CONQUEST OF FEAR

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 1, 2 January 1934, Page 7

CONQUEST OF FEAR

RECOVERY AND PEACE. Light Is Now Breaking in England. ARCHBISHOP'S BROADCAST. United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 10 a.m.) .' LOXDOX, January 1. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo Lang, in a national broadcast, said the conquest of fear was the first step toward recovery and peace. The year 1933 had been internationally disappointing. Those chattering about the next war and demanding preparations for it were germs of infection. Talking of war as inevitable might make it so. Everyone should support the League of Nations, which was the sole public barrier against fear and lawlessness. If the League dissolved, fear would reign unchecked and the collapse of civilisation might follow a clash. "Tliank God," continued Dr. Lang, "light is in England through the clouds of the past three years. There is reason to believe it is spreading."

The confidence of the manufacturer, farmer and trader proved that fear was being conquered and the conquest would be won if that sanity, patience and good will commended in the King's Christmas speech prevailed.

The establishment of unemployment centres showed the unprecedented growth of neighbourliness. All should resolve not to permit vested interests to delay the time when it would no longer be a mockery to describe the people's houses as homes.

NEW , YORK GAIETY. CROWDS IN TIMES SQUARE. NEW YORK, January 1. New York City last evening celebrated the gayest and wettest New Year since before prohibition. Liquor flowed freely in cabarets, hotels and restaurants. The police lifted the curfew in public places from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. With the theatres closed, merrymaking started early on Sunday. All the large hotels reported that all their tables were reserved. The Waldorf Astoria Hotel entertained 4000 guests and turned thousands away. The usual crowds thronged Times Square, singing and sounding horns. Hundreds of extra police were mobilised to handle the traffic.

NEW YEAR REVELS. LONDON CROWDS CELEBRATE. LONDON, January 1. The New York revels were shorn of much of their customary hilarity owing to New Year's Eve falling on Sunday, but it was a dry, pleasant night, and a large crowd assembled in St. Paul's Churchyard, which -is the Mecca of London Scots. Piccadilly Circus was also filled with noisy revellers. Ex-servicemen's bands played in Trafalgar Square. Whistles and motor hooters produced a popular compound, sending people home happy. A dense fog at Broxbourne aerodrome, Hertfordshire, prevented a parachutist jumping out the old year into the new, disappointing hundreds who had assembled there.