THE NOBLER MOTIVE
10 THF EDITOP Sir.—ln your issue of to-day 1 notice a letter by " Commonsense" in which the writer says some critical things <-)bout the young people who neglected to purchase tickets for the £3500 house while the older people gladly paid the Gel asked for. Are these young people so thoughtless after all? How many of them really want to be amused at dances and casinos while death is dropping from the skies on their kith and kin in the Homeland? Last week the students of the University raised over £SO to help their fellow-students in China and in Europe. This year the Presbyterian young men increased their giving to missions from £I6OO to over £2OOO and the Presbyterian young women raised theirs from abput £BOO to over £I4OO. No. the diagnosis by "Commonsense" is quite wrong. At least a section of our young people ape very thoughtful, and manv of them could set their elders a good example, in sacrificial giving. Appeal to the latent spirit of self-sacrifice in young New Zealand and it Will rise to heights higher than those achieved by young Nazis who know how to sacrifice for their ignoble cause. The nobler motive has always awakened a response in the souls of British youth.— I am. etc.. Citizen.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24406, 18 September 1940, Page 11
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