South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-22
CANADIANS INFUSED
WITH WAR SPIRIT
Canadian EngliShmen EAGERLY
Fill Up Ranks as Relatives
Are Killed.

1-AGtTAN. Alberta. Canada. June %.
step over the line into Canada and
the war becomes a much nearer thing
II obtrudes itself upon the sight and
into the everyday peaceful affairs NJ
work and pleasure When Won are
waiting 10 take your train. there are
officers in the kings khaki" on The
platform and YOU learn that ~on,-
pany is about 10 entrain for rarp
ana. later, in August. they are 10 go
over seas to help nh the gaps around
Ypres- You talk TO the once and ana
that he is the last OF four brothers
10 follow the coIors and the other
three are already dead. Did Ire feel
II necessary TO add. himself to the
three? His widowed mother had her
doubts-this he did admIt-but 10 him
IL seemed the only thing TO do. They
had started and there was but one
thing to dO-to go through
AT the hotel where you stop there
is ladies orchestra and betwasn
dance numbers the musicians knit--so
do the young dancers and chap
erOns-always the heavy gray wooden
socks worn by the soldiers. From
your train you observe tnat at every
tunnel and bridge there is the khaki
uniformed sentry with his hayOnet-
tipped rifle. At every station and in
the country hotels are typewriter
news bulletins with the latest about
the war in which the Germans are
uniformly spoken OF as Huns" while
the kings troops are as uniformly
heroes. And at every big town there
is a standing invitation TO workmen
and citizens TO become heroes 10y din
ming the kings khaki and helping TO
make up the $1,000 additional Can
adams called for by the provincial
government Business and society
have Joined hands 10 encourage en-
listments. The other night at Cal
gary a beautiful banquet was given by
the chamber of commerce 10 the mem
bers Of the local Typographical union
who had announced their intention 10
enlist.
England Needs Artisans.
Enlistments in the industrial army
are also sought England has sent
out call to the provinces for ar
tisans. men to work in the shipyards
and the ammunition plants-and there
are two nem bers of the British par
Lament now securing the small towns
of the Canadian northwest I'm search
of skilled men who are willing TO SO
to England at agreed wages II their
expenses are paid by the government
What effect this may have on threat
ened strikes I'm England may he sur
missed. The unions probably VIII not
care for the government fostered COM
petition. even to meet a war emer-
gency.
The war is a long way Off-but the
casualties strike very close home. A
little band Of 2S enlisted from Cal
gary at the beginning of the war OF
these, Is are dead The Canarian
losses already total $4,000. Almost
every day the papers here carry long
lists of the killed. wounded and miss
ing. Among the injured, about every
sixth man is described as suffering
from poisonous gases. sometimes a
missing man turns up well or In a
hospital or is reported on good au-
thority TO be n prisoner.
II is often said that the Canadian
Englishman is more English than the
man born within sound OF the Bow
Bells. Certain it is that these Can
adam English are fervid and unwav-
ering in their war loyaley and each
battle casualty lis is stamping the
national spirit and the national
hatreds deeper into the hearts OF
Britain's American subjects. At first.
enlistment was something OF a lark.
the Germans were misguided and
bumptious fellows who must be good
naturedly chastised; Now they are A
people 10 be hated; a nation 10 be
crushed. and. If necessary, wiped out
in blood and slaughter.