DISCIPLINE

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1930, Page 7

DISCIPLINE

PI’S PLACE IN PEACE

PROFESSOR SHELLEY’S WARNING.

CHRISTCHURCH, April- 26

“It may be that compulsory military training as we know it will come to an end in New Zealand, but there never, was a time in civilisation when tiie discipline it teaches was so necessary as to-day. We may be able to do without that training which teaches how to point a riiie, but we cannot neglect'that which teaches how to point out minds in the right direction, how to respect bravery and enthus-UiSnw-whether in friend or enemy—and how 1 to give an .enemy the bestchance to recover nrter our discipline has enabled us to defeat him."

These remarks were made by Professor J. Shelley yesterday afternoon in his Anzac Bay address to territorials and cadets at the service in Hagiey Park.

“The story of Gallipoli will be for

New Zealand what the story of Troy is to the Greeks,” said the Professor. “Twenty or thirty miles away from tne place where our troops landed stood Troy which was beseiged and captured bv the Greeks, but the stratagem of the wooden horse can never hold up its head against the daring exploit of Lientenant-Colonel Frey berg.

“To-day, while we remember Gallipoli, we should also remember heroism of another kind, the privations which our troops endured knee-deep in Flanders mud. That heroism was not spectacular, but it called more tor the kind of discipline demanded of us in our everyday Jives. In our ordinary mundane affairs, however, it is much more difficult to carry into effect.

“It does not matter so much what we get out of life as how we get it. We may lose all if we sacrifice too much to discipline. Those more who died in battle, unpleasant as it may nave been, died a clean death, but me man who dies at home in the midst of piled-up luxury, that man is dead indeed. The very idea of British sportsmanship demands that we should bring that discipline which served us so well in war into .our daily lives.”