CONSCRIPTION.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—As the wife of an enlisted man who is preparing to go into camp next week, I would-like to say a few thing! in support of conscription. What ailt the men of this country ? _ Why the slowness in enlisting? We hear on all sides: “ Oh. I have a wife—children, I can’t go.” What an excuse 1 Did the men of the Homeland allow these things to keep them from answering their country’s call? It does not seem so- and are we not members of the same Empire? To many it does not seem so. No true wife would allow her husbhnd to make her the excuse for his staying at home. Why should one man leave his wire, home, comforts, and everything pis* and, for 7s a day. risk his life and everything life holds dear, while hi* neighbour, a young man as physicallj fit and equally able to defend hi* country,' stays at home behind his wife’s skirts. It is time conscription was brought in. Let some of these so-called home heroes be called that very soon.—l am, etc.. Conscription. ■ September 29. *
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Evening Star, Issue 23384, 29 September 1939, Page 8
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187CONSCRIPTION. Evening Star, Issue 23384, 29 September 1939, Page 8
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