PATRIOTIC APPEAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1942, Page 2

PATRIOTIC APPEAL

"PAY UP & PLAY THE GAME.” I j (Contributed.) ; Last night “John Bull” sat ; ing why so few of his grandsons and 1 - granddaughters called on him. He had . . read disturbing reports of the position in England when the adolescents had ' too much money but he knew that . their hearts were in the right place. He felt that ho was very old fashioned when he was shocked at reading that a young' girl asked the Arbitration Court for an increase in pay because it cost her 9s per week for cigarettes. He wondered whether his generation had been at fault in allowing the youngsters to spend everything on themselves. He remembered the stern Victorian father who preached the value of sacrifice and he wondered whether the children today were remiss because their parents failed to give them a lead. Then “John Bull” remembered the high courage of the boys at school and he remembered with a catch in his throat how these same boys went forth to battle with their eyes steady and aglow. For these boys’ sakes ho takes the liberty of amending Henry Newbolt’s message to those who arc left behind. “And falling, call to the host behind, Pay up, pay up, and play the game.”