Photos and correspondence

You know, the public wanted to know what the services we were doing a lot of the times I think and so on a number of occasions, the army would send in someone to take pictures of what was going on in camps or they would, local newspapers would take my picture with perhaps a patient from St John’s or a patient from Montreal and it would come out in the Montreal paper, the St John’s paper and the interesting thing was about that, I mean your picture would appear and you would hear quite a bit about it but I’d have letters from people I had never heard of before. For instance, there was an awfully interesting letter that was written to me from a little lady that lived in a place called Windsor Mills in Quebec and her name was Mrs. Clifford Bilta and she said, “My war effort is to write to any service person that I see has their picture in the paper and tell them that I would like to correspond with them, that they are sort of like sons and daughters and this is my war effort.” So I wrote her back and she told me she had something like a hundred and fifty young people that she wrote to because she saw their pictures in the paper. You see, I think Canadians were terribly loyal and they were very anxious to have some hand in the war effort.