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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 203, 25 May 1936, Page 16

“The world to-day is in rather a mess and the greatest criticism that can be levelled at the people o£ New Zealand and of other countries Is that they have no vision,” said Professor J. Shelley in an address delivered under the auspices of the Workers’ Educational Association in Timaru. The speaker said that if the average person was asked what be was building up or what he was aiming for, it would be found that he had no vision. It should not. J,e taken for granted that anything called progress was necessarily right. They knew it was possible to fly through the air at 200 miles an hour compared with eight miles an hour on horseback, but he asked if this could be called progress when aeroplanes were employed to pour poison gas on humanity. People would have to begin to think constructively, said Professor Shelley. The golden age would come if people were equal lo it. Every individual had to face facts and ask himself what he was creating. That was why education was so important. The individual had lo think out a new vision and not shrink from the responsibility of putling inlo practice. It was not a matter of grabbing some piece of the globe, but of people saying, ‘‘Here are human ■beings; what can we do for them?”