THE WAIPA POST. Printed on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. TUESDAY, 13th DECEMBER, 1932. BUCK UP.

Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3267, 13 December 1932, Page 4

THE WAIPA POST. Printed on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. TUESDAY, 13th DECEMBER, 1932. BUCK UP.

From being somewhat complacent, the average New Zealander has been reduced by adversity to an acute consciousness of his limitations and fallibility. Unfortunately the heartsearching mood has gone further. Defeatism is in the air. Prom doubting whether we can do anything right some are relapsing into a mood of doing nothing at all. As everyone knows who has had anything to do with the sick that is the most dangerous mood of all. The Governor-Gen-eral appears to have noted this slackness and has quoted to us the words of the Prince of Wales: "Let us attack depression and apathy in the goo)d olid British attitude of good sense and good humour I should be sorry if we could not in this crisis resuscitate those characteristics of courage, resourcefulness, self-reliance and independence of thought and action which have built up the British race." No doubt Lord Bledisloe realises as well as or better than anyone else just what New Zealand is up against, because he is in a position to know. But he also realises that nothing was ever accomplished by passively accepting conditions. Progress is a product of the active mood. Fatalism is quite foreign to the British : spirit. While we must, we will endure, but only on condition that through endurance we shall come to a happier state for which we are ready to and work.