The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1916. SERBIA'S EXAMPLE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 77, 4 July 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1916. SERBIA'S EXAMPLE.

Sorb-'a in her hour of trial has given a lesson to the »y.ii-H an J though defeated, battered and misused as even Belgium was, her army, rehabilitated and refitted shows deepest anxiety to be placed in the forefront of the battle. The Prince Regent's fam-, ous words when it was suggeiced that Serbia had suffered sufficiently and that her soldiers should leave others to bear the brunt of the heavy fighting and preserve their manhood for the rehabilitation of their race after Serbia has been won back to the Serbians, are well worth recalling. They were; "Of what avail will it be to perpetuate a race if wo are content to 1 let others do the fight mg? Ihe offspring of a Serbian who has been a hero is worth a hundred who, were J able to fight but stopped at home.' | Such a spirit shows a nation's ation that only out of supreme fice can greatness come, and it is Um?j spirit we must foster. The Saturday Review in a forcible article ap-j plaudiiig the passage.of the English Compidsion Bill calling for obligatory service of all men of fit bodies between the ages of eighteen and fortyone rears says: "In other words there' is to be, after more than twen-j tv-ouo months of war, an end in this, matter of recruiting of the policy or, funk and fumbling, of craft ant cowardice, which has so long shamed the country. It has been a policy that has threatened to set up m our midst with, an ill-effect on genera-, tions to come, a very large class of young men with a leprous taint upon I hem—men who have been encouraged Ivy the State to hide themselves se-, curely away from service, to stick like nits to their jobs, and to .seize aiuP fatten upon the jobs of others of a ( fit age and physique who have chosen | to put away their trades and go instead into the trenches. Had the miscalled Voluntary system—of which, virtually, nothing really voluntary has survived for a long time past —been *s*ki W(X snoul(1 nave seen the establishment in this country of a kind of third neither masculine nor feminine, and yet not honestly neuter; and this class, horrible ! to contemplate, would have far exceeded in numbers a million. Now I that danger to the health and manjhood of the nation will disappear." | In all these southern lands the same| J words apply; the time is one when jpunreme sacrifice must be made for the nation's very life.