Oct, 1.
Newsrarers recently out from home tell of a bazaar that was held in aid of the relief of necessirous ex-army officers. When men were wanted to break the Kaiser's schemes of world conquest, the country gave its solemn promise that those who went to the front would have their interests looked after; adequate_pensions would be provided for the bereaved and the disabled. No longer were there to be heroes begging bread or old fighting men spending their last days in the workhouse ward. Have these promis made at a time when the nation's fate hung in the halance—heen kept? When we read the utterances of some of the chief army commanders on the treatment meted out to demobiized officers and men We may well feel shame. Men were told their jobs would be kent for them against their return. In many cases they have been kept so well that the original holders cannot et them back again. Tommy sing gone from the country to stem the tide of invasion of the Hun and his allies, the profiteer and the trades unionist things comfortable for themselves at home, with the result that too often the man who faced death in its most horrible forms for our sakes comes back to poverty and discouragement, while the man who never heard the whistle of the bullet or the shriek of the shell accumulates comforts and corpulence and, like Oliver, asks for more. Usually he gets it too, for the politician is abroad in the land and he is unwilling to offend those who for the moment can make the most noise. Ex-service men, especially officers, are not so efficiently organized as the workers, also, as a rule, their pride forbids them to make a parade of their grievances and
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