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DEMANDS OF ECONOMIC PROCESS. People sometimes criticise, a little priggishly, the amusements of the less prosperous —the football pools, a certain kind of film, the public house, writes Mr J. G. Lockhart in the “Listener.” But surely it is right to describe them as “symptomatic of a profound boredom from which they offer a meretricious escape.” They are also symptomatic of something else; they are symptomatic of a society which has somehow lost its way and got its values hopelessly confused, a society in which the real purposes of human life have been subordinated to the demands of the economic process. As the report of the Oxford Conference on Church. Community and State puts it “‘Human life is falling to pieces because it has tried to organise itself into unity on a Isecularistie and humanistic basis, without any reference to the Divine Will and Power above and beyond itself.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1939, Page 7
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151CONFUSED VALUES Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1939, Page 7
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