NEWS AND NOTES

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1932, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES

the yahoo.. “Great men in every generation have spoken to' the contemporaries in. the accents of the common people, but never in the argot of the contemporary bright young things,” writes Mr Douglas Jerrold. in the “Daily 'Mail.” “We a:© not here ..to express ourselves, but to help other people. Manners are the grammar of virtue. “Conventional ‘good manners’ may only be an imitation of this reality, but when good manners became a habit the Yahoo became a citizen. An age of bad manners is an age o'f bad citizens; an age v, hich treats unpleasant vices as jokes is an age without a sense of humour, and an age. without a sense of humour is an age which will never # learn to criticise) itself.” ;

LEISURE-A COMING PROBLEM. “The completely scientific state will also be. a leisure state ; and -we know, from experience that men find it much easier tp work well than to use leisure well,” writes Hugh V. Vowles, M.I. ’Mech.E., and Margaret Vowles, B.Hc.. in the “Hihbert Journal.” “No . doubt many will . prefer to perform useful work of some kind; nevertheless it is already clear that so far as routine industrial activities are concerned, there will be comparatively little for them to do. Even now our productive equipment is .sufficient to provide material comfort for. all if worked at full capacity for not more tlhau a few hours a day. ’Reorganisation jyiil necessarily mean a very wide margin of-leisure for everyone;, and at present it is difficult t.) say how that leisure will be used. The complete permeation of industry by science, involving th e attainment of higher educational levels for all,, and p educing a far .saner workaday environment, should be of considerable resistance in guiding men to sane use,!: of leisure also. For it, would teach ,bem ,to sec industry in its right, perspective, and themselves in their right j el. lion to industry and to one another.”