THE COPPER TRAIL.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16289, 13 August 1918, Page 8

THE COPPER TRAIL.

X 0 TUh Ot "XiU, VitESS." Sir, —As a (Juristcnuich citizen, I desae, tuiouuii tue lueuiuw ot your pu±>er, to oiler a suonj; pioiest agamst lau pOvUiiUi atutuue oy taia oi oai' CioiwitiL io«uiu to Liio Copper xrau. liiese uanowmifideuiy assert that tuis war eilort, aud ouvi'is oi a simu»tr uaiuie, sue u&eiy to luster tue gu-aibliiig spirit, Ul taxes coium.miiy, auu uiat Uio example tuey set is a uuu-mous one ior tue rising generation. It would be were it not uuiOi tunately true that educated Unristian ciuzuns could uare to liKen sucn an enterprise to tiie betting system in vogue ou trie racecourses or tuts country. The fact is, that 99 per cent, of tuose who subscribe to lunUs like the Copper '1 rail do not consider at all seriously their chances oi receiving a prize. In tue first place, tney know that the odds against them are a miiiion to one, and secondly, 1 beueve they are patriotic enough not to care a snap of tho fingers who wins the prize as long as they do their bit for the men now lighting for them aud for civilisation. In conclusion, I would say as a returned soldier that people cannot estimate what a blessing their gifts mean to the boys who are so far away from homo and kindred. They mean a great deal more than the pious utterances of some of our ministers. From a commonsense point of view, then, and from a soldier's point of view, I say '.'Every success to tho Copper Trail." — Yours, etc., RETURNED SOLDIER.