THE LONG-THINKERS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3093, 14 November 1916, Page 1

THE LONG-THINKERS

In a letter, to a friend in Bendigo, Stan-aergeant P. fcsmitii, tormenv oi tho Benuigo. Independent, wnua: — "I see by the caoles to-day that the soldiers abroad are going vo nave a say in the Rererendum tliat is lo be taken on the conscription question, it that is so you can rest assured that we will have conscription in Australia. You need only listen to tho old eoldiors condemning the long-thinkers, iUf course; 1 am beginning lo call myself an old soldier now. It is iust about two years since I left home and joined the farces. How I congratulate myself on onlisting when l did. 1 cannot understand how men can remain behind. Mj word, I found it 1 was hard enough for mo to stop a month after the war had broken out beforo I enlisted. You will remember how I was desirous of enlisting practically right from the jump, when lily pais enlisted that was enough, it was impossible for me to resist any longer. I cannot for tho life of the Kaiser understand how these chaps have remained for two whole years without coming forward. There will be a day, and from all accounts m tho very near future, when conscription will compel them all to come forward. Long-thinkers, war babies, that is all they can bo termed,