WAY OF LIVING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 37, 8 April 1942, Page 3

WAY OF LIVING

MUST BE MORE AUSTERE DEFEATISM. MUST BE BANISHED "A special emergency demands special measures and I wish most ardently that our leaders would call us to a more austere mode of living in which temptations and opportunities for self-indulgence are removed," said the Rev. H. St. Barbe Holland, Bishop of Wellington, when addressing members of the Church of England Men's Society in Wellington. There was, however, no suggestion of limiting the freedom of the individual or any denial of the need for rest and re-j creation in the present crisis. There was need in New Zealand for a campaign similar to that launched in Britain by Sir Stafford Crjpps, Bishop Holland continued. Many had dedicated themselves to the service of the nation, such as members of the Home Guard, the National Military Reserve and the E.P.S., but there Mere still too many signs of levity. "Tendencies to doubt the defeatism in all ranks of tli,c people must be banished. More than safety is at stake, and to adopt a submissive attitude to arrogant aggression is to be disloyal to the sense of greatness of the human spirft," he said in denouncing the way people were becoming inured to one disaster after another in the Pacific. Tt was true that New Zealand was a small country. but small nations such as Greece rtiul Yugoslavia had set a stirring example by saving the souls of their people: and losing everything else. J