EDITORIAL

Gun Flash, Issue XVIII, 1 May 1943, Page 1

EDITORIAL

«xvrw...» >3 Regimental efficiency should not be gauged from tho grand march past in'tho big cities when the plaudits of the crowd make the soldier realise that ho belongs to a fine unit, and whore tho applause and .•public eye make him soldier-conscious and consequently smart and alert' x and unright® soldiers are made, not born,, imd become great through conscious effort. Perhaps tho throe greatest generals the world has over known wore Alexander the Grout, Caesar, and Napoleon ♦* and all throe, history proven, became groat"through hard, work and carofull study©

We are not all culled to be Napoleons, but we are all called to be good soldiers® The Editorials of this paper have, from time to time., stressed one or other point of the good soldier; the characteristic qualities that go to make up not only a good soldier, but one of the best. Remember some of those characteristics; cheerfulness; doing our bit; and the Editorial about bomb blitzed London; Now Caledonian tho link in the chain; preparedness ; and hurricane warning; silence for tho walls have oars; and so on® Put all those qualities in one man and you are getting something of tho real soldier * composed if you like of many pieces, but, like St® Paul’s In London, though made up of small bits, tho finished structure is both imposing and noble." But, it may bo argued, I hove not got all those qualities. No « perhaps not© But neither, did Caesar nor Napoleon, nor tho soldier in 1959 m ’ Virtue and good habits are acquired by a succession of good habits, not in one act© Anything worths having costs something and the greater tho cost, the greater tho value. We may got some consolation from remembering that very few soldiers are born. - most

are made*