CONFIDENCE IN FUTURE

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21378, 22 January 1935, Page 10

CONFIDENCE IN FUTURE

: $ PEACE OF THE WORLD A FRENCHMAN'S HOPES Many years spent in the service of international peace have given to Dr. Jacques Demarquette, a distinguished French doctor of philosophy, and author, who is visiting Christchurch, a confidence that the world will soon be assured of peace. He remarked last evening that with the apparent conversion of Hitler and Mussolini it seemed that peace had a fair chance of defeating the forces of war.

"The flrorld crisis was due chiefly to lack of trust and confidence in the future " he said. "If the people of Europe can feel that they are not going to be blown to atoms or burnt to cinders then they may be able to resume business more brusquely, and there will be a reawakening. ■ "But I think the most important change of all will be a move toward confidence in life and in the future, and then the real problems of life may be tackled and with trust and hope, it will be no longer difficult to approach the religious problem. "Through speed and sensationalism and the living of fast lives, people have become detached from the spirit of the higher objects of huma"n life. People must return from high living and plain thinking to plain living and high thinking, «nd so get back to right values." The trend of Western life led people to live too physical lives, Dr. Demarquette said, and they paid so much, attention to their bodily satisfaction that attention was detracted from their real selves. Now that there was a new movement in education there was cause to be hopeful for the future; that sooner or later the world would have its house in order and be able to enjoy improvement and progress.