The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-10-29

meyer adequately describe their noble
 achievements.
 It is not that less need of honor
 be paid to them for which I plead,
 but that a fuller need, of honor be
 accorded to the British regiments
 which, after all, are bearing the main
 brunt of the struggle on the Western
 front.
 We went children yet unborn when
 they read of the Great War not only
 to shout Bravo, the Dominions! Hur- rah for the Irish regiments!" but
 What glorious victories were achiev-
 ed by the lads of the English towns
 and shf-esi"
 we read their names in the casualty lists, and we are saddened; but we
 know that every name is like a. flower
 in the chaplet of national valour.
 made a guess. I put my thoughts bluntly. Freedom is given the war
 selves'' on the bravery of. the Domin-
 ion soldiers in order to prevent impa-
 ttence being expressed in Montreal
 Sydney, Wellington, and Cape Town
 that the world is not acquainted with
 the part their men are playing in the
 great drama of smashing the Boche.
 And the public in the United States,
 in Germany, even in France, are not
 infrequently in parts of She world
 where the Union Jack flies, is inclined
 to get hold of the idea that the big
 events are given to the Colonials
 whilst our own fellows are given a
 subsidiary part , This is wrong. It is giving a false
 aspect. It induces people at home to
 wonder. It causes the men to com l plain to their friends. They do not ! .>s- l.. , ors But they do feel more than 8
 little sore at the general scanty ac-
 Acknowledgement that is allowed to be . made of the triumphs they have won. It is good for the High Command
 to be polite, to be generous to the
 soldiers of the Dominions.
 It is a grave mistake for hundreds of thousands of gallant Englishmen to get it into their heads that they , are not being appreciated.
 } What stories could be told If they were allowed to be told in full, of the } Wiltsh1res, the City of London Ri- t f1es, the Highland Light Infantry, the
 lLeicestershires and the Lincolns. the 5 Gordon Highlanders, the face of the 7 battalion raised by Jthe Glasgow Stock Exchange-I mention but a few cases which Jump to mindl The king has been visiting the
  Majesty will be aware of the stories
 of industrial unrest in that region. : Some folk have drawn 'the nasty con- l clusion that the engineers engaged in f ship building within the Glasgow area 5 have been inclined to pacifisrn. Not SO.
 . There Is not Clydeside. worker 3 who has not had son or relative in l the arny-for many of them are . dead. There is not a woman whose
 leyes do not often grow dim in think
 ing of some bright laddie she will
 never see again. There is not a girl
 munition worker who has not g \ brother or c sweetheart lover there ' z These people, and millions of others \ throughout the land, want fuller &C., \ counts of what their boys are doing
 They are proude of them but they \ want more details. There are men Enghshmen and Scotsmen, hundreds o fthousands of them, at the from
 today offering their all for patriotism
 and poor pay. There are man men \ who have been in France for two years and have never had a days leave. They do not get the pay which E the Colonials receive, They do moi get ten days leave every four months like the Australians. They are out there stubbornly doing their duty \ They are bearing their full share
 their full share of the fighting. And | know they would like the folk al \ home to have the warm g'ush of joy in their veins by reading more about what they are doing, I say the majority of us do under. stand, do appreciate. But history is being made. Generations to come 8 will know more about the war ther E we do.
 4j These are the days of heroisn rather Ii than heroics, and we know from the Eonors List of the long line of mer who have dared and won.
 M But this is not enough Greater than individual daring is the triumph of comradeship In action.
 We admire the man of our coun try who goes forth and, reekoninl not the cost, shows conspicuous ceur ! age in the face of the enemy; but tn ! joy is greater and deeper when W know that our own county regimen
 has wrested a long-he1d ridge iron the foe-hundreds of men who vii
 never have any ribbons pinned upol
 their breasts by the King, but tru and unwavering in the accomplish ment of the task to which they wer set.
 The flame of individual va1er in spires, but it is the glow of nagnifi cent esprit de corps which carries GU men over the trenches.
 Let the authorities at the War of \ flee decide to treat all regiment alike. Let nothing be revealed whie n will assist the enemy. But wf1e English regiments do we'll let the wa correspondents give just as much ref to their pens as when describing he, the Canadians do well.
 |A It may be that those who prehib Hand it is prohibition and net neg N ligence on the part of the war core spondents-a1iusion to British regi nents during certain engagement think our own men are not made ( the stuff which needs tfumpetint That, in essence, is true. It is how ever, human to enjoy commendatiol And do those in high commap \ reckon <he feeling of men who hay been through the fire of hell to d q what they were ordered, to find, whe a \ the home papers come out, that the1 ! is nc mention of them, but that thel fH is a brilliant half-colunn devoted