GOODWILL DAY

Evening Star, Issue 22032, 18 May 1935, Page 26

GOODWILL DAY

WELSH AND DOMINION CHILDREN EXCHANGE MESSAGES [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 17. The following is the text of the fourteenth annual message of Welsh school children to be broadcast on Goodwill day, May 18 : “ From our playgrounds, schools, and homes, we boys and girls of Wales greet the buys and girls of all the world. Springtime has come once more to our little country, springtime with all its loveliness in trees and (lowers, and wc children are of the spring too, for through us the world becomes young again. , Shall wc then on this Goodwill Day all join hands in a living chain of comradeship encircling the whole earthP “ To-day wc would also remember with gratitude# those in all countries who have renewed life and enriched it by conquering disease, and who by their labours have brought health ancl happiness to mankind. Science lias made us neighbours ; let goodwill keep us friends.” The following is nhe reply ol the school children of New Zealand:— “We, the 270,00 U schoolboys and girls of New Zealand, answer the goodwill message which comes to ns over the rounded world from the far-famed land of Wales. To you girls and boys of Wales and to all the children of the lands that lie between we send greetings and goodwill. Spring is blossoming in Wales; here autumn is drawing to its close, but neither season nor distance can separate us in our longing for iho peace and happiness of all mankind. Like you, wo remember with gratitude those men and women who, tor these things, have, worked so well and gone their ways. Like yon, we also honour the wise and skilful of many lands whose patient labours in medicine, science, art, literature, music, government, and all other forms of useful work, arc doing so much towards making the earth a more beautiful homo for ns. On the broad river of friendship our canoes arc launched. The haven may he far, but we are full of hope, (jnrs is a glorious opportunity. In what spirit wo should go forwards yon boys and girls of Wales have finely shown.”