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SCHOOLS BROADCAST.
Applying the Anzac Spirit.
The message of Anzac Day was broad
cast yesterday to metropolitan and coun
try schools from the national station
6WN. Sons and daughters of city work
ers, Great Southern woolgrowers, South
West dairyfarmers and goldminers Jn
outback fields gathered round their
school loudspeaker and heard, once again,
the stirring story of Anzac and the sip
nificance of the Landing in Australia'e
national history. Over the air came
the exhortation that the men who had
fallen had left a task for them to per
form, and that in these days of stress
Australia demanded of its younger gene
ration those qualities that characterised
the Anzacs.
- After a fanfare of trumpets and a mili
tary march, during which the unseen
audiences took up their positions, the
Director of Education (Mr. C. Hadley)
delivered an introductory address. They
formed a proud army, those farmers
stockmen, timber hewers, lawyers, clerks.
teachers and engineers, he said, and bY
their splendid courage and sacrifice, vic
tory at last crowned their efforts. The
victory and peace so dearly won would be
worth the cost if the nations learnt to
hate war. By the soul only would
nations be great and free. When a nation
became ruthless and dishonourable and
repudiated agreements, Its greatness
might linger for a time, but the ground
on which it stood was hollow and a shock
would overturn it. The greatness of a
nation lay not in material resources
wealth or arms, but in the character of
its people. Australians were the inheri
tors of a great past, the guardians of a
great present and the trustees of a great
future.
In an address on "The Meaning of
Anzac." Mr. M. W. Tuohy, headmaster
of the Sawyer's Valley school, who was
a member of the 44th Battalion, warned
his young listeners that the world today
was living under the shadow of war,
despite the unceasing efforts of some
countries to preserve peace.
"As you grow older," he said. "you will
be called upon to face grave problems and
the future happiness and prosperity of
Australia, will to a large extent, depend
on the decisions you make, or help to
make. Despite the ever-increasing
threats of war, we must still strive for
peace, but peace with honour. We must
always be prepared to render service.
and to make sacrifices for our country
and Empire and for other comuntries de
serving of them. We must be just and
tolerant to others, and respect their
opinions, beliefs and feelings.' We must
also try better to understand their prob
lems and sympathise with their bhonest
efforts to solve them, hoping, at the same
time, that other peoples will share these
ideals with us and help us. also. in our
turn.
"In our efforts to achieve a better and
happier world, we will be strengthened
and encouraged by keeping in mind the
example that the men and women of
Australia set us on April 25, 1915,
throughout the Great War and since."
During the playing of Chopin's "Fune
ral March" the children stood to atten
tion and wreaths were laid. Mr. T. Sten,
headmaster of the Claremont Practistng
School, who conducted the service, ex
plained the meaning of the bugle calls
a t post and reveille--and after which
the calls were played by Mr. George Mel
lor. The singing during the service was
led by the West Leederville School choir
under Miss Ethel Crossley.
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