1939-09-12 — Page 11

12, 1939.

By Hamilton

Fyfe

o either. royalties change their nationality when paws by they marry. They make no more bones discontent about it than about changing their re- '

and an- ligion. ruler on ond they nality! ed about try" was

ʼn he said

r his pro-

his coun-

he cared

t all.

in Bis-

W. S. Gilbert, who, under pretence of being a Conservative, satirised everything Conservatives hold dear, made fun of their ideas of patriotism.

He might have been a Rooshian, Or French or Turk or Prooshian, Or perhaps Ital-i-an;

But, in spite of all temptations, To belong to other nations,

He remained an Englishman! So would most us prefer to remain what we were born, but that should not make us scornful of other nations, or stupidly complacent country about our own.

property evolution:

m Russia. France in the re-

ities, they It should not lay us open to be fooled by wur-mongers, or lead us to to forget that we and all the other or- dinary men and women throughout the world are alike in nearly all ways and want the same things-comfort, security and to live our lives as hap- pily as we can.

her a per-

that, is Ith which

th

Government

ed at any

ol of the

Then, also, parties must be con- tinually recruited

from outside, and

the recruiting of both sides suffers if! the pendulum isn't kept swinging pretty regularly.

Perhaps more serious is what at first sight might seem the opposite danger, of excessive moralism, of treating every political action as a sue of our purely moral affair, the party's own ontroversy acts being of course morally admir-. emocracy, able, and all alternatives wicked. This

wide an does not

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mean that party leaders rties that ought not to be men of high moral hat party purpose and habit. But a party "which for want is too sure and too loud about the on which moral nature of its aims will swell into a crusade, and crusades are tho most unjustifiable and the most in- evitably unsuccessful of wars. A party which wants to form a government, to use the power of the State, public force. to impose its moral certitudes on its countrymen is inevitably tire- some, and tends

to be totalitarian: when the moral compulsion is extend- the party becomes militarist (whatever it may say) and the risk of war is great.

hat there nough to

30 neces-

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strong ed to foreigners,

Commons:

vernment

s a good

ot néces-

wise in

ation, but

Only, if

nough to

TOO MUCH

MORALISM

These have been

historically the

hent ma- greatest dangers to English parties- yal, then the occcasional, sometimes long-last-

to pro- ing, disproportion between

han par- and the

periodic fits of

parties, excessive

of course, moralism. Both weaknesses have oc- too long, curred in history on both sides. Both side lose have certainly been apparent lately. guishing At their recent worst they have not pposition been worse than on some earlier oc- anwhile, cassions, and both are a good deal less at bench glaring now than they have been late- because ly. There is therefore no reason why has gets they should cause us to despair of

party government.

By George McManus

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IT MUST BE AROUND

HERE-1 MUST FIND IT BEFORE NIGHT-FALL-

LONELY WIFE-even on

SATURDAY AFTERNOONS

You'll be home for lunch, won't you, Bob?

Ok, sorry, but I forgot to tell you I'm going out with some of the boys this afternoon.

MARY DECIDED TO TEACH BOB A LESSON

I know you

Dear Bob,

don't want me any more, so I'm going home where ga am wanted.

See that Scofie gets his food all right.

Mary

MARY GOT HOME BEFORE BOB AND BURNED THE NOTE,

THEN SHE WENT TO SEE HER DOCTOR-

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Jovā bank imore, -50 nemo

am kakst

jh ht. right

SO - HORLICKS

EVERY NIGHT

AND ·

...

A WONDERFUL CHANGE CAME ÖVER MARY

He's always out, Scottie. Even when he's home' ha hardly talks, I know I've been run-dowm and dull-looking, but I don't deserve to be treated

like this!

AT HER MOTHER'S HOME

You're a very foolish girl! You've let yourself, get red out and nervy.

"You look about fifty. How can you expect Bob to be interested.

Now you go back home and see a

doctor!

and, Doctor, I even wake tired

SIX WEEKS LATER

From what you tell me, Mrs. Norton, your trouble is Night Starvation. You see,

even at night you go on using up

energy in heartbeats, breathing and

other automatic actions. In your case,

this has also led to an excess of acid waste products in the blood.

All this causes you to waka tirad, feel and leek run-down and 'nervy. Recent tests have proved that Horlicks is whet "people need for that.

Darling, I'm proud of you. You're so bright and gay, so full of life.

THINKS:

....

BOB LOVES ME AGAIN. THANK GOODNESS

· FOR HORLAKE

D

Do you feel worn out, depressed and nervy?

Take

K2

Do you even wake tired?

HORLICKS

Guard Against

NIGHT STARVATION:

Then you will sleap soundly, wake refreshed--and hava extra energy all day