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.. - RECRUITING.
CAMPAIGN NOTES.
The Perth recruiting officers' engagemenrt,
for the week are:-fuesday (today), ad-"
dress. the Progress Association. South Kal?.
munda; Wednesday, rally at Beenup;
Thursday, rally at Subiaco; Friday, rally
outside the Perth Railway Station; and
Saturday, attend the benefit concert afi'
Lion Mill.
lest night Mr. Graves (recruiting offies
;for Perth) attended a rifle clubs' meeting Ok'
•Greenmount.
Miss Brockway, of Messrs- Elder, Shea
ton, and Co., Northam, daughter of Mr.
`Brockway, one time Town Clerk at Clare
mont, has patriotically offered her services
to the recruiting officer, Northam. Miss
Brockman says: "I am not a man, and
cannot go to the war, but I do want to.
do my 'bit' here." And now, in her spare
time, she is doing the whole of the typing
for that office. '?e action of Miss Brock
way is very commendable.
The straw that shows how the current dt ';
disapprobation will engulf the man wIo
places self before couniry curiously enough
comes from the United States of Americs.
The Gorvernor of the State of New York
has disallowed Darcy, of Anstralia, the
right N fight for a valuablo purse .within
the .jurdiction of that Eastern American
State, and the reason given iq that he fled
from the national- fight, to engage in' a
pugiliqtic encounter. After the war the
action of the Governor of New" York State
will; be -an everyday affair in every Au
tralian State. Those who fought will have
preference; those Rho refused to fight will
haveto get out, and sacrifice the very
nthings which they remained at h?me to se
cure. In the -national economy there will
be no room, no plade of honour, for those
who thought so little of their country that
they woeild not fight on its behalf, or to
much of their own comfort that they would
not don khaki in a moment of nationsa
necessity.: In those post-war days,the mere
lip patriot will. seure short' shrift., nd
thbse only--f - the eligibles-who have
served the. country in its necessity will hb
entitled to. honour and credit. The national
6onscience will bie a . weapon of offence.
Now is the tay to enlist,
The recent visit to Dalwallinu of Mes
Gaediner and Underwood, M'a.L.A., was re
spobsible for the - enlisting of four a.
cruits:
"B" writes: '"wo thousand three h ,e
dred men are required per month to keep :
up our Australian army at the front to ita
full, strength. The heart-breaking fact is
that in the month of January only tOb
smen enlisted. That means that 1,700 men
who shoulds have done so, prictically re
fused to serve their country, even when
=directly appealed to. In the face ofthese
discouraging figures' I sometimes wonder
'what I can say or do to make men rea",. .
list how urgent .is the need of men. . I
wonder whethe. all appeals will fall on.
deaf ears, as the soul-stirring appeals of
Lord Roberts for. years, fell on deaf ears
ears that must now tingle at the. thought:
of what siff.erigs our country would,have .
avoided had his' words been heeded, -ad" .
our men been ready to fight, and re-dy
in suhotn-umbers that Germany would have
hesitated to become the aggressor, or to
provdke' war. - Tfre, England, thanks to, ..
Lord Xitchener,?sas raised 'an ;army of - "
5,000,000 men, bin had those' 5,000,000.men
been ready in 1914 -history. would he Imad "
a' differnt tale to tell.- Now, in 1917
Australians are being just as earnestly told.
that men ase wanted to, win the war. Will
they wait another three years before they
heed- this appeal? . Will ithey wait till
victory may be ,lost .to us, and will they
wait until the enemy 'is in a position to
shell our. coastal towns, or to make Anus
tralian men 'nd. women work. under the
Whip, or a$ the point of the bayondt, as is
n, the case .of the unhappy Belgiassi
of Australia, it rests with you to pre.
vent this, and you-are only asked to do
what -every other dominion, is
doing without being asked. Are you le
intelligent than they? A re you less cour
ageous? Are you leas a part of-;te Em
psre? Are you less loyal and hqnourahble
than they are? Perish the thought-I feel
sure it is only want of. thought
or laiinem. I am sure -.that once
you really grasp' the idea, that it
is each one of onu-not some other,
man-but- just, YOU that 'is wanted, the
recruiting offics will bhave to be enlarged
to receive all the men ,who will volunteer.
as brave'men should: 'IThere are todky
in Western Australia 6,000 single St men
who haved not /olunteered. Are you e-.
of these? Are you content to remain is
crowd? Thinkl Had you not better
loin up at once and persuade your own
mates to do the same?P One hundred and
fifty men form ' unit, which can be kept
together in camp and in the field. Four
<or five 'men: with sinitiative could in each
town or district get: this number together *
in a ,week. if they were to exert .them
selves: What' women .can do,.we know.
Women now are.aaked to join the 'Win the
War lague' to assist in promoting loyalty
and to impress on. their menfolk that to
win the' war every,. man is wanted." -
A successful recruiting meeting was held
in the .Kellerberrin',Agricultural Hall, 't
being presided over by Mr. G. Melellan,
chairman -of the local roads board. Mr.
E. C. Keyser, recruiting officer for, the
Northam; centre, said that 64 young men
'had 2enlisted from his district in three ,
weeks, and he hoped that Kellerberrin
.would help to swell the total, asmen were
wanted urgently at this supreme crisis in
the hitory 'of the war. .Mr. Barter,
M.L.C.; mde an earnest appeal. to those
present to 'assist the gallant Australians . r
the front. The mother country need4ed .
the; assistance of all her children, and it
was only right that Australia should ree
5Ioni cheerfully, aswe were living'in com
foit, and aecurity bwing to the proweas ~f
British arms on. land and sea. There
-ps ugent ned for irecrumits to reieve the
men m the firing line. All those who
conld not enlist should do their utmost to
help the Federal Government by-sumbscrib- ,
iny'to -the war loan 'or by gingi some
tlinig to the Patriotic Funid. -Aftyr
other speeches had heen delivered a eadi f
responded. A collection in aid of the -
Patriotic'Fund realied £9. and a number
of donations were promised in the .all.
(I'rEE STATES.-,
.SOUTt AUSTRALIA.
Adelaide; March 5
The recruitin , igres last week were
118 examined, 9A accepted. To-ay (Mfoa*
day): 31 examined, 22 accepted.
, . VICTORIA.
Melbourne, March 5.
Today' 53 men volunteered' and 32 were
aocptea.. The. number i. recruits obtain,
e4 last week was 395, which is the highest
total since the inauguration of the pr.
sent campaign.
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