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Gerald Larkin (son of the High Commissioner of Canada), who has now become Treasurer
of the Toe. H." Dominion Executive established in Toronto. The Director appointed
is Major Frank Basil Edwards, late of the 2nd C.M.R., who lost both arms at Sanctuary
Wood in the terrible fighting of June, 1916. Despite the loss of both arms Major Edwards
is as capable and energetic a Director as a young movement could desire. A sportsman
to his lost finger tips, he still, with the aid of ingeniously contrived artificial hands, can
wield a golf club and a billiard cue with no mean effect just before his appointment he
made a break of 48 on a full-sized table. His work for the first few months is necessarily
pioneering, but most encouraging reports have come both from him and the various
Branches established.
In the boarding schools and universities there are already growing up groups of the
younger world, to whom the strange name is as familiar and as beloved as it was to their
brothers before them and while in Canada distinctions based on birth do not hold the
younger world apart quite so relentlessly as they have done here, there is no less need
for Community Houses in the big cities, and Branches in the more scattered areas, in
which the younger world may learn the price at which their freedom was purchased, and
that shortage of good men which is the deepest challenge to every lad to-day.
Lord Byng's five years are dedicated especially to boys' work of every kind, and if
boys' work is to be done there must be available in every place not old men but young
men, unselfishly ready to accomplish it. It is to stimulate this recruitment that Toe. H."
comes forward, for there can be nothing more distressing to the minds of our friends
Yonder than to think that those who have succeeded them decline their mantle of Christian
citizenship and voluntary service.
These Houses of Toe. H.," one of which is now contemplated at Toronto and another
at Vancouver, teach by their memorial rooms the lesson which no public memorial can
hope to convey. They take the need of the lonely youngster in the cities and convert
it into a challenge which he cannot gainsay.
Only a fleeting visit was paid to New York and Philadelphia. Yet here as well the
same task has been gallantly undertaken, and a small group in each place, full of determined
hope, is going forward under the Directorship of A. E. Koch (late of the U.S. Navy).
By a curious coincidence the first Post of the American Legion to be visited in the interests
of Toe. H." was that which holds the survivors of the 106th Infantry Brigade, who
fought in the summer of 1918 at the foot and on the crest of Kemmel Hill and Wieltze
Ridge in Philadelphia a group of old members from an American Field Ambulance,
then stationed at Poperingheand so the old kinship was once more renewed and the
new work begun.
Readers of the Ypres Times who care to look further into the doings of Toe. H."
can gladly be furnished (on application to the London Headquarters, 123, St. George's
Square, Pimlico, S.W.) with books and papers that will make what is here only an outline
a far clearer picture. Best of all, let them take their courage in both hands and visit the
Houses in London or the House at Manchester, or the Branches in their nearer neighbour
hood. They will find nothing pretentious but much that is unconsciously impressive.
It is not the habit of Toe. H." to thank its helpers, but simply to reward them by yet
further tasks. P. B. C.
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