UNIFIED SACRIFICE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 114, 16 May 1942, Page 8

UNIFIED SACRIFICE

DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATED

PUBLIC MORALE QUESTION

NAPIER, Friday.

The subordination of selfish idealism, the engendering of a co-opera-tive spirit In each community, and the development of unified sacrifice, were urged by Major-General Sir Andrew Russell, when addressing a "public morale" meeting in Napier.

"We do not want morale for just the two or three years the war may last," he said. "We want it throughout our entire lives, whether we are at peace or at war. Morale can be calfed selflessness—the putting aside of one's own gains for the good of the community as a whole. How do you get morale? Ask God and He will give it to you, and if you follow this idea and use it you can face whatever is in store for you, whether defeat or victory, with high courage."

The Bishop of Aotearoa, the Rt. Rev. F. A. Bennett, said since the iasf. war there had been a decline in attendances at the churches. People had been making the pleasures of life their main ambitions.

As a democratic people, said Mr. jarnard, Speaker of the House of

. .epresentatives, we had been free .o differ, but to continue to do this, •ven when the enemy might be at he gate, was a luxury which we :ould not afford If we were to surrive as a free people.