SPEEDING CHARGE
ADJUSTMENT TO THE TEMPO OF THE TIMES.
“We are entering upon a period,'’ declared Mr Anthony Eden the other day, •'when the whole tempo of outlives will be radically altered." No sooner, comments the "‘Sunday Times," do we grow accustomed to the Tin Lizzie than we are faced with the tank; acceptance of the internal combustion engine is the signal for the appearance of the 400-mile-per-hour bomber. It is perhaps true that we have, some of us, been lagging behind the tempo of this brave new world. “Swift speedy Time, feathered with flying hours,” has left us behind; when we should have been forging ahead with Eyeston we have been sighing for the covered waggon. How delectable, we have thought, to go back even to that hyperbolical Rocket! And yet for each age contemporary speed has seemed too fast, and there must have been many complaints about Jehu's chariot. The trireme of one epoch is the Normandie or the Queen Mary of another. But always for the individual one problem remains. Let him, indeed, adjust his life to the tempo of his times. In his heart he must still, for the sake of his own integrity, keep the tempo 'of the one-horse shay.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1938, Page 11
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205SPEEDING CHARGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1938, Page 11
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