JUST A MINUTE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 200, 24 August 1937, Page 6

JUST A MINUTE.

WITH IRVrS" S. 0088. Xpw. with-flags and flowers, we decorate the gravee and honour the spirits of those who served in all our armk* since we had a country to defend —that is, we do so if we can spare time off from the double-header out at the ball park or the bridge luncheon at the country club. But to-morrow we must start digging graves for those who will be killed in automobiling .disasters over ii* week-end. How long will it be before well have also a special memorial eervice for "the multitude that fall victims to oar national madness for speed and yet more *peed? Surely not very long, when every year we destroy on the highways more live? than were lost overseas among the American forces during the World War: when the ghastly tally for every holiday reads like the casualty list of a pitched battle: when the maimed and mutilated who survive actual death would make a proces-sion of misery miles long. Hark! There's a stirring in the cemetery as replies* heroes turn over in their toml«s and a veteran of Bunker Hill murmurs to the shade of a soldier who fought at Gettysburg: "Comrade, after all. was it really worth while. in the name of principle, to a nation whose children are now trying to destroy tl-.eniielvp- in the name of pleasure *"— .X.A.X.A..