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Page contains a telegram (described in next image, 39a) and 4 news clippings. Subjects include: debate about the United States entering the War; a concert put on by the Soldiers' Service Club;and the departure of the 230th Forestry Battalion for the Front. Clippings published in 1917.
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- [start clipping] Why Worry? WHEN, perhaps, a few of our principal cities have been destroyed, it may then be time to take up this little war matter, possibly in earnest. Still, it might be well to wait until the war is over. To go into the war stern first, as the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt suggests, is, however, quite the proper thing. We have always done it this way. Why change now? Let us by all means wait until a surpreme disaster comes, and then take time by the hindlock. At present we have had only a little over two years' notice. And what is two years' notice among enemies? Meanwhile, let us trust in Josephus Daniels and God. God has helped Germany kill many of our citizens. Why may He not help us? [end clipping] March 1 - 1917 issue of "Life" [annotation in ink] [start clipping] Special to The Journal by United Press. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. - The dramatic plea of Austin Y. Hoy, son of Mrs. Mary Hoy and brother of Miss Elizabeth Hoy, who were killed in the unwarned torpedoing of the great Cunarder Laconia, demanding that the United States avenge the death of his oved ones, was received today by cable by President Wilson. Speaking as "an outraged American," Hoy demands that the United States "preserve its citizens' self respect." He is Not An Expatriate. The cablegram, sent from London, follows: "I am an American citizen, representing the Sullivan Machinery Company in Chicago, living abroad not as an expatriate, but for the promotion of American trade. "I love the flag, believing in its siginficance. "My loved mother and sister, passengers on the Laconia, have been foully murdered on the high seas. An American Citizen Outraged. "As an American citizen outraged - and as such, fully within my rights - as an American son and brother bereaved, I call upon my Government to preserve its citizens' self respect and save others of my countrymen from such deep grief as I now feel. "I am of military age, able to fight. "If my country can use me against these brutal assassins I am at its call. "If this stultifies my manhood and my nation's by remaining passive under outrage, I shall seek a man's chance under another flag." [end clipping] [start clipping] Weekly Concert. With Major T. E. Powers in the chair, the young girls of the Soldiers' Service Club in charge, and Lieut. B.C. Hilliam as the start performer on a programme of exceptional quality, the weekly concert at the Signal Training Depot Barracks last night was quite the best attended and most enthusiastically enjoyed event of the kind this winter. Fully 400 men stayed in barracks in spite of the temptation to wander forth and make a hole in the pay cheques delivered earlier in the day. Lieut. Hilliam gave some of his amusing piano sketches, Miss A.M. Hutt, Sapper C.W. Casement, Mr. W. J. Johnston, and Mr. G. Ker rendered pleasing vocal solos; Miss F. Westman and Sergeant S.R. Adamson did an unsual song and dance number; Miss C. Little contributed several humorous recitations, and the three little Williams children, Pinkie, Lorne and Nesta gave two numbers in which their singing and dancing abilities aroused the highest enthusiasm among the boys. Of great interest was a short talk by the chairman dealing with the experiences of the Third Divisional Signal Company at the front. Refreshments served by about thirty young ladies of the Soldiers' Service Club brought the evening to a close. [end clipping] [start clipping] LAST DRAFT OF 230TH LEAVES BROCKVILLE --- Lt. Col. de Salaberry Will be in Command, Several Officers Remain Behind. --- (Special to The Citizen.) BROCKVILLE, Feb. 27. - The last draft of the 230th Forestry battalion, comprising 5700 men under Col. de Salaberry, will leave here for the east tomorrow. Major Howard, Major Huntingdon, Capt. (Rev.) Desjardins and Lieut. Leggo Will remain here for the present. The battalion was organized in Ottawa and encamped near that city. Last fall it was brought to this town where it has remained in barracks since. [end clipping]
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