1 defeat the Nazis— Wetheir own boys home. the oe never belonged to lela! evel before he joined up, jug mee never had a steady Smyf™S©28, he read a lot of ny M7Spapers supplied~free agae>, and a lot of tripe Is fide unions in the ubi-. the Readers Digest. Now “is home he intends to ak wise he’ll join a trade Sug br his own advance- mn ‘d protection, and to # ships, guns, munitions @ pment rolling across § SBic—to his 30,000 com- a fo are going to sink la Px sun and knock the ca iis for a loop. Joe was ~~ the army—and he’ll re -1 0n at home. Already nid the Canadian Le- nite @ protect his interests 1 <-serviceman, and he ane application to take - £8 in welding under the ay at’s vocatienal train- 'd raz am for veterans. Team ed the job overseas, and © fas Joe fits into the {=m at home he will tie there are ‘stinkers’ = -—men who used pull LE ut of the army—and f,. men who preferred a) .bies rather than risk a *ks in the fight for .W2n1t there were stinkers “se platoon. The civilian 8 Jed butter, or bought ee the black market— * be matched by the in che-varmy = who: dodge si e of fatigues, sell ra- E jewellery from star- Xpeans for a song or » th all-gotten currency. + hard facts—but they Ee S 8] ~@ d be just as easy for ‘’f,ans to pick out rot- Fie army as for Joe to 4 mn out on the home -t in neither case do <8 vy exceptions tell the 2 -y of heroism, hard . lf sacrifice and con- = achievement. Gd ime, apparent callous- is ot peculiar to Canada Ap, t is true of the USA S ain, and was true of &, before the invasion. = ritain for imstance: “0% ldiers who were sta- @ 1 Brighton during the {i Sars of reverse and un- are now amazed at gti ge. Trains arrive every m ates, to disgorge thou- _@ of passengers. The h@ pubs, cafes, fish and stls, cinemas, dance halls Eaters are jammed to dG on. When the Cana- ws=ere there the beaches > osed off, and heavily a and Brighton was a sida city. How, a lot of our 3:0 go back there seem “ee out of place, because I ‘© no longer the main ron a small stage—but m a larger stage. They -alize that most of the = in Brighton are Lon- #swho went through five AS blitz, blackout and iding, and that a big per- Z= of them carry, beneath = appy exteriors, a men- fwature of one or more who aes rver come back. This is § irst earefree holiday in A EADVOCATE—PAGE 11 ‘When G. I. Joe Comes Home Continued years, and they -are out=to make the most of it. Then, many of these same va- cationers have been separated “from their loved ones for four thoughts are with them rather than with strangers. Others have men in the far east, and a holiday at the beach, even if only for a day, makes it easier to cary the load of an- xiety for their safety. @ get back to our Joe. He'll O T soon find a lot of changes. Dad, mother and sister. have - got along quite well -without him. Dad dug up his old tools and broke his retirement by going to work as a carpenter. Sis went to work on the swing shift at an aireraft plant and became a union leader. Joe was surprised to find out that his shy, sensitive sister had be- come a popular organizer and a Well-known platform figure. Just before Joe got back she joined the Labor Progressive Party, and she wants him to join—but Joe wants to wait and look around. ‘I know we need a change, Sis—but if it’s as good as you say it is—really working for the people at home and forthe _soldiers— then I’m sure to join it!” Then the kid brother. He was just starting High School when Joe left. Now he’s work- ing-as his: dad’s -helper,.; and pulling down big money—but he ean hardly wait till he’s old enough to go active—having to content himself with being in the Reserve Army. And then there’s Mom, dear old Mom. She’s busier than ever now, with three members of the family working and with Joe just looking around and getting used to civvy street. Meals have to be cooked and lunches made. Day and night, some one is always coming in or going out. Shopping is more of a chore than it ever was and SGT. JACK PHILLIPS there always seems to be an- other wash to do. On Sundays, the car sits in the garage for lack of gasoline —no more trips to Mom’s sis- ter in the country. On top of all her other work, Mom knits socks for the Red Cross, collects clothes for Rus- sia’s homeless millions’ and minds the children of several young neighbors who like to go out together once in a’ while. A great gal is old Mom! The best, says Joe! Of course, Joe’s girl friend -comes over to help once in a while, even though she is usu- ally very tired after a long day on her feet at the children’s wear department. It wasn’t so long ago that she and Joe were exchanging rather bitter -let- ters because she went to dances once or twice a week, and be- cause she allowed some of the boys to take her home once in a while, and invited them in for eoffee. Now Joe realizes that it was selfish of him to expect any different, that she wait- ed faithfully for him, and that ‘all he has to deo to be number one man forever and a day is apply himself. As Joe gets around he finds that many old faces are gone, some -having passed away, others having moved away. Visiting the dance hall and the pool room he sees few fami- liar faces, but many new faces. With a shock he realizes that a new generation has risen— the bobby sock’ generation. While Joe has lived two lives, civilian and military, they have lived onfy one life. They have literally grown up and ma- tured in the hey-day of war- time expansion and full em- ployment. Almost with envy, Joe re- gards their well-cut clothes, healthy features and joyous zest for life.» . “Just think,” he mutters, “when I was their age I was riding the freights, looking for work.”’ a WON’T be long before Joe realizes what a good job these kids have done—what a good job the entire home front has done. Not only have they provided the sinews of war for Canada and the Allies, but they have paid for the war as they went along, paid in taxes and in millions of dollars worth of war bonds. . : After Joe bought a couple of pockets of cigarettes at 18 for thirty-three cents, paid a 25. per cent luxury tax on the watch he bought for his girl and found out what a big slice the government took out of dad’s, sister’s and the girl friend’s income, pals overseas: “Don’t believe it’s all honey and roses over here. ain’t what it used to be. You have to pay for the war—and I do mean pay!” Multiply Joe by several hun- dreds of thousands and you have the problem of rehabilitation in a nutshell. Life at home will ° \ he wrote his A dollar. of feel different at first, but they’ll soon fit in. Gainful employment, oppor- tunity, training, homes and social security: here in a nut-° shell is the solution to reha bilitating our ex-servicement. ~ Gratuities, as welcome as they are, don’t last very long. Only in a prosperous nation with thriving communities will there be security for returning servicemen. . EIN THE army, from the very advanced patrol to the hind- most echelon, all work as one team, with one objective: vie- tory over Nazism. Now that Nazism is crushed in utter defeat, we have a three-fold task to perform: 1. To give every material and moral suport to our forces in the Far East and in the army of occupation. 2. To maintain our wartime level of production, provide employment for all able bodied Canadians seeking employment and give all the financial, vo- cational and personal assist- ance necessary to adjust our new veterans to the way of life in the new Canada. 3. To work for the strength- ening of political and social de- mocracy at’ home, to promote the generous’ far-sighted ac- ceptance by the nation of the Teheran and Crimea concept international relations and to make Canada as great a na-° tion in preserving the peace and ‘building a prosperous world as she was in winning the war. _ 4 pests a This is the only true road— for the men and women return- ing from the home front, and for those who served so splen- didly on the production front. If we do not follow this road, . then our dead will have died in vain. Let us be on our way. The highroad to progress is long and has many hills—but -as all soldiers know, a hike is never too hard if you’re all in step, and if you break the mon- otony with a song. So let us go singing on our: way all to- gether—for a better Canada in a world free from fear. c REMEMBER ~ TSURE I DO! YOURE ¥ GOOD MEMORY, Y | IM FINISHIN’ ITS BEEN YY. p=aA ME, JONES? IPETE,THE RAT WHO JONES! 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