Show RETURNED SOLDIERS SOL DIERS WILL RUN 1 I VETERANS ALREADY I 1 I INFLUENTIAL IN GOVERNMENT Professional Politician and Profiteer Will Get Deserts By Jack Jungmeyer N N. N E E. E A. A Staff Correspondent VICTORIA B. B C. C March The returned soldier is going to run Cana Can Can- a a Hes He's es e's already started s Heres Here's how Organizing in two big khaki associations as- as associations the great war veterans and the older army and navy veterans i Canadian service servicemen servicemen men today wield more powerful inY influence in- in Y fluence than any other single group in the Dominion Almost half of Canadas Canada's able bodied bod- bod fed men ot of military age are or have a been in uniform Reestablished in o Jacc JUN fl Y RJ shop office and I factory these men are injecting the ex soldiers demands into civil affairs j with a punch that would surprise the average American SOME MAKE LAWS Their representatives sit in the provincial legislatures making laws They are given ear by by business men in determining in industrial in- in policies They are fighting fighting fight fight- ing the workingman's honest constructive constructive con con- battles And they have given professional politicians the toe of their boot All this with only a third of the overseas forces back home homeI Soldier statesmanship in the Dominion Dominion Do- Do minion thus far ha has been liberal and definitely constructive and has as played a big part In repatriation results Great war veteran leaders are actIng acting act act- Ing in the passionate belle belief that the returned soldier viewpoint clarified and broadened under fire and In the trench must bo be the dominant one in guiding their country It was from its membership that I heard most often during my months month's trip along the Canadian trail what can be summed up thus OUR CITIZEN SOLDIER MUST DE BE RESTORED TO THE JOB IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE BOL BOL- SHIES CAN NEVER MAKE A CONVERT OF HIM With that always in mind the combined combined com com- soldiery o of Canada is whacking the profiteer the industrial and po- po exploiter the red radical and the bonehead reactionary FOR DEAL We are going to have a square ideal deal for the Canadian soldier Ernest A. A Paige editor of the British Columbia Colum Colum- bia Veterans Veteran's Weekly told me as a spokesman for the great war veterans vet vet- erans for only in that way can the Dominion give itself a square deal We have come back clean with an unspotted record and with a I great determination to clean up the country politically economically and socially We are showing the citizens who remained at home and organized labor la- la la-bor la bor that the Canadian fighting man manis manis is neither a foil a bum nor a scab much to the surprise of some politicians politicians poli- poli I who hoped to use us as pawns As As a matter of simple justice we weare are organized to assure the returned returned re- re turned soldier that he and his children children chil- chil dren shall not be shoved aside by the theman theman man who stayed at home and his hift We are for and with those who kept our home fires burning who I played the game as patriots no matter matter mat mat- I ter where or what their work but God help the ones who didn't I Theres There's nothing timid about the I Canadian great war veteran lies lie's much more self than the I average Yank soldier who has thus for returned perhaps because he had hada I a longer period of battle seasoning lie He isn't begging or waiting for GEorge to do it wh n it comes to what he believes hes he's entitled to And he isn't going to run after any strange gOds or wave any strange fla flags s to get It i if Ive I've sized him up upright upright right after talking to hundreds ot of him private and officer FEDERAL CHARTER The Great War Var Veterans Veteran's association association tion composed entirely of men who served in this war Is established I under federal charter having chapters chapters chap chap- In practically ever every Canadian I city and town Wi with headquarters at Ottawa Its is no finally fraternal fraternal- fraternal I to look otter eve every material and I 1 spiritual need o of its members Its I political activities are by influence by the weight weis-ht o of numbers well organized organized or- or and with common id ideals als not or direct These amateur statesmen in khaki have already scored some notable victories for Canadas Canada's heroes and I their families How they will guide the Canadian ship of state for guide it they may will-may rock the ship on I I this side o of the imaginary boundary |