AFTER THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1916, Page 2

AFTER THE WAR.

FAR LESS LUXURY, London, April 15. Mr. Walter Long has been telling an American journalist—Mr. F. A. Wrav, of the New York Tribune—how the war is affecting life in England—as he pees it. The President of the Local Government Board sees old boundary lines disappearing; neither socially, politically, nor industrially will the country be the same after the war. "A 1 our standards of life are changing," lie told the interviewer. "The nation must go back to the simple life, to the less luxurious methods of our ancestors. We shall have to abolish all useless luxury; we must dispense with every form of extravagance. "This 'war is going to be the groat leveller. Money must no longer be. the criterion of power. Wealth must no longer be the proof of superiority. Henceforth the citizens of this country have to pull together. "Already we see signs of the change in living that the war has brought. We have changed all oui' habits in eating and drinking. We no longer buy expensive clothes or expensive cars. The man who formerly would not go to dinner at the Ritz unless driven there by his own car now contentedly takes a penny omnibus. Another man who would not be seen smoking anything but expensive cigars now walks the streets smoking a pipe." "Do you thinly that peace will bring about a social upheaval which is likely to cause a clash between Capital and Labor?" "I do not," said Mt. Long, "Agonising as the war is, yet in many ways I believe it will act as a social rogenerator and healer. Speaking broadly, I believe the relations between Capital and L»• bor are exceedingly harmonious at present, and I see no reason why peace should alter this state of affairs; in fact, I think, it will intensify it."