HEATED CONTROVERSY

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 70, 2 March 1938, Page 3

HEATED CONTROVERSY

OVER THE NATIONAL ftNTHhM INCIDENT IN PRETORIA. CAPE TOWN, February 28. Tho controversy over tho South Africa!’. National Anthem has taken a new phase. While “Hod Save the King’’ was being 1 Lived in a Pretoria cinema, ten ini -| I d receptacles were flung at the Kii -’s portrait exhibited on the screen, over which ink was splashed. News of this insult to the King has aroused < .u-deferable indignation. The opening of the South African Parliament recently by the GovernorGenei.il. Sir Patrick Duncan, was eharact ised by the pla>ing ol the hand before the National Anthem of a South African melody called “ ihe Voice of South Africa,” which, il *as stated, Afrikanders hoped would he otlicially recognised as a joint anthem. Subsequently newspapers in the Natal and Cape provinces generally condemned the statement of the Prime Minister, General Hertzog. that “Die Stem van Snid Africa *ould b< South Africa’s National Anthem and that “God Save the King” would he played only in the Presence of representatives of the King. The statement aroused a Bt orm, from which the Dominion Party anticipated three seats in Natal in the coining election. Several Cabinet members were reported to be conferring with General Hertzog last week-end in an attempt to dear up the position.

Morning mood should he of joy. Health and peace without alloy: Smiles for children, wife and guest Alter hours of soothing rest. Morning mood is always thus, Free of languor, frowns and fuss. When for colds we ease assure (With Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. -*•