Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1918 — Canada Gives Up Luxuries [ARTICLE]

Canada Gives Up Luxuries

Vancouver, B. C. —Here are a few signs showing what Canada is doing to help win the war by conservation ifn civilian life. The biggest result has been prohibition. The Dominion Is dry as the Sahara. The consumption of candy has been cut 50 per cent. Picture shows and theaters have shrunk in number to a marked degree. You can travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific and never see a piano, a phonograph, violin or other musical inBtrument offered for sale. Everyone is wearing his old clothes. '■ “Why should we buy luxuries and music when our defenders need bread and the Red Cross is begging for mercy fundsT’ the Canadian reasons. Travel is falling* off. The summer tourist is becoming rare. One of the largest resorts in the Canadian Rock- ‘ les has an average of only 30 guests.

with more than twice as many servants and 500 rooms. A street sweeper would be put in the zoo. He’s nearly an extinct animal. You’ll find him unloading ships and working in mines. And a water wagon —it’s in the has-been class. Canadians are chiefly concerned with getting enough to eat and wear. War’s influence is everywhere* Three of the buffalo kept by the government at Banff Springs broke off diplomatic relations and destroyed each other, in a vicious battle of horns.