Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-10-28
Paul Super Writes Interesting
Letter on His Observations
Made in Montreal

to his friends OF the Ad Club, Paul
Super. who has gone TO Montreal to
help establish a Y. NJ c.. A. training
center, sends a letter that tells inter
estingly Of war conditions in Canada
IS the writer viewed them and Of Oh
seryaticns which Be took special pains
to sacure. In part he says. :.::....
"a promised that | would write a let
ter soon, and | think the occasion OF
my Yesterdays visit to Montreal viii
. gave me a subject that may be OF In
tereSt -... -.
Il vent TO Montreal to help estab-
1ish a y. NJ c, A. training center SINH
lar to the one that has made the Ho-
noluiu association famous. On the
way up In the train thought would
look around, upon arriving in Mon
treal and see if ! could see any effects
or signs Of the war II is we'll known
that Canada has sent over 100000
men TO the front. and wondered what
1sible effect this might have had in
city like Montreal. So | decided TO
ask the general secretary to put me
in touch with any signs of the war.
SOlOiGFS muCn III CNiNCiSC -
Let me tell you my very interest
ing experience in finding out that
Canada is indeed a nation at war. |
had not yet left the train when
saw a company of soldiers drilling on
a vacant space near the depot On
coming out into the street, saw sol
diers in uniform in about the same
number that we ordinarily see them
in Honolulu On pay day. will say
in passing that the Canadian soldier
wears a great deal more brass button
age upon his uniform than the Amer
lean soldier has thus far found neces-
sary.. ~ ... r. =. ~
THE next evidence of the war that
attracted my attention was the elabor-
ate recruiting paraphernalia. Painted
banners hung across streets, hand
somely printed posters hung in the
windows, quarter and half sheet cards
nailed on telephone poles, and adver-
tisements in windows called the atten-
ton of every man to the fact that he
was wanted at once by this or that
battalion Kitchener's Own and ad
of which am mailing you, being es-
pecially boosted. - -. o.
eomb-Proof Attracts Recruits IL b..
ION coming into one OF the main
squares, saw a large sandbag hut in
imitation of a bomb-proof and several
men in uniform standing about TO at
tract recruits. later saw number
of these recruiting stations in differ
ent parts of the city, though not all
so elaborate. 49,. 49,. ..: ~.
| when | got to the Y. NJ. c. A.,
the scarcity of men secretaries at
once struck me- Two women were
behind the counter, taking care of the
early morning business, filling in the
odd hours. First-class young men are
not readily available. learned dur
ing the day that the pressure on avail
able young men has become so intense
that a single young man who can go
to the war is made pretty uncomfort-
able if he does not go. Young ladies'
ere putting it up to their sweethearts
to go; and | understand that frequent
ly men are stopped on the street by
women and asked why they are not at
the front. .s.. -.-.. -. !. ~.
Rejected Ones Need Badges
Naturally, large number have
been rejected because of physical IN
capacitation There is some talk OF
getting out a badge for these men, so
that they will not be subject to the
repeated humiliation of explaining
why they are not at the front. The
wearing of the badge would show that
they had presented themselves to do
their Bit but had been rejected.
when | went upstairs and got into
conversation with the general secrez
tary, he told me that 1907 members
Of the Montreal e. NJ. G. A. had al
ready gone to the front; that his staff
of 80 had been reduced to Is by pres.
sure of the war Four of his stan
had gone TO the front as soldiers and
two in Y. NJ. G. A. work. OF the
twenty-one men on his board of dlrec-
tors, nine had sons who had gone 70
the front. some of whom had already
been killed. Let me say that these
nine included all the sons of the direc-
tors of the association who we're avail
able for military service. ...a.
81 forgot to say that as | walked
Eugle blowing and saw quite a body
OF troops crossing the street farther
up the hill. ... .a .: -.
Scotch Troops Seen +. -.
'sAt 4 O'Clock in the afternoon We
went out for a walk, and as we stood
in the Place d farms, in front of Notre
Dame Cathedral, we saw fine COM
pany of Scotch Highfanders going
part with their bagpipe band, and the
soldiers all in kilties. Walking one
block farther toward Nelson's monu-
ment we had to stand still awhile to
allow full battalion Of Scotch troops
to pass. They also were led by a
hagpipe band, or whatever you call it
know what some people call bag
pipe-but don't know what you call
the band. This battalion is called
The Foresters, and | understand cor
responds somewhat to our engineers
I'VE went around later to McGiil
University ! vas told that the first
class students had practically all en-
listed and gone TO the front The ath-