NATIONAL SERVICE LEAGUE.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 2 March 1916, Page 2

NATIONAL SERVICE LEAGUE.

— ry FIGHTING MEN FIRST. APPEAL TO SCHOOL BOYS AND BOY SCOUTS BOYS, many of your brothers ',' have done the best and noblesta man can do to-day. That is, -* don the khaki, and gone to fighyft^ the brutal Hun and stop him frorflk/< getting to New Zealand to rums^ your h,ome and future. Many"-'/; will fall in this fight for freedom, > T ': and many will come back ruined 'T-, in health and disabled for Hfe.|||| Now, you cannot go to the fron^^ yourself, but you can show tha^K you don't mean to forget oury* disabled men now, and in the "<• years to come. Two ladies "-were, \*i talking in Wellington recently V| and a disfigured soldier was '^J. standing by. " Look," said one '& lady, "that poor man is" dis~ *V figured for life." The soldiei ,J overheard them and "-repliedl Ty, '' No, madam, I am not disfigured, lam decorated." That's it, boys, /C^, every disabled soldier you meet is decorated, fighting yoiir battles, '*f and, boys, we want you to ''J promise to give every disabled "r man you meet a smart salute. "« Will you do it? Let's show the "J< men we don't forget them. Why \ the King himself sent a message to your brother at Gallipoli, and *l said they had made a name for Ji themselves, and their deeds would never be forgotten; We won't forget their deeds, and we won't forget the men that did ' them. ■ ; Now, boys, there are a lot of homes in your district where the man is away at the front. Will <j you drop in and see if you can s .; run a message, chop a bit of , wood, or do any odd job? Let's c show the people we don't forget (never accept payment for -^same, will you?) If a disabled soldier > starts a small business in your i« town, get your parents to -buy \\ from him, and when you go to buy anything, first try and buy '- goods made in New Zealand. It will make more work in this \ your own country, and if you' ki cannot buy New Zealand goods, .'; buy those made within the British ,\ Empire. Good-bye, boys, Don't 4 forget to salute the disabled 3 soldier! National Service League, i F. Norris, - \ Hon. Organiser, Masterton. 1 < !^^ ' ( 11