TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3304, 2 June 1931, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

“ Our best asset is the character of our people and our tenacity and enterprise in the face of difficulty,” writes Mr Angus Watson in “ To-day and To-morrow.” “ There is a steadiness in our character in perilous times that seems to burn brightest when we are facing what appear to be insuperable difficulties, and no nation appears to me to possess in the same degree this outstanding quality. Emerson referred to it with unqualified admiration when we were face to face with what appeared to be national disaster as an aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, and Carlyle, in spite of his onslaughts on our national failings, referred more than once with admiration to the same quilities. This is a time when it is useless to take short views. We are in very truth in the process of relaying the foundations of our Empire, in which goodwill to all nations must replace national pride; co-operation dominates us instead of an insular outlook, and a quiet confidence in our future destiny gives us the necessary vision to bear manfully our present heavy burdens.”