HORSE RACING DECRIED

Chronicle (Levin), 1 March 1948, Page 4

HORSE RACING DECRIED

Good Land Taken By Pleasure Seeking Deraocracy The -horse was a noble and usef ul animal, but horses kept-merely tQ pander the eraving for excitemept knd national gambling had little claim for existence in a world .where" milliohs were hungry and where children were growing up stunted in soul, mind and bbdy.- _ Expressing these sentiments m tef Anrivpw's Eresbvterian Ch'urch;

Levin, l^st night on the occasion of !the Harvest Festival Service, the i-Rev. A. Salmond, said that it was generally repognised that it was riglit for the voice of the Church tq be raised 'agaipst the eyictiqps Pf crofter tenants in the Highland glens. It was not right that land/ from which hard ..working farpiers "wrested a fneagre living should be turned.into grouse moors and deer parks ' "at the whim of a selfish pleasure seeking aristocracy." "It is not so generally recogqisob that the voice of the Churph today ; should be raised against the misuse of land by a selfish pleasure seekjng Democracy, which, in ifs demapd for the means of gambling, ! caused fertile dairying land to be itransformed into i-aeing studs and itraining stables." | A democracy could be as blind in its selfishness ' as the enfeebled ' aristocracy , it . superseded and it I c'ould be more subtly cruel. | A Christian was a person who liad. ' not allowed' selfishness to deaden his imagination in these matters, concluded Mr. Salmond.