalling outlook which confronts his public in the paths of loyalty. If they
food. The cost of production is a second entered into a-year of mors abundant belpless mass, who are now under the had been successful in accomplishing a
ary matter to empty stomachs, and from food supplies-in fact into a year where beneficence of German kultur. A part of their endeavour, the conference
the broad political point of view a small but little restriction except in coonomy Uut of our servise and abilities we that they had attended would be an
From a White Paper issued recently the margin of shortage in supplies, will pro- from our people is necessary-we can fur- inspiration to seek, in the future, to full
duce more dissatisfaction and more dun the congratulate ourselves on the com- are able to relieve these people only at wone point-Belgium and Northern France. that duty in a greater degree, and to distribution of naval prize money out of levate the spirits of their people. (Hear, the fund about to be set up for that purgar in the ad world can much bet parative situation of the enemyhin the Despite the winter that we have passed bear.), If he might give one message, not pose, the proportions of shares are laid to cost The Alliod bettake a broad view, we perceive
enemy lises one outstanding dominating through, and the dificulties that we have For production than it can stand the the people of Canada, it was this: Come are eligible for prize money.
the first charge on the whole of our food. what may, they were in this war to the instance, the Commander-in-Chief of the tent of hunger. (Cheers.) In order to dred thousand persons, comprising the these, the first to suffer, bas given them produce the supplement to Allied food, dominating spirit in Germany, through suffering as greatly ne they do, they at last drop of blood in their bodies: Grand Fleet will receive 2000 lares, 20 the United States had two primo prob years of Machiavellian industry have been least have the hope that the Allies will (Cheers.) There was no limit to the sacri. | Admiral Commanding in Chief 1,2 lema: First, to increase our production able to put against the rest of the world make every sacrifice short of their own!
Admiral Commanding 4. fices that they were prepared to make, and shares an if there was one thing that would inspire Squadron 1,000 shares, and an able sea of breadstalls to guarantee the unlimited the forces of some 160,000,000 people, bat make very the final extinction of them to greater sacrifoe, it was the acri- man, or fully trained private of the Royal Icaf; second, to lay a foundation for they have not been able to produce their
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