NO MORE WAR.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 261, 6 December 1930, Page 6

NO MORE WAR.

"FIAT LUX."

(To the Editor.) Sir,— -My attention has been drawn to two letters whieh appeared in. your issue of 2nd. inst. "Mack Robert" infers that the movement has no right to enter into local politics. The state of local politics is due in part to the apathy of the people. Does your corl respondent think that state is a satis- . f-ictory one? "War meinori&ls are to the dead— an emblem of remembrance of those we loved. Enemy guns m public places are memorials ot tlie brutal and barbaric method by whxch we lost those we loved. Does your5 eorrespondent thiiik this latter form of memorial is either good taste or 5. civilised? Can he picture parents c treasuring a gun with _ whieh their child was shot even 111 accident? "Gunner" is in favour of no more war, but would have the guns remam. Guxis, to the victors, are an emhlem of power and Iiatred, to the vanquished of defeat and future revenge. His comparison re the removal of war disabled New Zealanders is not sound. If we had imported and retaxned xn our midst war disabled German or Aufitrian citizens that ' would be a parallel case, does he advocate this? The No More War movement is inspired by a lover of all humanity and upholds tbe right of returned men to fair treatment. One of its best arguments is the failure of nations to caiuy out their pledges to men who are "lieroes" when war is xn onr midsii and "not wanted" when peac© prevails. But their title proclaims thexr main principle, i.e., to fight so that the individual, the nation and the world shall not again be delivered into tbe liands of those who have made this place a shambles. It h mterestmg to note that citizens of Wellington, have so repeatedly dumped a gxm over a sea wall that the authorxties have decided to leave it burxed in shmgle; that another Wellington gun was recently buried by the authorities^ aqd that Picton has serapped the iot less one that they have converted into a nile 'driverl Thank goodness some city fathers have the vision to work ior a ^ii.nrp T nm. ctc., ,

Napier, December 5, 1930. -