VOLUNTARY SERVICE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 48, 25 January 1939, Page 9

VOLUNTARY SERVICE.

NEWSPAPERS’ APPEAL. FULL RESPONSE NECESSARY. (British Official Wireless.) Received January 25, 10.20 a.m. RUGBY, Jan. 24. The newspapers devote considerable space to the National Service campaign and most of them have leading articles supporting Mr Chamberlain's appeal. The Times remarks that his address was by .no means oi an alarmist nature, but it did make clear once again that the best, chance of avoiding war is to convince an aggressor that war would be a dangerous adventure. Commenting on the tact that the Government has rejected, lor the moment, any idea of securing ample organised power of protection through compulsion, the Times adds: It must not be thought that anything short of practically a universal response will suffice. The nearer the country can get by voluntary methods to universal training and universal service the less likely are both war and compulsion. The News-Chronicle says that the voluntary system must not lx; allowed to fail. "Every man or woman must examine his or her conscience and opportunities of service.