WAGING TOTAL WAR.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 249, 29 July 1940, Page 4

WAGING TOTAL WAR.

The country has given the Government a blank cheque for the purpose of winning tho war, writes a correspondent to the “Sunday Times.” It behoves the Government to use tho power thus given to it to the fullest extent. Workshops must not only work for -seven days a week, they must also work night and day. The main power of the country must be directed into war channels. Public and local government offices must be put on a wartime basis. Anything that is not. essential to the war must bo postponed (0.g., town planning and housing, however desirable in peace-time, must wait). The public transport services must give up their young male bus conductors and porters. The number of men under 40 engaged on clerical work who arc so essential that they ought, to be reserved is really extremely small. The time seems to have arrived when the tempo of Army training must be raised; and the sooner this is begun the better. Never mind about uniforms or arms. Hundreds of thousands of men trained without either in the last war and won undying fame on the fields of Flanders. There are still many unemployed, a large proportion of whom would benefit immensely both physically and mentally by a few months’ training, and those would still bo available (and far moio competent;) if required for industry.