MUST WORK FOR ACHIEVEMENT

Chronicle (Levin), 13 July 1946, Page 4

MUST WORK FOR ACHIEVEMENT

ENTERPRISE MUST GO AHEAD OF SECURITY " Acliievemeut is not sometliiuf? vhicli happons of its own accord. Bo 'lijid overy great imisician, artist (r cientist is the onpourageraeiit given" ln liose with vision — the sane visioi vhic.h, eoupled. with xlaring a:nd initia •*: ive, enaiftes meh to grasp anYf ttring t -ealisation a new enterprise which ben -fits not only theniselves and tlios. u'ound tliein but also the nation as o .vhole. The nation which wislies to lr vreat must place enterprise ahead oi ^ecurity. " Quoting these words in the House oJ' lepresentatives this week, Mr. M- H ■ )rom, M. 1'., said it challenged atten 'ion with tho suggestion that we weri 'osing in Xew Zealand pioneering spiril "f our ancestors. . "Hecurity and having things handed ■o you on a platter are all very well foi the very old, the sick and iniirm, for '■hosV poor souls who have fallen by the wayside," lle added. "For our youne people there should be the love of ad '•euture, the lure oi' the unknown, the desire to rish all to accomplish niucli ihe urae of the loftv ueak, the will f

go out alone and unaided to hack a •>athway through the jungle of life. Ti wp can recapture that spiirit, and if we will make the State our servant and no' our master, then I do believe that in this far off.' corner of the world we sha1 be able so to mould_the shape of thing' to come, -that the.dregm of Lincoln will come true and the Government of tlu people, by the people and for tlie, people will not perish from this earth. ' '