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After more than three years of vigorous participation in the war, Canada has had to resort to conscription. That this should only now become necessary shows the generosity and enthusiasm of the Dominion's sacrifice in the European struggle. Inefficient and unreliable as the volunteer system is, it has produced a large army without much difficulty. New battalions have been formed, and old ones refilled, time and again, with men enlisting of their own accord, impelled by the moral obligation of patriotism and unselfishness. Unstintingly has Canada offered such soldiers as defeated the Hun at Vimy Ridge. Now, however...
...agony of the band is the one factor that prevents a regimental mutiny and how long they can keep down the surly private is hard to tell. What we want is heat and the only place to get it is in bed or in an armory; the former resort is forbidden and that leaves the armory. May it come soon...
...still unmoved, nothing we can say will have any effect upon them. To those who had the ill fortune to be absent, we must insist upon the importance of immediate action. The Y. M. C. A. is the one home influence, the one place of rest, the one amusement resort that the Army and Navy have. It is the soldier's oasis in the midst of the horrors of battle. The French and the Italians want the American Y. M. C. A. to take up its work behind their lines and it has promised to comply. The Russians need...
...native hearth,--to mix with people who did not cross on the Mayflower. Yaphank has been greatly over-estimated as a jumping off place for the Lower World. It is not a Palm Beach, but it is two hours nearer to New York than that far-famed winter resort and the lure of the Metropolis is something to look forward to after all. The man who has weathered a Cambridge winter can pack up his ba-ba in the old kit bag and sneer at the terrors of a Yaphank winter...
...time has come when the English and French have had to resort to reprisals for the air raids over undefended towns. Not until every other means of stopping them had been exhausted were the Allies justified in stooping to this policy, but the blood of their murdered non-combatants calls for action, not the action of mere vengeance, as would men of other races and other character, but action for protection. If the Germans have been carrying on their raids with the settled aim of keeping aeroplanes at home for purposes of defense, then reprisals will equalize the military advantage...