New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-02-16
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"A sympathetic sergeant stano-
ing by said "You have not. got
the tape in the right place. Give
him to me. Now throw up your
arms and blow out your chest. -
He said he nearly broke his chest
in blowing it out, and the SER
geant put the tape round in a
way that made him thirty-seven
| instead of thirty -four, and he was
passed.
He served five or six months in
the ranks and he did not break
down. He was asked to 60 into
a training corps and take a COM
mission, and he did so. He went
out to the front and fought fo'
something like nineteen months
in all the large engagements. For
three months of the latter time
his health was completely broken
down, but he did not give in. He
came back on leave and he was
told before he came back by his
commanding officer not to reutrn
again until he was well. He was
given the usual nine days, | think.
He came home and was taken
to see one of the first-class ply
sicians of the day. He was told
he never ought to have been out
in the first place. and certainly
ought not to go out again under
three or six months. A letter
was given him to take to the War
Office to that effect, and some
young red-hatted gentlemen-who
had never been out probably or
he would never have treated him
as he did-zwith the usual sniff
that so many Of them give, tossed
the letter aside and asked "How
long have you got' Two daysG"
He said EYES," and was told
"Well, if you are not well in NO
days come back again." He went
back in two days. and was thea
asked care not you well YETI?
He said No, and was told
"You can have another three
days longer. - There was a let
ter from a first-class physician,
Sir Thomas Barlow, but the Off
Ger did not even take the trouble
to read it. It got on the young
fellow so much that he said "
will not go there again. l will
go back to the front" He went
and soon he was dead.
That was my first son. was
inclined to say damn the War
Office!" That is only the case Of
thousands Of others.
Comb them out there for Gods
sake and the country's sake.
Comb them out from the bases,
the men who have been there all
these years; comb them out from
The east coast and the snug jobs
where society and other fav-
ourites have been so long. Comb
hem out from those places which
ire called funk holes, where they
lave been for SO long. II
When you have combed them
,ut then come. back to Labour, ,
ind if Labour thinks it has been
'airly treated it will rise to the
occasion, and Labour will say {
Yes, equal sacrifices. If I I
NOW anything Of Labour, if they I
re quite sure they are to he
airly and squarely treated, there I
will be no crisis in respect Of La t
,our. y
I desire to say this, too. that t
here is very uneasy feeling in
aspect of the military authorities i
hat they do not know how to usa, I
md do not know how to handle, Y
nd how to appreciate the fine Q
material that has been put into Q
heir hands. a
Never in the history Of this '
ountry has there been such he 9
oism shown as has been shown i
" these boys from our shops and c
ffices, our mines, our schools and t
olleges. Never has there been :
uch heroism; but they have not r
cen fairly treated. They have
brown in again and again, and
ave been over the ton five, six,
even. and eight times, and yet the =
len at the back wren they dol
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