LIVING STANDARDS
Much is heard in the present time of the need for preserving the standard of living; a desirable aim if we are assured that everything in the standard is worth preserving. Is this certain? Speaking at Auckland, Archbishop Averill said: We have got to meet the economic difficulty by a greater simplicity of life, and in many cases that will be a blessing in disguise. Life has been too complex, too exacting, too dependent' upon outside stimulus and excitement. We must get back to the real in life —we have had far too much of the artificial and unreal. Within a generation the standard of living has undoubtedly been raised substantially—in a material sense. Yet he would be a bold man who would declare that the standard is now higher in"'every respect than it was formerly. Can we claim that, with all our material advantages, life is happier and more satisfying? Now our days are a succession of rushes from work to thrilling pleasure. There is little time for careful thinking, or contemplation of affairs. Certainly, life is more worrying. It seems to have lost the stability of former times. Material progress has been great, and is not to be despised, but it mus^ not be accepted as everything.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 138, 9 December 1930, Page 8
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211LIVING STANDARDS Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 138, 9 December 1930, Page 8
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