NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1932, Page 8

NEWS AND NOTES.

, GOODNESS’. ' “Goodness is distinguished from all actional values which are not intentional, in - that a person does not find it in himself, but must first create it out -of nothing. This does not mean that he is radically bad; no doctrine of original sin can be based upon it. ' Man, as the product -of conditions, is neither good nor bad, however much disposition, upbringing and milieu may smooth of make difficult the way to moral goodness." He can only become one or the other, in so far as he enters the - conflicts of' life and makeidecisions in their midst. Moral goodness is realised in him only a-s the value of rightly directed behaviour. In this ffense everyone builds entirely hi« own moral being—for good or bad. The orientation of our whole personal life according to the scale- of values is the objective ideal of goodness. Thur' it is that goodness forms a kind of fundamental moral claim, which is made upon everybody,' the Oougbt-t/i-Be in man is strictly universal., Heroism and moral greatness cannot he demanded for everybody; but it is demanded that, within the limits o* their ethos, all mim shall be good.”— Professor Nicolai Haytmann. “THIS MECHANICAL MARVEL.” • “The mechanical mairvel which' records and reproduces both words and 'pictures -is the instrument with wh : ch the speaking likenesises ,of centuries .will he preserved,” says Mr Will Hays, the head of the film industry in '"America-. “Never again shall' time wither or age destroy anything th-«*f •is imposing or exquisite or mem/haWc. ! Paderewski’s flashihg fingers w-i’l still . non nee upon keyboards and draw sweet thund-w from his piano -a hundred 'fears from now. AN achieveme”t delivers, its message to and sits for it', portrait in celluloid. The historv les-j sons of to-morrow' will 1 be taught from the new-reeih of to-day. Our ch’V dren’s children’s children will wnt/h Byrd sail for the* South, Pole and witness Lindbergh begin his flight into, immortalityV All great ard unus-nri men and women sooner or later nwreb through the‘lens of a -sound -re-'V-rdinh camera to Apple®,r, and talk to all,the ; peoples of earth. Everybody/"everywhere by grace of motion pictive enterprise' ;eventuaHly can meet fa°e to.facs?v every ' living person of ; interest or importance.”

■j .'• I ■ m “JOHN JONES, UNEMPLOYED.”

“We think and balk of the ‘marri-s’ of the 'workers’ arid the ‘nroletariat.-’ ” writes Colonel'John Buchan in a fn-e----word to “Work' "With the U’’.p,m Ployed,” a sixpenny - pamphlet issued bv the- National Council of Soria-1 Services, describing a series' of ' exrvxri- • iments ‘for helping the unemployed to help themselves “until the words become empty chunters; and we lose tohch with the”fa'cts behin d ’ them. Th '«■ ■ •State must, of course, dead with peo T '-'l? under' large, categories • for it the-'-e is the problem of the unemployed; but the private citizen wlio wishes to be-lp should '* keep his mind, fixed on John Jones and William Smith who are out of work, and whom, he knows all about. tragedy of the position lies less in the meagre livelihood to w-hieh hundreds of thousands are condemned than in the fact that, thev are losing their technical skill ttenwzh’ idleness, and having their mi”ds dulled and soured. They are de-enly malcontent with the situation, and are only too eager to find a wav out.”