May 24.
Becatse as advertising "experts we have lacked any conspicuous measure of success, say the friendly critics of other lands, Great Britain has lost much; sometimes in business, sometimes in kudos, sometimes in friendship and support. Our friends on the other side of the Atlantic in the early days of the war realized that on this account we were in danger of losing ground in America in face of the widespread German propaganda abroad, and themselves saw to it that the deficiency in a sense made up. Other critics were not so well disposed, nor are they to-day, and in some quarters the bare mention of the British Empire is. sufficient. to raise a. howl of execration. Many of us fail to understand why this should be, and most of the others do not bother themselves to try to grasp. it. Normally possessed of a sound digestion, besides being tolerably stupid in parts (especially viewed from: the outsider's standpoint) the British people seem to get along" without worrying overmuch on these matters. From time immemorial they have gone pushing about the world, taming a few savages here and reducing the jungle to order somewhere else, and the fact that neither savages nor jungle had any higher ambition than to be.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.