15 AUGUST 1914, Page 3

In the general eagerness to help we hope that the

sound advice given this week by the writer of a letter to the Daily Mail will be taken to heart. He suggests that the nation's motto at the present moment should be "Business as usual." That is sound common-sense and true patriotism. There is not one of us who cannot without the slightest loss of health or happiness be "speeded up" by some fifteen or twenty per cent. If we all—men, women, and children—resolve to work harder and better than before, we shall very soon overtake the losses of war. They are superficial things, if the spirit survives.