DEFENCE AND DISCIPLINE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 73, 26 March 1912, Page 8

DEFENCE AND DISCIPLINE.

THE COMMERCIAL POINT OF VIEW. In his address to the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon, the president (Mr. IT. C. Tewsley) referred to the past year as having seen active operation carried oil and training camps held. Ere long, as the young men become accustomed to discipline and employers had readjusted the inconvenience consequent upon camp leave, the new system would naturally take ite place in the life of the Dominion. "Unthinking people and irreeponsibles adversely criticise the defence scheme," said Mr. Tewsley, "but its institution must eventually result in the improvement of the physique of the rieing generation, inculcate methods of dis- ' eipluie, and at the same time train bodies of men to be ready to protect the Dominion's homee and commerce. The Empire has enjoyed immunity from the possibility of national disaster through the horrors of war so long, that a false sense of security has arisen in the minds of some, and we find a crop of objectors from so-called' conscientious scruples declining to bear their share in the Empire's burden. Where would they be when in lime of war the feeding of the people became the burning question? We cannot ignore the fact that we are largely dependent upon sea borne supplies for much of the necessities of existence, and that our commercial life also depends upon having markets for our pi oduce. "The working population should take Ihis aspect to heart/ he concluded, "and ••heerfuliy support and insist upon the Defence scheme being loyally carried out m its entirety."