The Canadian 123rd Battalion Recruiting Leaflet

 To the Women of Canada

In addressing these few remarks exclusively to the women of the country, it is to be understood that we have arrived at that period in the struggle where we realize the utter futility of recruiting meetings.

 The men who have as yet failed to join the colors will not be influenced by any eloquence from any platform.

The reason? The man we are trying to reach is the man who will never listen and the man who never for a moment considers the remarks as applicable to himself.

And so now we appeal to the women-the women who are the main-spring of all masculine action.

 In the First Division of the C.E.F. we swept up the young manhood of the country in the first enthusiasm-we secured the cream of the country in the men who flocked to the colors taking thought of neither yesterday or to-morrow.

At the second call men were stopping to calculate and hesitate. Since then the hesitation has developed into stagnation. Men who see a desperate winter ahead are joining the colors, and a few others; the remainder are deadwood.

 The reason? Firstly, the man who prefers to allow others to fight for him so that he may pursue a comfortable occupation, preserve his youth, be safe from danger, and explain to his friends that he would gladly join the colors could he obtain a commission-and yet take no steps towards that end.

Second. The man who is influenced by the selfish maternal appeal either from mother or wife.

 Third. The man who claims his business would go to pieces without him, but is satisfied to let others throw away life and youth to sustain that business.

Fourth. The others-call them what you may.

And now my Appeal to Women

You entertain these wretched apologies in your homes. You accept their donations, their theatre tickets, their flowers, their cars. You go with them to watch the troops parade.

 You foully wrong their manhood by encouraging them to perform their parlor tricks while Europe is burning up.

While Canada is in imminent danger of suffering the same were it not for the millions who are cheerfully enduring the horrors and privations of bloody warfare for the millions who stay at home watching the war pictures and drinking tea.

 Bar them out, you women. Refuse their invitations, scorn their attentions. For the love of Heaven, if they won't be men, then you be women. Tell them  to come in uniform, no matter how soiled or misfitting-bar out the able-bodied man who has no obligations, show that you despise him. Tell him to join the colors while he can do so with honor. And the day is not far off when he will have to go. The old mother has issued the last call to her sons.

 Make your son, your husband, your lover, your brother, join now while he yet retains the remnants of honor. Compulsory training is in the offing.

Get the apologist, the weakling, the mother's pet, into the service. Weed our all, and we will find out who are the cowards. Analyze your friends-you women-- refuse their attentions, and tell them why. Make them wake up.

GOD BLESS HIM THE KING CALLS! JOIN ROYAL GRENADIERS OVERSEAS BATTALION, 123rd C.E.F.