VOLUNTARY SERVICE AND CONSCRIPTION
To The Editor Sir, —I am one who strongly supported voluntary service 22 years ago and whose household produced five volunteers for active service at tbe front in 1915-1916. My experience during that war such as to convert me to the opposite opinion and I am now convinced that conscription is by far the most fair, and, when carefully thought out, will be the most popular, system of recruiting. Old people well remember how easy it was to put their sons in positions to claim exemption.
Then again we are risking the lives of the most loyal and valuable of our young manhood to protect, in many cases, wasters who will go about preaching sedition and annoying those in authority when they are doing their best to administer the law at a very critical time and urgently require recruits to relieve those in the trenches.
Our duty today is to support every honourable means to avoid war, and it seems that the most effective way is to prepare for it and strengthen our defences. This Britain realized too late to save the helpless Abyssinians from massacre.—Yours, etc., JiR. June 15, 1939.
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Southland Times, Issue 23848, 20 June 1939, Page 5
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