PUBLIC OPINION

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1929, Page 5

PUBLIC OPINION

A WORD FOR CHOCOLATE “Children will not be the only pe< to welcome a pronouncement that < colate is a cure; for many forms bodily disorder, and a valuable In food,” says the “Daily Chronic! Professor Neuberger, of Berlin, st: that it has been established that s erers from disorders like obesity, he trouble, and gout derive great be fit from an abundant supply of lii Tbps, while fat people in the p have been warned against the c sumption of chocolate, they 'are n urged on this high medical authority eat it in abundance, as it contains high percentage of lime. Chocola which contain nuts, vanilla aud ere; hold an even greater percentage lime.” j ' \ V :A-V ' GRETNA GREEN’S-RIVAL; The British Embassies,. used to rivals of Gretna 'Green for runaw marriages. The Channel was a me effective barrier to .pursuing pafei than the Scottish Border. In mi Victorian days 20 marriages a we took' place at the chapel attached the Paris Embassy—now the dinii room—and the majority were elop ments*. The couple were only requi ed to give 24 hours’ notice. No three weeks’ notice must be given b fore the knot can be tied. When tl 'Embassy Chapel was closed and a; ne church erected, several hundreds < couples found that their marriag were illegal. The, House of Commo: had refused to vote the purcha; (niioney for the . church, not 'technically British ground. N gbtiatio'ns -were temporarily delayei When completed a ; special' Act w ! passed to legalise the- marriages whir had tahon place in ; tho new churcl a-> ; . " “ WHEN I GO INTO FACTORIES.’ “ When Igo into mass . prbductic factories, and P see the nature of tl work that these children are' sent 1 when they leave school—these childrc have been taken out of that social e: vironment which has brought out a that is fine iii them if you have an; thing like a decent school and a decei staff of teachers—these children ai surrounded by everything that will hei them to expand, and when they leav school at fourteen, they are surrounde by an environment that shuts- them u absolutely, as far as giving them nr encouragement to learn anything ipoi or try to do anything bigger; the transition is so sudden, so. drastic,', j terrible' that - w.e have to-day to feco? nise from ( that" by, tl time the girls-bjr. boys have reached si? .teen they liaYeulbst all desire to,writ or read, and what., they have learnt's school, has been , wiped out as thoug a sponge had keen passed across slate.”—Miss Margaret Bondfield;,’" SANCTIONS’ •sf : ‘sThe teritiiL&tlthoritjf. ahdNSAnctio are often used; synonymously, ;but i may be an advantage if we ,werc t draw a'distinction between tlienV R the' term, ‘authority’ we - shall,: undei stand more particularly the'; exorcis of power to influence a decision, am to affect the''course.'of life in som way. It may ‘be an intellectual pro position, or it-inny be purely affective ; character, as ;‘d r n th< suggestions exercised by. tho>. presence of a crowd, or it may •be more of ; oonative nature, aS'inthe order o a superior officer to A 'skldier. Wlien however, the question' of the trutl of a proposition, or 'the right of ai exercise of authority is raised, we art dealing with the case in some degree from 1 the ethical. standpoint.. We thei approach the question ,of the nature of sanction. By ‘sanction’ we under, stand not what actually . exercise: power over life, but what justifies that exercise, A sanction is the.: jus tification of our holding a certain proposition or adopting a certain attitude of mind ori following a certain line of conjduot. The question o: sanction is "thus of the very - first , importance in ethics and in ..religion It enters to a greater or less, exten into all ; their' fosSor Lee - Wdolf,: of New College; Oxford. '* 'l'tt'ui >

DRAMATIC ART AND RELIGION.“There have -been ma'ny ■ attempts made within the Churches of recent years to revive . dramatic-art in the services of religion, but while" good work has been done in isolated cases, there has been no co-ordinating organisation by means, of which experiences might be pooled. This need is now met by the Religious Drama Council, which was formed at a meeting held at the Memorial Hall, London,” says the “New Chronicle.” “The purpose of the new council is to promote the development of drama with a spiritual purpose, and of a Christian type as a means of increasing interest in- relb crjous and ethnical ioeals, and imparting truth and quickening Christian sentiment. The council will be q cen* tre of reference for; .associations throughout the country, and will consolidate and extend the work already being done in particular areas,-and in the country generally. It will act as a link between (1) religious dramatic societies, and (2) general dramatic societies and public bodies and .Government Departments. Although ‘ the council was only formed last week, much spade-work has been put in by the committee set up by the February conference, and it is possible to indicate the lines along which it is hoped the council will endeavour to work. One important suggestion is that a handbook of religious drama should be published, to which recognised authorities on the several aspects of producing religious drama 1 should- be invited to contribute.” •' x