"EXEMPTIONS"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 196, 8 May 1918, Page 6

"EXEMPTIONS"

Sir,—Tho discussion at Uie cowici : table L-tat week on the above subject-, was roporttd in Tue Dojunw.v, and 1have been waiting, ill vain, lor yoiu. editorial opinion of the councilsi <!«"-■ 6ion. I certainly tnink, air, that t» Mavor and his cotok'ucs arc to ncongrfttttlnred upon tlio stand tlie 3 p«o--poso to take with regard to unptyw* culled upon to servo tntir country. Hi* Mayor has, from the "ncen.etf of tho war, siiown plainly that he uno time for any man who regards his ciwL mwilion us his first consideration, to ha his remarks on tho matter are noU mate a Orifice that ho will ..ot mate himself. ComiLiUor Atkinson hit »he proverbial nail right, cr. the head wh«a he expressed the opinion that a ioi ■ y allowing their employers to.dotl e--dirtv work" for them Mid pro* t ieii •.nnenls Their flimsy excuse framed n "C firm, or the Dcpactmoni .™£ &£&£& B round3, hut arc possessed of fe«lhcio»t fan" sit light and let their friends pull, hem through. Heverthig again to theMayor's icorde: "What one, of these indispensable men dies? hn. I think the reply to that ri ry should of firms are atra.d to make a ttta s-iprilico or put themselves to a nu« Sveiience as was ptaiiar ?««'»»; the result ot a visit paid to a city.factory recently by the members of an. appeal baurd. There tie other "csFentiaf work<" that would eimo down with Srnn" the boards did a little morein ; vesti-ating. All that is wade to glitter n the e/o of a military app:n bomd "is not gold," but has been we 11 g M. by the operating app^t.-lam,^, rNo doubt there is :i growing impression that too many sine <.ie exeiup ions 1 ave been granted. It docs not follow, ovever, that because no r-nn is wholly indispensable the best course to Mow s lo exempt no one from militarj service. A stricter examination ot all chims for exemption is d sirable, and we belie" that at the present time most of the military survive Jmrds are exercising proper care in this Mpect.j