MENTAL AND MORAL

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1932, Page 6

MENTAL AND MORAL

"I do not'know whether we have our minds too much oh money," said the Minister of Labour in the1 course of his address to the V.M.C.A. There is not wanting evidence that the money and material aspects of the world depression have exercised an hypnotic influence on many people. There is a widespread belief that some new system of currency, some change in the monetary system, and the substitution of something else for the gold standard will set everything right No one will deny that this is important, but it is a serious error to regard it as all-important. Gold as a standard has failed to do everything that was expected of it. Is it possible that any other standard j can be found that would be absolutely proof against manipulation? ' Similarly behind all measures of control and regulation there is the possibility that they may be defeated and turned, as some in the past have been, into dangers instead of safeguards, tit the end it is the moral and mental. attitude of the people which determines "the success or failure of legal measures. People (said Mr. Hamilton) were too much inclined to demand rights from each'other aud from the State. .Lot us give more duty to others' and to the Stato and we shall get oil much better. Instead of thinking of those who are better, off, let us think of those who are worse off and we shall bo satisfied.