WAR CRUMBLERS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2415, 22 March 1915, Page 7

WAR CRUMBLERS.

Sir, —I have been reading the daily waitings of those grumblers who are complaining that their bread and butter costs more than before the war, till I feel sick. Let these murmurers think of the thousands of starving croatures in Belgium and elsewhere, who have none, and bo thankful that tliey have any, and that wo are well out of the sound of guns, and constant fear of invasion. And let them be quite suto, that so long as this truly awful war lasts, not only our precious bread and butter, but all articles of food and clothing, will rise and rise in price, and learn in. time to practise a nttle self-denial. Let them remember that in the Old Country people high and low are willingly giving their lives, their money, and everything they possess to help the country in its soro need. Of course, we shall have to suffer. Why, Sir, 110 country in the world is so prosperous, nowhere are wages higher, ana surely no country so thriftless as New Zealand. A taste of tjie brejid ' 41$' S a tgS of

will do us no harm. Tha wages aro onormous, but who saves? Very few. The time is coming when we shall be (quite rightly) taxed, and then we shall have to do all sorts of terrible tilings, trim our own liats, give up the nightly picture show, make our children give up butter and jam together on thoir broad. Wo shall often Jiavo to actually walk from one street to another, instead of taking the tram. Our girls may havo to give up white lace stockings and kid shoes on tlis street. Our men may bo forced to curtail their betting and other amusements. What we all want is tho power of self-denial, and wo shall know ere long what this means, if I mistake not, whether wo liko it or not.—l am, etc., LOOK AHEAD.