TO VICTORY

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4463, 13 August 1941, Page 6

TO VICTORY

WORK. AND SELF-DENIAL IMPERATIVE. “ The chance to lay firm grasp on our prospects of victory depends on the speed with which we bring our potential resources to the battlefronts and the thoroughness with which we sacrifice every pastime and enjoyment that impedes this result. Work and self-denial are our infallible guides. Every man jack of us knows it. Why, then, is petrol squandered in taking crowds to greyhound races and golf clubs ? Why have we not yet cut down our production of civilian requirements as’ rigorously as the Germans ? Why can some of us still over-eat if we want to ? Why are we living above the level of hardship which the awful warning dictates, and the guide to victory demands ? Legislation cannot remove all these blemishes of our record in this war for survival of mankind. The ordinance of self-de-nial must be imlposed upon ourselves. Yet at this hour w.'e b.elieve the people say to their rulers: ‘ If We enjoy comforts which our seamen must risk their necks to bring to our shores, and which deprive our soldiers of their tanks and our pilots of their mlachines, take them from l us. We know the penalty of defeat. We know the price of victory. We are ready to pay it.”—Evening Standard, London.