GREAT EFFORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 2

GREAT EFFORT

CONSTRUCTIVE WAR-MAKING. In the organising of the British nation to the maximum effort, especially from the economic point of view, we have heard a great deal about the desirability of saving, of depriving ourselves or being deprived of luxuries, and many comforts, and of the necessity to lower our standard of living, writes a correspondent to the “Manchester Guardian.” This is what one may call the negative aspect of our effort; the effects of it are essentially depressing, both in body and in spirit, and the results obtainable necessarily limited. There is another aspect which, if brought more prominently and more emphatically before the nation by eloquent speakers and inspiring writers, would be much more fruitful and would place economic defeat beyond the bounds of possibility. If the whole nation could be stirred to a great effort to increase the production both of war supplies and •’of goods for export—an effort parallel in every way to that which our soldiers and sailors are making—available materials would be vastly increased and their cost greatly reduced; in addition, the effect of a campaign in this direction would be to raise rather than to depress the spirits of the people, and in an increasing degree.