WHEN? WHEN? WHEN?

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2552, 28 August 1915, Page 3

WHEN? WHEN? WHEN?

Sir,—l was glad to read your leading article in Saturday's issue. Could you 1 not,'give a space for a constantly repeated query. When? in huge capitals,- till our Dominion wakes up to the imperative need of not losing an hour. I think a good month has passed since we heard of, registration in. Australia) and we have not got it yet; ■ Men who should bo in training and taking a definite part in unselfish actions are still devotees to Taces, sports, and carnivals, pictures, and, worse still, squandering valuable time and money in hotels.' It makes one's blood boil furi- . ously to see the unconcern of multitudes, who think that gambling at carnivals is patriotic. Sir, wo ivant. to secure all the crops we can of oats (it is too late for wheat), peas, beans, and maize; if - needs be, and it must be, all must be compelled ; to share the burden, whether'they like v it or not, and every man capable of bearing arms should bo in training at once, whether motheis like it or not. Have we no 1 vine to repeat "Cathage dclenda. l est," | adapted to the time? Goon, -Sir, till those in authority move' as they should. 'No time' is to bo lost. I'ardon me for making a suggestion. Make all the mayors of boroughs and chairmen of county councils, and the members of the councils, Imperial officers, with full and absolute powers to carry out instanter the behests of tho Government. Let them call in, to their aid all capable business men to be heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens, all endued with powers to do the needful —groclaim the Dominion under martial law. i Shut all hotels, as far as liquor is concerned, all race meet- ' ings, pictures, theatres, and let us act * as a people aware of the momentous is- * sues of the hour, and not bo dreaming in J fatal slumber. < j i\Vhat! With pipe and tabret, while , away the night I > tWhen He bids you labour 1 ,When Ho t bids you fight? a I am, etc., r FRED. H. SPENCER. !—