ANZAC DAY.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 371, 18 May 1926, Page 12

ANZAC DAY.

What memories rush o’er us on this day. What a thrill of pride runs through us! What a glow of delight warms our veins! The very name of Anzac stirs feelings that lie too deep for words. For it was there “our boys’’ were tried, and tested, and proved. There that their courage, their self-forgetfulness, their devotion to duty shone out so brightly. Well may we keep that day in memory of tie* brave who shall return to us no more. How fitting that we should lay our floral tributes

upou the monuments erected to the moniory of those who sleep upon Gallipolli’s heigths. For the qualities that nerved them for the sacrifice are deathless as the stars. These boys from our lonely islands proved worthy of their pioneer parents, and counted not their liv**s dear when duty called and dangers threatened. .

And this spirit still lives in our youth to-day. Hidden perhaps benvath a pleasure loving exterior, still it is there. It only needs to hear tin* tap of the enemy’s drum to spring once more into action. And that enemy is here in our midst. Not a foreign foe without, hut a traitor within. Once more our empire is -in danger, not from German bullets, but from alcohol's deadly poison gas. Sound out the S.O.S. so loudly that the youth may be roused from dreams of ease, to a realisation of danger. Show them an empire in peril, and subtle deadly peril, sapping at the very foundations of national life. They are listening; when they are fully awake to the need of the hour, then King Acohol will tremble, for the dauntless spirit which won through at Anzac Cove will win in this greater fight for a clean and wholesome homeland. ‘Tis the responsibility of those who do realise the peril to be up and doing, to cry aloud and spare not, to awaken all that sleep. 'Tis always harder to rouse against the secret foe who comes in the guise of a friend. A A slogan for our Y’s. “Dominion in Danger. Alcohol our Antagonist, Prohibition onr Panacea.” “Ye that have faith to look with fearless eyes

Beyond the tragedy of a world at strife, Rejoice, whatever anguish rend your heart, That God has given to you the priceless dower, To live in these great times am. near your part— That ye may tell your sons who sec the light, 1 saw tin* powers of darkness put to flight 1 saw the morning break.”