“STRAIGHT-GOERS” WANTED.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3316, 21 October 1919, Page 5

“STRAIGHT-GOERS” WANTED.

SOLDIERS AND POLITICS. TESTS WITH “ACIDS” OF WAR. Some references to politics and politicians were made by the Rev. W. Bullock, organising secretary in New Zcaland to the Church of England Mr-n’S Society, in his adtlress to men at the Auckland Town Hall concert chanrber on Monday. The returned soldiers, Mr Bullock said; would test people, politicians and p:l.1‘S0l1S, by the acids that war had placed in their hands. They had learned to differentiate between a virtue that ccosts something and one that costs nothing. It was not to be won~ dcred at that they were resorting to political action. What with the party shibboleths and war cries of the past they felt that they must make sure‘ that men of public spirit and men of large minds——men who had no private axes to grind——were elected to Parliamont. They wanted not more popular idols, but men who were going straight and would keep straight. Soon the politicians would issue long lists of promises, Ibut these were usually “only about as valuable as a bandage on 3 Wooden legal” The soldiers were" going to learn whether a. man was willing to go through the fire before they trusted him.

Thai: chairman of the meeting, Mr C. Hudson, said that although Mr Bullock -had not been long in’ New Zealand he had gauged political life pzfétty well. The Church of England Mcn’s Society should make it its business ‘to see wllethe_l' it could not gef better men to represént them in Par-