Confidence Needed In Facing World Problems Today

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 June 1948, Page 6

Confidence Needed In Facing World Problems Today

“Today there was a greater neea for a re-birth of confidence if the problems confronting the world were to be successfully solved,” said Colonel Geodge H. Marshall, of the Salvation Army, in an address to the Wanganui Rotary Club yesterday.

A recent arrival in New Zealand from the United States, Colonel Marshall has been visiting Wanganui foi the 64th anniversary of the city corps of the Army in Wanganui. The speaker stressed the need of confidence in Goa and a return to Christian precepts.

Founded 85 years ago, the Salvation Army faced a situation in which there were many complex problems, said Colonel Marshall. Its philosophy needed no overhauling in facing the world situation today. There was &nly one approach to the problem, that of making better men. A beginning had to be made with the individual, he added. The speaker said there were many groups in America akin to tlie RotaryClub, and they were accomplishing much good. He had been invited to address a Rotary Club in Florida and ee described it as a challenging experience. The world situation today, said Colonel Marshall, demanded that no individual could remain indifferent, or shirk his own responsibility. With the advance of flying the world had shrunk and distance had been annihilated. The recent war had given a tremendous impetus to flying, and in America there were planes which could cross an ocean and return without the need for making a landing. Once, those in the United States thought they were immune from the turmoil which engulfed other nations. but the recent war had changed all that. Colonel Marshall said that though Americans detested war, the present administration was spending large sums on armaments, just in case of emergency. It could not afford to be caught unprepared. The speaker added that rhe United States had a great regard for Britain, and gifts and monies from people in all walks of life, totalling billions of dollars, had been forwarded over the Atlantic to assist Britain in her economic plight. This, said Colonel Marshall, was quite apart from aid forwarded by the Government, of the country. It was imperative, he said, for the United States to stand four squhre with Britain in combating the pernicious doctrines which some nations were advocating at the present time. Colonel Marshall was thanked for his address.