SOCIAL EVILS

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 226, 12 June 1923, Page 7

SOCIAL EVILS

DISGRACEFUL CONDITIONS lb BRITAIN WHAT A NATIONAL APPEAL MIGHT DO DOCTRINE OF FORCE ABOVE RIGHT CONDEMNED By Telegha" !.— -Press Association. —COPYRIGHT. London, June 10. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at the Westbourne Park Church, said tiers were social conditions in Britain which were a disgrace to the world’s greatest Empire. Multitudes of people were living in infamous conditions, which could and ought to be removed. Britain spent ten thousand millions on the war, but had never spent a thousandth part of that amount upon remedying tho evils of the slums, li an appeal, similar to that of the war times, had been made to the nation’s patriotism for the redress of social evils, the nation would have responded and the surface of Britain would l.vve been transformed. Only tho Churches could arouse the national conscience to a sense of its social duties. Tho world’s real trouble at present was the enthrineme.it of force above right, a doctrine which appeared in domestic, social, and economic questions, as well as in the international field. Unless the world showed a new temper he despaired of civilisation. Aue.-N.Z. Cable Assn.