E MOTIONAL DEBAUCUES.
“When we have paid Lindbergh every kind of honour for doing alone what Sir John Alcock did, and Mr Chamberlain has since done in company, wo can surely claim that there is a definite boundary between the prai.se due to famous men and the gushing hysteria of a modern triumph. It is not necessary to suggest that emotional debauches of this kind are evidence of a decay in the, human, fibre. What happens now is that crowds are more easily gathered and much larger than they used to he. Moreover, news, instead of trickling about the country in devious, dilatory ways, comes flooding upon everybody from several sources at the same time.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1927, Page 1
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115EMOTIONAL DEBAUCUES. Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1927, Page 1
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