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SATURDAY. OcroвER 20, 1938.
New Discipline
Responsibility of Service on Those
Who Prize Present
Liberties
By ROBBERT HIELD
ly receive should freely give. Strength Must
citizenship to the denial of its elementary obligations.
Just as water cannot be raised
to an artificial level without in- dustrious pumping, 80 a self- appointed standard of living.
If the aim and the end to be
IT must be admitted that these are dark days for democracy. Most formidably has it been challenged--not by the old des- potism, but by a new one which
discharge of public duty, the is: What is to happen while superior to that of other people, claims to be not a rejection but rendering of public service, the the military States are still at cannot be preserved without the a truer expression of the demo- sharing of the burdens inherent war, and before they fall? Their will and the capacity to defend it cratic principle, and a more effi- in the conditions which the will victims, unfortunately, fall first, from the envy of less happy of the people has decreed. De- it may be never to rise again. Innds. Freedom, said Matthew cient instrument for ensuring mocracy implies no less; for
It is our proud boast in this Arnold, is a good horse; but to that the will of the people shall liberty and equality could not be country to repudiate compulsory ride somewhere. Is it to be rid- prevail.
more truly manifested than by the requisition that all who free-service in any form, and to do. den for the consolidation or for pend on voluntary effort-a relic the disintegration of the State? That is the Totalitarian State,
of the time when this island was Let not the warning of the and democracy has been discon
" fortress built by Nature for Ancient Sage be forgotten- certed by its challenge. Its pres-
herself against infection and the "Where absolute freedom is Be Disciplined
hand of war." Reliance on the allowed, there is nothing to res- tige is in perit; its ascendancy is For the sake of liberty free- voluntary principle means in train the evil which is in every shaken; its self-confidence is men must be willing to surrend- practice leaving to a public man.” Thongkong Telegraph. dashed, when it had felt its pro- er a part of it-to pay, as it spirited minority the duty which
were, a just premium for the belongs equally to all. But Aim Of Military mise most assured. It is as essential insurance of what they whether it is right to do so, s Efficiency though it had been suddenly call- hold most dear. That is where not the only question for the
The same philosopher, whose - ed upon to prove again a title Totalitarianism has the advan- majority. Is it safe for them,
take of democracy. It insists on not less than for others, be generalisations show, by the NO MAN'S FOOL which had become to be accepted duties, where democracy insists cause in the event of war they way, that human nature has not
as beyond question; and it feels on rights.
also will inescapably find them- changed in 2,000 years, laid it China's not unexpected deci- | a
selves in the firing line?
down that there are two things. little "like An unprotected
It is true that freedom is the
in which all well-being consists. sion to carry on the "China piece in a game of draughts." soil in which the high spirit of Defending Our
"One of them is the choice of a Incident”—Tokyo still clings to
Standard Of Life
right aim and end of action; and · An old fable tells how, in the people can best be nurtured- the somewhat childish but con-assembly of the beasts, the confront any threat to itself from large enough for the necessity? tions which are means towards that spirit which will spring to What If the minority is not the other is the discovery of ac- venient delusion that without hares once claimed equality with within and without. That is not what if the appeal for recruits, the end; for the means and the formal declaration there can be the lions, and how
in doubt. But it is not enough say, to A.R.P., or to other essen- end may agree or disagree." they were for courage and sacrifice to be tint branches of the national de- no war-will have serious remet with the question, "Where at call, however certainly, in an fence forces, meets with no sufi- achieved be the good life, then percussions in Japan. For are your clawa?" That is the emergency. To assert them- cient response? While in these the freedom to pursue that aim months the populace have been question with which democracy selves effectively they must sub- fed on propaganda, which has is face to face.to-day, for it is mit to training and organisation, days the demand for voluntary and end must be an essential part
service has become more urgent
freedom must be secure assured them that the only task not enough to intend justice; it Strength must be disciplined if and extensive than ever, has the of the means. Therefore, the it is to hold its own against the response to the demand grown challenge. But how can it be remaining after the fall of Han-is necessary to be able to main stern discipline of despotism, commensurately? Is there any secure if its enjoyment la allow- kow would be to pick the fruitstain it. As a philosopher of the which is indeed akin to "the dis- evidence of it?
ed to become an enfeebling in- antique world observed, "It is cipline of slavery." of victory. China would cer
It has been remarked that the fluence to be incompatible with not the possessions, but the de- tainly collapse; there would be sires of men that need to
Nor is it enough to be well whole principle of democracy is "the discipline of virtue?" De armed. The best equipment in dependent on the will to work it. The rise of the Totalitarian revolt against its leaders; resist- | equalised."
the world is unavailing, if those The government of the people State is a formidable portent for ance would end throughout the
who are to employ it are unskill by the people, for the people" is all who hold to the democratic country. Unhappily for super-
ed and unregimented. They will practicable only as long as the ideal. Its ruthless and scientific but draw a sword that cannot people are interested enough to subordination of every individual optimists, Chiang Kai-shek and
exercise their privilege of choice. liberty, and energy to the com- his people unperturbedly con-
that it aims at achieving the That should be obvious enough It is stultified if the free and in- mon end increases immensely tinue their even tenor and, as
of Spain dependent electors will not trou- the efficiency of the national en- good life for all its citizens; but after the experience the first flush of delirious its
gine. defect is to enthusiasm subsides, the Japan- fundamental condition on which ties, that the legislator should fence of their liberties, which is sional is to the amateur as the ese people must uneasily recall alone the good life can be built, direct all his military and other properly everybody's business, up-to-date machine is to the that the same promises were and that condition is security. measures to the provision of lei- as if it were nobody's business, domestic makeshift. made after the retreat from It is only human that those sure and the establishment of excepting those who choose or
Still Enviable- peace." It may also be true, as are paid to perform it. Shanghai and the fall of Nan- who are most determined to en- he insists, that "most military
"Men are easily spoilt," says And Vulnerable When I Have Sung my Songs (Charles) DA-1524 king, both of which occurred last joy and retain all the benefits of States are safe only while they Aristotle. "Not everyone can That is why George Meredith KREISLER FRITZ: AND LONDON PHILHARMONIC year. In nine months, the road freedom should be inclined to are at war, and fall when they bear prosperity," and he adde many years ago
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practices stiff-necked people must bow dom exacts, and to forget that Centurica clapsed, it may be re- which appear to be democratic their necks to this yoke"-mean- Concerto in E Minor (Mendelssohn) DB-2460-2461-2462 from Nanking to Hankow has grudge the sacrifices which free have acquired their
been traversed at an average freedom is itself not free, but marked in passing, before the are the ruin of democracies." It ing the yoke of military service. snail's pace of a mile and a half something to be paid for at a Roman Empire fell.
is a serious question whether one What the rejection of the yoke a day. Every mile is enriched price; that it is not a natural The question for pence-and- of those very practices is not cost us in the Great War, we can- TOSCANINI AND PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA:- with the blood of countless un-fruit of the earth, but a culti liberty-loving nations, "therefore, the insistence upon the rights of not surely have forgotten. By
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Sacrifice Which
Freedom Exacts
The virtue of democracy
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Contrasted with volun-
the and China. It may be true, as ble to vote; and it is equally obscure Aristotle predicates in his Poli- stultified if they regard the detary service, it is as the profes
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The discipline of virtue. Now, for democracies,
the
more torturous road into the wildernesses of Hunan, Szechuen and Yunnan, a path which, lack- ing waterways and railways to provide lines of communication, first "discipline of virtue" is the must be conquered at a speed exasperatingly slower and more one phase and the beginning of costly.
another. They realise that the Chiang Kai-shek, in voluntari-heartbreaking task of paying for and the biggest war Japan has over ly relinquishing Canton Hankow, has played his cards fought is only just commencing. The victory 'fors, Japan has well. The cup of victory is raised to the lips of many proved a hollow one; the defeat Japanese military leaders toust-for China has proved itself ing themselves and their armies, strategy of the type which will and the nectar is sweet to them.win this war if it is continued. But to their compatriots at Clearer reasoning is now home, who must finance this mad possible regarding the Canton undertaking, the nectar is turn and Hankow "disasters". That ing to gall, - as it becomes reasoning shows that Generalis- Increasingly evident that Canton aimo Chiang Kai-shek la no and Hankow are but the end of man's fool.
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the grace of God, and the aid of our Allies, we were granted time to repair that neglect. But shall we be granted time again?
Fortunately the schoolmaster in the shape of the avowed enemies and despisers of demo- cracy is abroad. His writing on the wall is plain enough for all to read. The social services, the standard of living, the free- dom to shape our own destiny, to say nothing of our capacity to keep our place in the world, and exert our influence as a liberal- ising Powerall these are .nt stake.
Everything for which the Bri- tish name and the British ideal stand is involved. Wo have seen what happens to those who can- not defend themselves, and whom the other democracles have been unable to defend. Is it to be supposed that our turn will not come if we remain as vulnerable as we are enviable? Then we shall afford another example of the conclusion that "men are casily spoilt," and that "not everybody can bear prós- perity."
the
Must we confess that twilight of democracy has fallon 7. It is for us now if over to ahowa! that we are capable of acceptiu "the discipline of virtue."