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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20822, 5 June 1939, Page 9

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AILING DAUGHTER FIFTH PRIZEWINNER S WISH <By Telcsrrnrh.—Special to HAHGAVILLK. Saturday. Mr Carl Hanson, a laurhinan employer] by the Hobson County, winner of Iho fifth prize of £.'<oo in the ■I-ncky charm’’ art union, says ho took a ticket in the hope that if successful he could take his 1 daughter, who has been ailing for some time, to a city specialist.

ter-attacks, general conflagration. This is not by any means just an imaginary contingency. A United States Secretary of War, John W. Weeks, once made a verynaive admission, speaking of the necessity of having men trained to officer the Army and Navy, he said: “it is futile to deny that normal young men so Lruined have a natural curios.ty as to how they may use that training in the actual conditions of war for which they have been prepared. As a graduate of the Navai Academy, 1 must confess that when 1 was a youngster at Annapolis, 1 used to try to picture to myself actual conditions, that would call into play the training that I was getting." And as there must certainly be manymore “youngsters” in training to-day who feel as Mr Weeks did, the itch to “try things out,” to see what they will be like when put into effect in actual war-tune use—this is the danger spot of “preparedness,” and the one and only way in which war can ever actually "break out” in a hurry. The desire, almost irresistible, to see what we can do with all this boosted preparedness business, is just another version of tlie words. “How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done."—l am, etc., L. L. 1 lasting». May 31.