THE CASES OF THE SINGLE MEN
Sir,—ln reading your paper I notico more is a ballot of men with one oliild, and tnat there aro only tnough men in that class for two ballots. 1 suppose when that class is used tip married men with two children will be called. What I -would like to know is': When aro the medically fit sine die single wen going to be culled up? There nro quite a number of single men medically lit that should bo sent before any married menlet alone with children: We have hoard about tlia last son on tho farm but m a numb.-r of cases they can bo done without when the country is bo urgently in need of men for military service. On some farms there avo a man and his wife with three or four daughters old enough to help, yet a big strong man is tept at home while married men with small children are called up. Ido not say in all cases, as in some cases the parents' aro too old to bo expected to work, but where there are a father and mother with daughters to help it is a sin to leave single men and send men away from their wives and small children. There is one smnll consolation, and that is, how iproud the sine die men must feel to stay at home and let married men with children go and fight for tuem.
Prom fclie sine die single men we get to the C 2 single men. Have the C 2 single men all been rerexamined? If thovlmve, why is at one can moet robustlooking single C 2 men, working twelve hours a day nnd never feel it, yet they are clawed C 2? I have noticed repeatedly small, thin men, looking quite ill, go in camn, and big, sturdy fellows, classed C 2, still walking about. I shall be glad if yon will answer theso questions, and hoping that I have not used too much of your vnluable space.—l am, etc., SQUARE DEAL ALL BOUND. April 22, [The , "sine die single men" are being combed out,' as also aro the CI men. Our correspondent presumably is referring to CI, not C-2 men. Tho latter aro unlikely to yield any number of fit men if re-examined.]. ''
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 186, 26 April 1918, Page 7
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387THE CASES OF THE SINGLE MEN Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 186, 26 April 1918, Page 7
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