PATRIOTIC APPEAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1942, Page 2

PATRIOTIC APPEAL

NEED OF LIBERAL RESPONSE. EXAMPLE SET BY SOLDIERS. John Bull’s heart was saddened recently. A man who had promised a. substantial sum for the help of our soldiers sent in a cheque for just half what he had promised, because another man, who was better off. had given a lesser sum. Only the day before John Bull had read of a young friend—an only son—whose name had been on the missing list and was that day moved to the list of presumed killed. John Bull could not help contrasting the two' cases—one the one hand the bright boy who had gaily and gallantly offered his all; the family left behind proud in their sorrow, in the knowledge that he had not hung back in the hour of his country’s need. On the other hand the man who had promised a donation' which would not have meant any lessening of his material comfort. Before criticising this man who has reduced his subscription, ask yourself—have you given as you should? John Bull asks you to give and because of the cause’he represents he asks you to give cheerfully.