DO WE REALISE THE WAR?

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 6 February 1917, Page 2

DO WE REALISE THE WAR?

A farmer entered a shop m Feilding and ordered a large quantity of a certain household article. The storekeeper replied that they were selling only hal - quantities owing to the difficulties of getting supplies. This made tic an mer very wroth. He could not sec why straightly to the other: “Sec here, it s about time you folks realised we are really at war. with a big enemy. You he should not get whatever he wanted Thereupon the businessman talked don’t seem to know that a war is on. You arc living on the fat of the land, and think that all is well with the rest of the world. I’ve just been reading a letter from my son, who has been in & the trenches in France these many months. You folks here get sugar, to spare, but my s on writes that they cannot get any sugar in the trenches. There is a tabloid substitute served out, but it is so difficult to melt that when they are drinking tea, coffee or cocoa they have to suck the tabloid till the palate feels the sweetness, and then swallow the liquid. And yet you farmers in Feilding growl when you cannot get a hundredweight of anything when you ought to be thankful to get it by the pound! ” He . was right as well as righteous in his wrath, too. —‘‘.Star.”