The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-06-18
Your War and My War
Without Trumpets or Elaborate Splurges Canada Ha
and Still Is Giving Her All to the Allied Cause
of Victory and Freedom
By PORTER EMERSON BRoWNE-of the Vigilantes

them. as war always awakcns. Bat how
!, would splritualizc and inspire them:
Canada sent $4,000 mrn--all volun-
;rcrS-to the war in less ,han eight
weeks from the day war was declared!
america to equal that record. should
have had $4,000 soldiers in France on
June l. 1917.
Canada has subscribed stl5.0nn.ooo to
Victory loans. This Of course. covers
,hrcc years. Rut Il prorortiorate SUP
<cription of Liberty bonds in America
would amount to $4,000 100000.
Canada has had to send To the firing
line many married men. This ncccsS'-
lated the establishment of the Patriotic
Fund us a means OF caring arbitrarily
for. the cases Of widows and children
which could not be SystcmatiZcd under
government regulation. TO these suosl-
diary war activities Canada has given
something over S55.o0Q.oon. In the
United States this would mean Sl.l"p'-
0o0. 900 these. amounts being. figured on
the actual basis that the United States
has thirteen times the population OF
Canada and twenty times tn" wealth.
But even more magnificent than the
volume Of the giving. is the spirit or It.
They have wonderful office statfs VOL
untary and unpaid. composed OF girls.
Of young widows whose husbands have
made the supreme sacrifice. they nave
given up their homes 10 help the coun-
try 1t makes one gulp little TO see
them. It shows one how much, how
very much. this Is a wonlan's war after
all It may be the men that do the
q - l,,t &c ha ON
behind. to work. and to suffer.
An old father and mother had scrinlp-
cd and sacrificed TO save the little bit
of money TO pay their way down 10 see
their sou-their only son--nff TO the
front to which SO many men were going
and from which SO few returned. They
rea chcd Montreal. this old man and this
cliQging little woman. They saw. now
Canada Wis giving. And they TOO. gave.
They gave the little bit Of money that
was 70 them 50 much. They gave up
their good bye 10 their boy.
There arc countless such cases. They
tell YOU Of Indians coming. down from
the wild countries Of Hudson and James
bays with furs won by months of labor
and hardship. to give an even half OF
ell they have gained.
But it is not. after all. that Canada
gives. It is that Canada is nation OF
givers. And that is why. after four
years OF war. one secs in Canada so few
signs of war. Canadians have their
burden. Grierous and hard and painful
il is. But when all help to bear 1t.
then 70 each one it becomes the lighter.
And that is why the gentleman beside
m" on the bench spoke SO quietly of the
only son that had been killed. II was
not that 10 loved his son less. It was
that h. loved his sons honor more. Can
ada knows. as England and Franco know
AS wc are beginning TO know-that
there are things that are worse than
death. Life upon Hunnish earth is
of these the first.
And 50. with quiet eyes. with firm
fine lips. Canada gives: gives without
pomp. or splendnr: without panoply or
vaunt. Her wounds are there. Bitterly
they throh and burn and ache, how bit
t"rly. Only Canada knows. But tEcE are
| IN her heart and in her scul-not upon
her face.
! 1t IS Carada'S war no longer 1t is
no longer EnGland's war. or Frances. or
| I,aly's. II has come to be Americas
| war: your war and my war. and the war
| Of thos" We love.
There is no end 70 this war in sight
| No one knows What Will come after this
war; what chaos: what disorEanlza;inn
what revolutions: what cataClEsms. So
| cinl POLITICAL economic. Eut nnc thing
| can we know. and that Suraly. That
never again will the old world be the
calm :Lrd gentle place that we knew and
/ dw"lt on before Toutnp barbar!sm with
barred faugs leapcd Upon its kindly
| throat.
We Will lose our mon in battle. That
wn cannot help. Boys that we loved
! will b.. drowned beneath tho sickly bel
| lies Of the German submarines. That
| too W" cannot help. The living wastage
! of war will soon begin 10 return 70 us
4 in all its ghastly horror: the wounded,
4 the manned, tho crippled. That too. is
/ hut tho prir" that we must pay because
h in our ignorance and our innocence we
/ allowed II nest Of maniacs to grow up in
Il cur midst to bc controlled by one scrofu-
i louS paranoiac whose word 10 them is
Il law and to US death and dishonor.
Il Copyright, 19ls.by Doubleday-PaSe Syn