“A SELFISH, MEAN TIME.”
“Champagne and : a good time’ have, for a very large number of us, come to mean almost the same thing,” writes Air Hamilton. Fyfe in the “Daily Chronicle.” One need not lie a teetotaler to regret this false idea. There must be ‘something rotten in tiie state’ of those "'hose aspirations for ‘a good time’ are limited to the sort of life which that picture displays, n nat, when there is such a world about us, so full of wonder and delight and fun, to fix the Height of enjoyment at sitting in an over-heated, over-upholstered conservatory, at eating and drinking more than enough (for that’s what it comes to), at wearing clothes designed to express a claim to •superiority over the common herd 1 What a tolly! What a waste! At a moment in our national life too, when we should all be struggling against the forces of decay, to make luxury, softness ,self-indulgence our aim is pitiful. As for the desire to live that sort of life when millions among us are without what we consider bare necessaries of existence, that deserves a harsher epithet. A good time, ipdeed: A selfish, mean time, sav 1.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1929, Page 8
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