A LITTLE CAREFUL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1958, 29 March 1919, Page 2

A LITTLE CAREFUL.

WM want t o bo very <-a re fill ihoso day.- how wo speak before mu' ohildroji about I his war; how wo roar l.honi in an atmosphere heavy with, poison. The world's fill are lies in the hands of our diihlron. Wo must not forgot that -all-important fad, Wo are wrong enough with ourse]-*

ves when ivc speak of hatred in this Avar, but we do a double wrong when we implant that thought in the mind of u child. “Father,'’ asked a boy the other day, looking up from a newspaper, “what is hale.'’’ What, indeed! Do we want that word in, the mind of our child; We are not, in this war for hatred of any people; we are in the turmoil for humanity's sake, and humanity means all tin* world. It excludes no people. Everyone can help to put this thought right- in the minds of our children. We do not want to plant something now in a child's mind that it will lake 1 generations to uproot. We are lighting a system in Avhieh we do not believe, hut not a people. And there is no place for hate. No war was ever won .by hate; no victory, Avorlh having, ever {Achieved. The future of the world's happiness lies in the hands of little children. Let us get the reason fur this Avar into (heir minds straight. We must leach our children a love of all men. Our duty to our children is to instil a belief in the Avurth and value of every human soul, and an encouragement of every soul towards freedom and, self-expression. That is why we are at war, and to that we dcA-ote our lives and our honour, —Exchange,