THE GREAT UNREST

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 118, 12 February 1919, Page 7

THE GREAT UNREST

PROBLEM-" TO RESTORE THE CONTENTED MIND" ART AND THE PEOPLE

; 'By TeleEraph-Press Association. •'• -■'•':■ Christchurch, Febraary 11.' The solving of the industrial nnrest by. the aid of art was the theme touched upon at the School of Art prize-giving ceremony this evening, in turn by the Earl of Liverpool, Mr. F: G. Gurnsey, acting-director, and Mr. , Isitt,, M.P. Mr. Gurnsey said he would like employers at Christchurch and others to .visit the school during the class hours. Hβ believed . they would g° away feeling that they were neglecting to nialce use of an. institution that would help to solve eome of the problems of discontent that arose oftentimes out of the. fact that work has ■ become so machine-like in its methods that'it awakened no interest to the worker. .-■.■...■' . . ■ ■■'

j Mr. Isitt said that the whole, basis of .1 industrial. life nowadays tended to promote sameness and monotony. He asned his hearers.how they would like to spend their lives year in and year-out punching'eyelet holes or turning out nuts. He, , was an ■ enthusiastic Prohibitionist, but he was not at all sure if he were punching eyelet-holes air day he would not go away and-get drank. Commercialism, however, was , a 6tern' taskmaster; We, must have efficiency; ■ and- it. was here that the School of Art came in. If they would induce their boys and girls to take an interest in the school itvwould open for them wider interests which would be of immense valne to the community. Lord Liverpool thanked Mr. .Isitt very muoh indeed for. what'he had said. "He has set me thinking to-night," added His ■ Excellency. The war, was not ,over yet, but wao continuing, in yaripus parts of the world, and- it was. of the worst type— .it was fratricidal.;,ln Great Britain at the present time it was class. warfare, and he did not think it was.going to be confined to.-Great Britain... They.were going to let'loose a big copulaton, and by this he meant' not only .soldiers' but munition, workers and others, .to be tanel into, other pursuits than those which they had been following during the last four years. What would we have now? He thought that every .word. that' had been .uttered by Mr.. Isitt. that evening was trne. "We !have to consider that every class bf< society, has its aspirations, as-well as ourselves," said His Exc.lltncy, "and if we want to. settle this question satisfactorily, we must not view it from the one'side only."' • " -.