A LABOUR VIEW OF MR BALDWIN

Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1927, Page 1

A LABOUR VIEW OF MR BALDWIN

Tliat Mr Baldwin is a really attractive person no render of ms speeches will ho inclined to deny. He takes himself with great seriousness, vet he is able to remain really humide. At the root of him is a deep affection for elemental and simple things the ploughed field, the song of the bird, the well-worn and ever-fresh 'las-

sic allusion, the school whose inability to teach left one with a sense ot its magic, the church whose foundations he has been careful not to examine too closely. About these, and about his friends, about I.lie colleagues with whom and under whom he has served, lie can write feelingly, and not seldom, as in the moving tribute to Mr Bnnar Law, u iilli a real distinction of phrasing, lie really loves England in a large and generous way. lie is really anxious to do the right, as he sees (lie right.”—Mr Harold J. Laski. in the “ Labour Magazine.” ART AND ARTISTS. “There are other ways for the painter of pictures lo make a living than by selling them. He lms an immense public interested in his work, and it is capable of immense expansion—the entire middle class to which he himself belongs, a public as capable of artistic appreciation as any that ever was, but not rich enough to buy pictures except those which cost Horn five to fifteen pounds. Now, I can conceive nothing worse for the artistic profession than that it should limit its production to works that take so short a time to do as to make them a workable proposition at such a price. —Mr AValtei Bayes, headmaster of the Westminster School of Art.