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Observer, Volume XXXVII, Issue 44, 7 July 1917, Page 14

In a letter received by an Australian journal "a mother, whose only son, if living, is in France/ writes: "There are, I know, many farmers whose sons .aire still .-safely and comfortably working at home, and profitting by the enhanced prices of their produce—high prices due to the war; while others are growing poorer, their farms becoming unproductive through their dearest and best produce, their noble sons, giving up their comfortable mode of living to endure the unutterable horrors of this awful war. Some are for conscientious, health and other reasons thus enriched by the war, while others have the added burden of extra, work, monetary loss and mental agony of suspense regatrding their boys. Surely the former might add a little to their light load by faking a little of the latter's in the form of assisting in putting in and taking off crops, repairing fences), digging out rabbits, shearing, etc. In the United States and Canada, I know such 'working bees' are common, and they not only materially assist, but 'cheer and encourage, those who perhaps were helpless and sinking, mind and body under their heavy lonely burdens."