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Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1930, Page 6

MODERN CIVILISATION. Critics of modern civilisation are of tlie opinion that city life is the big fault. The city means that we lose the spirit of adventure; we lose our individuality and self-confidence., With the disappearance of our individuality and independence there came the city creature with the collective mind—suggestible, unstable, hysterical. The explanation of why the city brought about general deterioration is to be found in the phenomenon of crowd psychology. In towns we have* the curse of institutionalism—a man putting faith in institutions and not in himself. In town life we no longer say that we take ‘our pleasure sadly’; we look for the exciting and the hysterical. We look not for recreation, but distraction. The characteristics, haoits and modes of recreation of the creature of the city are very similar to those of an individual in a crowd. May it not make a difference if we can eliminate something of the crowd factor from city life?”—From “The Indictment of Modern Civilisation,” an address given by Dr G. F. Morton, Head Master of the Leeds Boys’ Modern Sk'hooL

Your child needs a bicycle to go to school on.- Buy one now at L. S. Ross’s Cycle Depot and teach the child to ride before school starts.—l2. Fluctuations of the current as experienced locally do not effect to any great extent the All Electric Majestci Radio set. A ballast tube overcomes this annoying condition and also protects the set against excessive voltage and the resultant burning out of transformers. Ring ’phone 112 and arrange for a demonstration. L. S. Ross, Majestic agent for Westland. — 10.