ABOVE THE AVERAGE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 254, 22 July 1919, Page 6

ABOVE THE AVERAGE

"If a true distinction is to be sought between the British and the German races as tested in the. war, it may be found in this—that the British peoples have always at times of crisis shown themselves as. communities to he abo\e, but the German below, the individual average," says the London "Times. "What, after all, brought the Dominion troops to the battlefields of Europe, and the other continents touched by the war? It was no lust of fighting,.llo greed of gain, not even—though that was strong—the yearning for adventure. It was the faith that in British ideals lay the true hope of civilisation—that above all other motives. "Religion, recognising the blight of the commonplace, appoints its festivals for ladders by which men and women may climb for a moment above the clouds. Patriotism has need of its festival days ,15 well, and to-dav is one. It sends our memories back to (lie inspiration that we felt when war broke out. It wipes nway the recollection of the long years of strain and trial. It unveils Vlie true victory. It challenges the people here, and in the Dominions, and throughout the Empire, to ba true to, and worthy of, the faith in which' victory was won."