CLEAR THINKING TO-DAY

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4562, 20 April 1942, Page 4

CLEAR THINKING TO-DAY

IN a speech at a national war savings meeting at Edinburgh, Lord Alness sent a message which can well reach every citizen in New Zealand. He said: “Our duty as civilians is three-fold, and there is a clarion call to us to discharge it. First, we must save hard. But, as a supplementary and positive duty, we must lend every penny we can spare to the Statez There was never a time when there was more need, for thrift. Let oui thrift be not sporadic, but habitual — remembering that in peace-time thrift is a private virtue, but in war-time it is a public duty. There is no room for spectators in the world drama which is being unfolded before our eyes to-day. Idleness is always contemptible. To-day it is nothing short of criminal. Let each of us search his conscience, and decide whether or not he is putting forth the maximum effort of which he is capable. But there is yet another duty- We know that there is high authority for the statement that ‘ he who endures to the end shall be saved.’ Till the day of victory dawns our thoughts are centred, not on peace, but on war. When Hitler and all his gangsters lie on the rubbish heap of history, our land, purged and cleaned of the annealing fires of war, will rise from the dead ashes of the past, and a Britain, which is now rent and riven by the havoc of war, will give place to a Britain which will be the home of a peaceful, contented, and victorious race.”