"And the war won and all! That's the grateful public, that is. It's all along of calling up these men of forty-six, seven, eight, nine, and fifty. Fathers of families, Mainstays of commerce. Little shopkeepers. Yes, and some of 'em grandfathers. Can you beat conscripted grandfathers? That's how they look at it up in the constituencies. What do ye want with grandfathers in the Army, they say, when the Boche is on the run? Every M.P. is getting ten thousand letters, about, by every post. It isn't succeeding, Andy's Man Power Act ain't! They want it altered, and if it isn't altered there'll be hell raised.
