FUTILE STRIFE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24636, 18 June 1941, Page 6

FUTILE STRIFE

,- INTERISAL' BICfCgRINGS I EUMINATKrff IMPEBATIVE #PLAIN- BY BUSINESS ; v r-O>.A.) WELLINiSJON, June 17. ■;,. The opinion that the war effort was -v. being hindered and not helped by the ;D& bickerings, offensives and counter--offensives that were constantly going *§. -on between different sections of the :»X-community was expressed by the 1 i president of the Wellington Chamber of' '•-Commerce. Mr R. H. Nimmo, in a state- • ; ;ment on cooperation in the waf effort<rrjat a meeting of the council of the %$i Chamber ■ to-cight.'. ~. Mr Nimmo em-- ; "'phasised the necessity for rooting out C\;emotions and prejudice-ffom criticisms V'v on economic subjects and.getting down ' ; to real facts before voicing criticism. :Vt "Criticism which is intelligently soundly based and wisely J-directed is one of the things which in -'this country, as well as in other parts WW the Empire, is going to make us stronger as a people," he , ; said,,. aR£ Mis "going to ensure that our body is brought to the highest Impossible pitch of ' efficiency ■ to wage warfare as an imperative Vand indispensable adjunct to the phy-, vesical combat of our soldiers, sailors, ; i;rand airmen. But I see nothing more ";. calculated to bring about a weakening vof the high pitch at which the: human* ■ and material forces of. this ;country should be employed in the present struggle for existence than the often biased and bigoted accusations that •re being bandied around this,country: as between"; section: and -section.', v AH Sections Accused -••■''•'""' W 6 see it in all types' arid varieties of organisations in New Zealand, by no '"means excluding, chambers of com- •-; mere*, and % have seldom seen a case •V in which theUwuslhg party has been altogether right arid altogether virtu- ;; ous. There ;is. far too much, party >: manipulation,'.,and too much, . if *;• not < misrepresentation. -K There, ate,-toct,* the most-:;lamentable proneness to wishful thinking and ne- "\ % tionr'too mujch; : b^«mipg.thevdther fel- '/. lowr:ior-riot the t" war' m ort.;' r and ..'too'Vfriucn: throwing -■■■stories see tooEmiieS'blsjningdf for not '•: ddihg'HKrbesrVirt .hisvjobfjby an em- ■■? pldyer, who..then 'promptly 4 eaves his " "■:■ desk 3 'for;-'a - mid-week r gblf..match or i - r - an; extended weekend;/ too much sectional ; v strife- land-?;- resistance by a -:'o worker who :seems to-tbmk that his .boss ; iis v making caV.fa>'P ]?o, l t . out °I :; .the war,;a-'profit*vifhich-..taxation and pri(!^'regulations'.make impossible, and i- jrtress <how;;very/essential this* community m .fpllbyr.the; principle ►jofiTjobtfiig .out ejnfotidnfarid prejudice ■ i rdnv our * criticisms on -economic subiwti, ahdietting town toihereal facts ; Aaherepce' ; tc-v^that-'/ principle, may ; show one side=to;be; rights pr, it may 'side; but it aught, to be thestarting "pointpf allrcrfticism. >'\?.'- : r- EnlrgyvWawtei ' "1 ¥ " "It seems v tp(be ,; of 'not the slight-- - *st importance,-:S)lacmg blame . for the sake of it, v unless ithere is £ real case for remedy: on the -basis of ascertained fact. We rareVall wasting too' much energy on chasing each other ; round a gorse bush,, instead of getting Von with the jobj"■.of rooting out the ■'.gorse/- .'•.■■-.: '•■' ~..': ;'' .- , v "I am siding with no political party in this statement," Mr Nimmo concluded, "nor am I interested in anything ebe than .to see that ; this-great little country rids itself of internal ■strife, which is a luxury ..<sl peace, so as the better, to be able >to screw itself up. to its maximum war effort."