“THE MORAL OF A CAUSE CELEBRE.”

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1929, Page 8

“THE MORAL OF A CAUSE CELEBRE.”

“The Goddard case is not flattering to England,” says the “Manchester Guardian,” “or, perhaps, we should sav to London. The case has thrown a remarkable and a somewhat garish li'ht on the way in which a considerable number of our gilded youth—and their gilded elders—spend, or waste their time. Mrs Meyriek’s clubs will provide a text for the oratory of the street corner and a good many other nlaces for many a long day; the ‘idle rich’ were never seen to less advantage. Here are people who must dance and drink at all hours and at all costs —jit. the cost of ten pounds or so lor a hottle of champagne, as well as the cost of breaking the lay; society so bored with everyday life that it must attempt to introduce into England a typo of enjoyment which is supposed to be ‘Parisian,’ but which seems to most intelligent persons, including those who know Paris, merely stupid and dreary. Of course a policy of suppression is of no use. History is conclusive on that point; you cannot stop foolish people lrom finding ways ol wasting their lives, their money, and monev which is not theirs.”