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Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1924, Page 2

. NViui.t.vo a memorial window at St. James’s Church, Whitehaven, in memory of Thomas Stanley Metcalf, hilled on active service with the New Zealand troops, Lieut.-Col. D. .T. Mason, D. 5.0.. said he had fought side by side for some months with the men of the Now Zealand Division in the strenuous final •stages of the war. To-day the spirits of the men who died in the war railed to the whole British nation to do its duty in building up England anew, to maintain the priceless heritage of a great and world-wide .Empire, to restore tho damage done by war, and to remember that success and the highest good came only by personal service and self-sacrifice, by working together in unity. He often wondered if the spirits of these men were upbraiding us for the little distance we have gone in these last six years. “Have we been really trying to help b.v personal service and self-sacrifice? Have we in this country been trying to work in untiy? “These are questions,” ■said Colonel Mason, ‘‘which each must answer dispassionately according to his conscience, lor by the wonderful constitution under which we live the poorest man has equal power with the richest to forge the policy of the nation ; the most ignorant man has equal power with the best in tor mod ; and upon tho light udgment of the masses of the People the responsibility ultiinateily rests in a measure unpercedenteil in Hie nation’s history.” To build up tile world anew it was their duty to try to devise means to stop wars between nations. B.v having agreed to compulsory arbitration between nations we were doing our duty in that respect. ft was also our duty to stop industrial wars at Home. If the masses could be induced to believe that war of any kind impoverished a nation and did not enrich it. and that industrial war was just as destructive, then an atmosphere would have been created in which confidence between nlan and man could grow, and there would lie the .same real hope of solving the great social problems at our doors. That was a direction in which it seemed to him we could use our influence each in iiis own sphere.