MORE MEN

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2893, 4 October 1916, Page 6

MORE MEN

j Sir, —Please permit,me to congratui- late you upon your article. In the ;, Mother Country, all fit men, single e and married, have been called up. The 3 women are driving trams, doing farm i -work, collecting-tickets on-the railway, 1 'etc., and when oho looks around'in New Zealand _and sees able-bodied men fit ~ for service selling ribbon behind a counter, it is impossible to come to any other conclusion than that' we are not doing our share. That we have done splendidly—better than any other Dominion —is immaterial. ■ We could do more. New Zealand has a great chance t<t f show the world what she is made of. j Let her make a Lloyd-Georgian effort , 3 ' through the coming months of European 1 winter, so that—in common with the Mother Country—she will be able to throw her maximum strength into the field when it is most wanted, viz., for the spring campaign of 1917. An ob- ' jection that might be urged is that 4 if the-, war lasts longer than is anticia pated, it will not'be, possible to main- •' tain the Reinforcements for the - extra brigades. Such an objection' is ridiculous from a commonscnise point of view. Can anj'one deny that every available ■ man will be wanted in the 6pring of 1917? New Zealand cannot do more than make her: maximum : effort. . If - the effort is . made for the spnng of 0 1917 —when it will be : most needed— t and victory follows, New Zealand will 1 .always be able to look back and say. s that-every-available man -.was sent. 1 Should victory—for the sake of argument—bo postponed for such a period as to make it impossible' to reinforce to full strength, it will not matter one jot. New Zealand will have the satisfaction of'having expended'her whole strength—she could not have done j more. Compare a glorious New Zea- . land such- as this, at the end of the ' war, with a New Zealand with several s thousands of-isingle men not- called f upon, not to mention the thousands upon thousands of married men. s • Above all, Mr. Editor, in your suggestion you aro only asking the Gov--1 ernmont of this country to do what B .the Home Government have" already ■j done. They ought to know what is the best policy to adopt. If our Government 1 is really anxious that New Zealand 1 should take as great a share as the Mother Country in the war, .more men 3 must be called up. If Lloyd George ■\verc hero your articlo would liavo uggh .1 unnecessary. To Mi* Allen I would . say: • "Aro you in earnest? Seize this very . • minute . . What you can do ... begin it. ■ Boldness lias gonius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows • heated, Begin and then the work will be completed." I'atat, etc., URGENT. o •