PRIVACITY A MODERN LUXURY

Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1928, Page 8

PRIVACITY A MODERN LUXURY

“Privacity will he, obviously, l he opposite of Publicity. 1 say it. will he because I do not think the thing at present exists. I conceive inyseW to be inventing it, offering it to a sorelytried world, which, I earnestly hope, will bail it as at least meeting a longfelt- want. . . • There is one radical dilference between publicity and privacity. which in the whole seems to me to be strongly in favour of the younger art.. Publicity is a necessity; privacitv is a luxury. Publicity pays lor itself, ( ,r it is no good and nobody wants it ; privacitv will have to he paid lor by those who seek to enjoy its benefits. Eventually there may come to be charitable (foundations for the purpose of providing privacitv for deserving persons who are in urgent need ol it and cannot alford to pay the price Hut the main thing in its favour, as a,, art. is that it is going to he so terribly difficult. All the tendencies ol the age arc against it. The privacity artist must light his way up the stream, while the publicity agent paddles easily down it. looking as it be was making twelve miles an hour ami actually by his own exertions making about two.”—Professor Poniard K. Mctlill University of Canada in his book. “The Privacitv Agent.”