FOR OUR BOYS IN KHAKI.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2489, 16 June 1915, Page 3

FOR OUR BOYS IN KHAKI.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—What is this protest which Archdeacon Harper has launched against the Queen Carnival? I seem to have missed it. Did he truly term it "scandalous jollification''? And will you, Sir. tell me if the expression "Huimisli methods of ' raising money" emanated from the brain of the good Archdeacon or from "A Mother of Sons"? I sympathise most deeply with all who have loved ones in the firing line._ I have too manv friends and relatives there not to do so. I assure "Mother" I feel absolutely sick with anxiety _ when I take the paper night and morning to read the list of killed and wounded. Nevertheless. I honour all who are helping: with the Carnival to get money for our wounded heroes. God bless them I Yea, and may God bless each one who helps, from Her Excellency Lady Liverpool down to the equally loyal-hearted factory girl, and oven little boys and girls of six and seven years. Bless their dear, loving, little hearts 1 They understand, if tho Archdeacon does not, that it is only "make-believe fun." They realise that we must have money for our wounded. 'Yea, money given with a good heart, money that shall not be doled out as cold charity, but which is the spontaneous gift and acknowledgment of our indebtedness to those who faced the horrors of war (and such a war) sakes, as much as for the sake of King and country. ■ There are many women who are mourning husbands, sons, or brothers, but they are showing splendid unselfishness, hiding their grief, and joining heart and soul in the good work. If the Government can see its way to augment the fund which we have started, so much the better. In the meantime let us bury our sorrows, thereby showing ourselves worthy of the heroes who have, and still arc, facing such awful horrors for us. There will he time enough to weep. Never mind tho cavillers! There are plenty who approve as heartily as doe's GRANDMOTHER,