CORRESPONDENCE.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2855, 28 January 1916, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

MAUIUAUE AND SHIRKING

TO THW EDITOR OF THE STAII

yi|. } —Tho publishod analysis of tlio reasons given by those unwilling to servo their country iv its hour of need show that a cowardly lot of skunks dwell in' our midst. For instance, amongst the small figures given there ure o.'} who won't. <j;o because they are contemplating marriage. Judging from tho number of wedding announcements tlml have appeared in the daily press throughout the Dominion since August; 1014 mid tho figures given by the Registrar-General during the compiling of the National Register many hundreds have married to avoid serving their country. If seems pitiable that our young women should degrade themselves to the level of ■ these Cold-feet shirkers and encourage stub a state of all'air.s. I maintain, sir, ihoy are not worthy of any consideration and .should bo shunned by the general body of bravo New Zealand women. To prevent this sort of thing . continuing pressure should be brought to bear cither by a Special Act of Parliament if tlio War Regulations oannot be made to cover such cases, where , by lor military purposes no recognition be taken of marriages already consummated since the war coiiimoiicetl, and that it lie also made illegal for llegisfrarn to issue marriage licenses to men now eligible for military service. The man who hides liis cowardice Ik , hind the petticoats of a foolish girl deserves no consideration at all. The II who admit they are afraid should be taken out and shot, for they are of no use to any country and certainly not wanted in any Hritish community. There arc 80 parental objectors, and as the authorities know them they should make it so sultry that tho said SO will bo only too pleased to emigrate to Germany and stay there.—l am, etc.,

FjMrntK Finer FeiHing, January 28. IHlfi.