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"Thoughts for Anzac Day."
In, the course bf his address at tin
iAr|zac ; Day gá(hc,'ríng on Saturdaj
night/the' Rey. ^Sinclair read a striking
^sla.teméiit contained in a circular issn
cd hy the 'Toowoomba branch of Hi«
Sailors'« and' Soldiers' Fathers' As-
sociation. The'circular,-which was, en-
titled "Thoughts for Anzac Day,"
read asifollows: "Should we remember
or forget that there ure"-"hundreds ot
unemployed soldiers-decent chaps
that cannot find work?-Should wc" re-
member-or. forget that hundreds of
widows and fatherless children suffer
want to-day because the war claimed
their bread Winner? Should we remem-
ber or forget that men who fought
tor our Empire-the heroes of- Î914
1918-are on the bread line because
1 their pensions arc inadequate and they
cannot follow their pre-war occupa-
tions? Should we remember " or for-
get that 59,330 of Australia's 'noblest
spns'died in" the Great War.'and theil*
.places arc'being filled by the Common-
wealth ' .Government with South
i ern '" Europeans' aliens at the
I rate ' of UL000 a year; so that
,hy Anzac''Day' 1930, Soùthern Euro
I pean ub'cns will taJcc'the places of our
own 'dead ..herbes üi his fair Austra-
lia?" '"î'he circular concludes with the
well known lines, "Lord God of Hosts
i bc with usjyet-Lest we forget, lest we
^forget.'' The' following .'telegram was
[read"from' Mr; M. J. 'Ri Woods, Presi-
dent bf ' thc Cairns branch of thc
;Sóldicrs' Fathers' Association, wjio is
hut present in Brisbane: "Regret that
il! health prevents mc joining you on
25th,'"but feel with you in mutual ap-
preciation of sentiments of Anzac, and
aliare 'thc hope that places vacated will
not be -filled" by undesirable aliens." .
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