 He was passionately patriotic and, having been rejected for active service, did much war work in addition to carrying on the English school.Some of his work was in the nature of propaganda; a collection of his articles, "Australia and the War" (1916) and "The Story of the Anzacs", published anonymously at his own expense in aid of patriotic funds, appeared in 1917.From 1919 to 1922 he acted as Chief Film Censor for the Commonwealth government.