LIGHT AND LIFE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4590, 20 August 1923, Page 2

LIGHT AND LIFE.

Doctors tell us to walk on the sunny side of the road. One famous physician said the other day that to do so may add 10 years tp our life, writes ' the Countess of Warwick in the Pall Mall Gazette. It is part of the new recognition of what we owe to light. Light, space, cleanliness —these, in short, are the essentials for a healthy existence. Take industry. The enormous increase in pur capacity to produce is due, no doubt, largely to the development of machinery, but hardlv less to the fact that in place of dark, dismal, ill-ventilated mills and workshops, we are gradually putting up buildings with larger xi n( low’s, giving more natural light; witn greater space, giving more and purer air; and with glazed wall spaces, giving cleaner conditions. What we now have to do is to apply this principle more widely and more thoroughly. Healthy workers are better off than those who are repeatedly laid aside by illness ;. their spending power is greater, and close and conttant touch with their job makes for efficiency in output. So also does the brisk application to work shown by a cheery soul engaged under conditions which give happiness and comfort. Provision for the human needs of the worker pays, because it gives results which go far to assure industrial prosperity. And it pays all the way round. In such prospeiity the employer, the worker, and the wider community alike all have their share. At present industry in general is neither healthy nor prosperous. Here is one way, at least, ready to hand, of making it. so.