THE MEN WHO GO.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 16, 26 February 1915, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE MEN WHO GO.

A VILLAGE SKETCH. Our village, says a writer in a Scottish paper, has, of course, given its Territorial contingent to the service oi the nation. Its members come home on leave everv little while, and appear in church on Sundays, attended by proud relations, resplendent in khaki, ana, l mav add, with very different appearance from the pasty-faced miner Lad* who went off to their war stations a few months back. We have said very little in Drumnithock about this sudden upheaval. Scottish people are not apt to wear their hearts on their slwve, ?o w e have neither ranted hate son 0 s against Germany nor sentimental song for our own country. What lias been chiefly remarkable has been a serious yet matter-of-course acceptance of the situation from th e beginning. . Y'ft I think that, on Sundays *hen the Territorials come home there is pride, a certain reserved satisfaction n the village faces which regard them. tlv s business," said a mother not many days ago. no denyin' that. But there s no use crumbling for. ses he. the thm„ 6 » to be dune, and that's a' there is aboot 11 In this age of whining about t-lxe dec-line of national spirit that is perhaps not a bad instance of » S wLh i. "r, now around us-quiet and resigned ao , I, +ii village have eroVsted our workers m the village he man will be locked upo jj e j ias P vfn tS ofan uLspected heroism, of hxs cronies. Thrnk doul . o' his heid at a time. J a amazin , [rLS j m k-ht hae "«» a Sro U»," * «' th so '"' ! bitterness. a private The tll "i; ne ," has written »wki,e in g vho s ent him a iniuncto. S »»» >* fcter m kd '"" 8 Wifcm , «• *2* SS&gj^s* tiils so no more at presenv mair lik?. »* . fc k thfl P ' in a l diSh ; Of breaking down the battles smoke and tire ana process which is war ■ i ' mak( ,, CfeSSmi>.scrapp/to those at of the twenty, we know, will not fe-WSEs sSit hm ™i? •* men who are doing their share inty, too, with very little tuss. , 1 saw her a fortnight ago. She hail not heard then from her son for over five weeks, and, though her eyes filled with tean ; at mention of his kmi led and said with conviction He will that," when I said lie would come la And niw tho'baldly worded official statement has told her that ho will not tt home For those who do reti.n. there will b 0 acclamation no doubt, and jovful welcomes but also, sure y, is a passage whicn is of value at thi* **'" Even w>. a villager, picked out as a recruit and sent to the scat of ™. ,nav serve his count rv. maj ga-i ' * perience acquire a soul and a width horizon such as he had not o • and when bo return, after the war .» over, mav be merged ?.s before in h r.ative village. But the village .is tho richer for lii s presence and his ind-vu duality or personality is not leally lost." " __