Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1917 — CANADA SUPPORTS SOLDIER’S FAMILY [ARTICLE]

CANADA SUPPORTS SOLDIER’S FAMILY

National Patriotic Fund, Now Over $35,000,000, Gives Wife a Generous Living; The population of the United States is over one hundred million people. That of Canada one-thirteenth of this number or about 8,000,000. Canada has sent to the war over 400,000 men. It cost a thousand dollars to put a soldier in the field. It cost another thousand to maintain that soldier one year. That great loyal colony has already spent $52,5000,000 and has just voted to raise an additional $500,000,000. . Every loan offered in Canada has been oversubscribed. The government pays to the wife of every soldier while in the service, S2O per month. The Canadian Patriotic Fund is spent to increase this amount so that his family is properly cared for and the amount the wife receives is often as much as $55.00 per month. The above facts were taken from an article written by Sir Humbert B. Ames, a - member of the Canadian Parliament. We quote the following from the article: “The thousands of Canadians in the trenches know that there is nothing to worry about at home. It is be~cause~we treat theF people at home in Canada well that we have been able to recruit our Canadian army. “There is a ten-mile strip in France that is held by Canadians, where no German has broken through. The hearts of those of us who are left behind are on that ten-mile strip most of the time, and there are tens of thousands of homes in Canada wthere thev open the paper in the morning With a gulp in their throat to see if there are any of their loved ones among the two or three columns of casualties that are published every day. We know that there are twentyfive thousand of our 'best men lying below ground over there never to return. . ... “The more we spread this spirit of sacrifice over the whole Dominion of Canada, until we have every man, from the richest to the poorest, going without the things they want in order to make it possible for us to fight this war through to a successful finish, the more likelihood there will be of our ultimate success; when that spirit of sacrifice is universal, then only, then, will we be able to accomplish out purpose. - “Don’t you suppose the thousands who have fought and suffered have done so to protect the institutions of liberty undef which we live and to prevent them from being abused in the future? If the patriotic fund does nothing else for Canada and Canadians than to supply a ’hannel by. which the man who cannot fight can satisfy his conscience by making sacrifices in another- -way, it- will-be worth all it is coSting us.”