LEAVE FOR SOLDIERS
Sir,—I fully endorse all that “A Soldier’s Wife” writes in your paper of October 3. Our fit men are rushed away with very little ceremony, and when they are given send-offs in their districts it is those who are going to appeal when called up, or perhaps third-grade men, who are eager to take a lead to get them away. Sir, I ask you, are these so-called men to go on living in luxury and leisure while we women go on day after day dreading to open the papers, and also doing our best to bring up a family., single-hand-ed, or, as in my case, taking charge of a son’s wife and family of six. The wife is delicate and depressed and mine is not a happy home, no matter how I try to keep smiling. Big, ablebodied men who have been lucky with their excuses should be made to help the wives and mothers of neighbours and should not be allowed to make capital out of the war and their brothers’ sacrifices. I feel ashamed to know some folk who should be away and whose wives are boasting that they are third-graders or have to wear glasses. I say tax them again and again. SOLDIER’S MOTHER.
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Southland Times, Issue 24869, 8 October 1942, Page 3
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210LEAVE FOR SOLDIERS Southland Times, Issue 24869, 8 October 1942, Page 3
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