THE: COUNTRY'S CALL
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —Today miy husband enlisted. We are very proud of-him and at the came time very sad. I have a small son lour years old. 3; mention this to explain why I am working. My friends 'say'my husband is foolish and ask;./hy he did not wait .for conscription: Why give up a position with £6 10s per week for a soldier's pay? Yes, Sir, this is what the people are thinking. Why doesn't the Government wake up? Conscript the men; also conscript'the money. Give everyone soldier's pay; then men! will enlist. Why should my boy be separated from his daddy when there are single men left behind? ; Age doesn't count. My husband is only 29; his best years are ahead of him. We were married in 1934, had two years on relief, and now when his country called he has answered, but there are too many men who don't mind how loud or long the country's bugle calls as long as they don't hear it.—l am, etc.,
1940 SOLDIER'S WIFE
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 18, 22 January 1940, Page 6
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176THE: COUNTRY'S CALL Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 18, 22 January 1940, Page 6
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