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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21702, 10 July 1940, Page 6

Now 1 am going to my studio to draw, writes David Low in the New York Times. At a time like this there is no dearth of material. The indignation generated at the spectacle of man’s inhumanity to man always provokes a copious expression in cartoonists, as the sight, of a large man kicking a child might provoke you to copious speech. It may sound sententious, but the defence of the decencies of life is part of a cartoonist’s business. The quality that divides—or should divide—the art. of a cartoonist from that of the purely humorous artist is that underlying the satire of the former is an implied contrast with something better. A highly moral calling, that of deflating the flocks of humbugs, hypocrites and incompetents that seem always to grow and ilourish like the green bay tree in time of war.