HIGH THINKING

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 31 October 1928, Page 11

HIGH THINKING

LATE EDITION

PLAIN LIVING. REPLY TO DEAN INGE. HIS WORN! AS JOURNALIST. (United Presa Association —By Electric l'elcgrajt Copyright. J (Australian Press Association.; Received 12.40- p.m. to-day. LOjNDONj Oct. 30. Lord -Birkenhead, in the ‘‘Livening Standard,’' subnuts an incisive reply .to Dean Inge’s article. He says: “i. have admiration for Lean Inge, who is a scholar with great gilts as a journalist and very- clever without being insincere. Me has exploited the "gloomy Dean’ business to the uttermost. He isn’t particularly gloomy ; nis gloo.m is really a pose. Ascetic in appearance, he has a sense of humour "winch he has never permitted to be commercialised in his journalistic career. 1 should have thought that Dean Inge would have lamented tne squalid meanness which leaves the Prime Minister oi England £SOOO a year and no pension. The inadequacy of the judicial salaries is also a scandal and the Leader of the Opposition should receive a salary.. The Dean thinks it dignified to be content with a small income, yet I seem to remember the Dean justifying his own journalistic! activities .by the plea that he could not support his family on his diaoonal salary. Moreover, I have hehrd many reports from Fleet Street very gratifying to the. repudiation of the Rev. Dean as a man of business. He is an astute negotiator of the very valuable material he sells. I suggest that for the guidance of public men the Dean should inform us how much he himself would allow anyone to earn.” THE DEAN’S REPLY. Received 1.15 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Oct. 30. Dean Inge, who was shown the reply, wrote emphasising that there were no personalities in his article. The Socialists say 'that nobody ought to have more than £SOO a year. He suggested ten times more ought to content the high-minded servant of th©_ State. It does content our admirals, generals and bishops and would seem untold wealth to oar greatest scholars and scientivc discoveries. Our most fitted men ought to show us how to combine high thinking and plain living, which is not difficult.”.