THE GREAT UNREST.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1919, Page 7

THE GREAT UNREST.

PROBLEM-"TO RESTORE THE: CONTENTED MIND." • ART AND THE PEOPLV Cliristchurch, Feb. 11. The solving of the industrial unrest by the aid of art was the theme touched upon at the School of Art prize-giving ceremony this evening, in turn by the Eurl of Liverpool, Mr. F. G. Gurnsey, acting-director, and Mr. Isitt, M.P. Mr. Gurnsey said he would like employers at Cliristchurch and others to visit the school during the class hours. He believed they would go away feeling that they were neglecting to make use of an institution that would help to solve some of the.problems of discontent that arose oftentimes out of the fact that work has become so machine-like in its methods that it awakened no interest to the worker. Mr. Isitt said that the whole basis of industrial life nowadays tended to promote sameness and monotony. He asked his hearers how they would like to spend their lives year in and year out punching eyelet holes ir turning out nuts. He was an enthusiastic Prohibitionist, but he wns not at all sure if he were punching eyelet holes all, day he would not go away and get drunk. Commercialism, however, was a stern taskmaster. We must have • efficiently, and it was here that the School of Art came in. If they would induce their boys and girls to take an interest in the school it would open for them wider interests whicli would be of immense value to the community. Lord Liverpool thanked Mr. Isitt very much indeed for what he had said. "He has set me thinking to-night," added His Excellency. Tlie war was not over yet, but was continuing in various parts of the world, and it was of the worst type—it was fratricidal. In Great Britain at the present time it was class warfare, and he did not think it was going to be confined to Great Britain. They were going "to let loose a big population, and by this ho meant not only soldiers but munition workers and others, to be turned into other pursuits than those which they had been following during the last four years. What would we have now? He thought that every word that had been uttered by Mr. Isitt that evening was true. "We have to consider that every class of society has its aspirations as well as ourselves," said His Excellency, "and if ive want to settle this question satisfactorily we must not view it from the one side only."