LOVE OF PLEASURE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 164, 29 July 1937, Page 7

LOVE OF PLEASURE

(Own Correspondent —

ESect of the Shorter Working Week OPINIONS OF- DEAN 1NGE

By Ait Mail.)

LONDON, June 23. Many Dominion representatives to the Imperial Conference in London heard an outspoken address at Winchester Cdthedral by Dr W. R. Inge, former Dean of St. PauPs. He said: "We are becoming a soft, pleasureloving uilenterprising race, flocking* into the great towns and leaving huge tracts of good land undeveloped. "The cry to-day is not so much for more pay as for shorter and shorter hours of work. The increasing hours of leisure are spent mainly itt amusements which involve no physical or mental effoi't wliatever—- in watching games, listenjng in for hburs oli end— and for the women there is dress and an unpleasant use of cosmetics." What they needed, said Dr. inge, waa a return to tlie old puritauism, without Jts harshness and narrowness, but with its plain living, hard working and hard thiuking. Befei'ring to the Empire, he said there were two things which tlie British flag stood for all ever the world. Tho tirat wus peace. "I plainly cannot uuderataiid liow any civihsed nation which icmeinbors the inexpllcablo horrors oi the Gfeat War can tepudiate thein and regard War as ari ennobling pUrsnit," he said "That is pare atavism, a return to barhnrisin of the worst kind." Tlie other thing Ihe British Hag stood tor Was liberty. There Jvas a dellbei'ate attempt in Uussia to tucchanise the standardj oi nle, to do away with 1'ree will and individuality. That was most dangerous, even though hiologists might tell tliotu that ifc Wolild not suceeed. They imist hold to their tailh as British citizcns and Cliristians, I